Learning Targets
$26.95
What students are actually doing during today’s lesson is both the source of and yardstick for school improvement efforts. This resource will help you improve your teaching expertise and empower all students as stakeholders in their own learning!
Description
Improving student learning and achievement happens in the immediacy of an individual lesson, or it doesn’t happen at all. Learning targets — a lesson-sized chunk of information and skills that students will come to know deeply — are the key to making today’s lesson meaningful. This practical resource:
- Situates learning targets in a theory of action that students, teachers, and administrators can use to unify their efforts to raise student achievement and create a culture of evidence-based, results-oriented practice
- Provides strategies for designing learning targets that promote higher-order thinking and foster student goal setting, self-assessment, and self-regulation
- Explains how to design a strong performance of understanding, an activity that produces evidence of students’ progress toward the learning target
- Shows how to use learning targets to guide summative assessment and grading
- Includes planning forms, a classroom walkthrough guide, a lesson-planning process guide, and guides to teacher and student self-assessment
