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Current Comfort Level with Learning TargetsTake a sticky note.

Write your name on it.

Self assess your current comfort level of your personal knowledge on writing daily learning targets.

1- don’t think I am doing them correctly.

3- I think my learning targets are solid but could be better.

5- Rock Star: I am confident I have this down.

Unpacking Standards to

Develop Learning

TargetsStandards, Learning Targets, Success

Criteria and Formative Assessment.

Wendy Zdeb-RoperMichigan Association of

Secondary School PrincipalsExecutive Director

wendyz@michiganprincipals.org

Follow @massp on TwitterFind me on LinkedinJoin #masspchat Mondaynights from 8-9pm

Session Learning Targets

First Chunk of Learning…

I can unpack a standard.

I can create an effective learning target.

I can identify appropriate learning targets.

Why Unpack the Standards?

Unpacking a standard is done to develop a deeper understanding

of the standard for planning, instruction, and assessment.

“Unpacking”

“A simple process to make standards manageable.”

- Larry Ainsworth

What is

Unp

ackin

g?

The analysis of standards and indicators to determine exactly what students need to do:

- Know (concepts)

- Be able to do (skills)

- Through particular context or topic (selected learning activities)

How to Unpack a Standard

1. Underline key concepts (important nouns)

2. Circle skills (verbs)

3. Identify the particular context or topic (selected learning activities)

4. Represent the “unwrapped” concepts and skills in a bulleted list

Represent Unwrapped Concepts

Write narrative & other creative texts

Recount events or short sequence

Describe actions, thoughts, feelings

Use temporal words to signal order

Provide closure

Group

Practice

“The most effective teaching and the most meaningful student learning happen when teachers design the right learning target for today’s lesson and use it along with their students to aim for and assess understanding.” Moss & Brookhart

Learning Targets

Learning Target…

Describes intended learning outcome

Guides student learning

Specific to the day’s lesson “in chunks”

Written in “student friendly” language

Written from CCSS, MI GLECs or National Standards

What Information Does It Need to Work Effectively?

Informs Your Decision MakingGuides you every mile and turn.

Uses language you understand to get you to exactly where you need to go.

Knows exactly where you are.

Alerts you to the challenges ahead and provides strategies to help you deal with them.

Doesn’t “grade” your driving- “it recalculates”.

Creates a Learning Partnership

Cannot do the driving for you, but it monitors your progress and feeds you forward.

Only works when you are actually doing something…using its insights and information to drive more effectively toward your destination.

You have to continually self-assess- monitor your driving against the criteria provided to make sure you are on the right track.

Characteristics of a Learning Target

Describes exactly what student’s will learn in today’s lesson.

Written in student friendly language that students can understand.

From the point of view of students who have yet to master the content, skill or process that makes up the target.

Is connected to the performance of understanding from today’s lesson.

For Today’s Lesson

Learning targets have an expiration date- they are only good for one lesson.

Supports our Students…

What will I be able to do at the end of today’s lesson?

What will I have to learn & understand so that I can use this information to do it?

How will I be asked to show that I can do it?

How well will I have to do it?

To Answer….

Reflect:

How do you create a clear

learning target?

Start with the Standard

Identify the essential parts of the objective or standard- the “Unpacked Standard”

Each essential part (unpacked concepts) can become a learning target

Put each target into “student friendly” language

Ensure that each target is written “in chunks” for today’s lesson

Your Turn

How did you do?

Session Learning Targets

First Chunk of Learning…

I can unpack a standard.

I can create an effective learning target.

I can identify appropriate learning targets.

“Learning targets make the difference, from a student’s point of view, between complying with teachers’ requests and pursuing their own learning.” Moss & Brookhart

Learning Targets Need to Be…

Posted daily

Shared with students at the start of each lesson

Revisited during the lesson and at the end

Visible from anywhere in the classroom

Measurable, actionable

Formatively assessed

Guide for Effective Learning Targets

Work with your elbow partner to…

Select one of the ineffective targets and correct it to make it effective.

Select one of the somewhat effective targets and correct it to make it effective.

Proof your newly created targets against the checklist for creating learning targets.

Session Learning Targets

First Chunk of Learning…

I can unpack a standard.

I can create an effective learning target.

I can identify appropriate learning targets.

Final Word Activity

Final Word Protocol

Useful for short reads, when there is a need for your group to learn from examining research and written materials together.

Session Learning Targets

Second Chunk of Learning…

- I can ensure that my learning targets include a measurable student outcome (success criteria).

My success criteria will provide students with a clear understanding of what they need to know,

learn, or do at the conclusion of the lesson.

LT to Success Criteria

How can we take the learning target and ensure that it is measurable for both students and teachers?

How can we provide opportunities for students to assess their progress toward mastery without a penalty (of a grade)?

How can we gauge where students are on their journey toward mastery and use that information to guide our next steps of instruction?

Success Criteria

The student should be able to say: If I can do this, then I will know that I have reached my learning target.

The teacher should be able to say: If my students can do this, then I will have strong evidence that they’ve mastered the learning target.

Revisit the LT to Include Success Criteria

Session Learning Targets

Second Chunk of Learning…

- I can ensure that my learning targets include a measurable student outcome (success criteria).

My success criteria will provide students with a clear understanding of what they need to know,

learn, or do at the conclusion of the lesson.

Building Blocks of Effective Instruction

Lessons Built on State Standards

Learning Targets- beginning, throughout & end of lesson

Activating Prior Knowledge

Intellectual Student Engagement

Feedback to Students Throughout

Activities Aligned to Learning Targets

4 Essential Questions When Planning Instruction

1. What is it we want all students to learn?

(Michigan and Common Core Standards)

2. How will we know when each student has learned it?

(Formative, interim & summative assessments)

3. What happens when a student doesn’t learn it?

(Interventions)

4. What happens when a student already knows it?

(Enrichment)

“Learning targets have no inherent power. They enhance

student learning and achievement only when

educators commit to consistently and intentionally sharing them with students.”

Educational Leadership - March 2011

Wendy Zdeb-RoperMichigan Association of

Secondary School PrincipalsExecutive Director

wendyz@michiganprincipals.org

Follow @massp on TwitterFind me on LinkedinJoin #masspchat Mondaynights from 8-9pm

Current Level of Comfort with Learning Targets

Re-assess your current comfort level w/your personal knowledge on writing daily learning targets. Move your sticky if your learning today has impacted your initial placement on the continuum.

1- I still don’t feel prepared to do them correctly.

3- I think I can do “ok” but could be better.

5- I am confident I have this down.

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