Learning Targets: Helping Students Aim for Understanding in Today's Lesson

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Mastering lessons through learning targets.

Learning Targets would be perfect for teachers who want to understand how to help their students achieve better. The book emphasizes lesson-sized chunks of information called learning targets, which help students understand what they need to know in each lesson and what they will learn as they progress. Learning Targets provides teachers with guidance on how to set learning targets that foster student self-regulation and higher-order thinking, and then evaluate student progress towards these learning targets. With practical tips, planning forms, and assessment guides, Learning Targets is a valuable tool for every teacher who wants to make a difference in student learning.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Learning Targets: Helping Students Aim for Understanding in Today's Lesson

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ISBN: 9781416614418
Publisher: ASCD
Date of Publication: 2012-07-02
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Personal Development
Related Topics: Personal Development, Psychology
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In Learning Targets, Connie M. Moss and Susan M. Brookhart contend that improving student learning and achievement happens in the immediacy of an individual lesson--what they call "today's lesson"—or it doesn't happen at all. The key to making today's lesson meaningful? Learning targets. Written from students' point of view, a learning target describes a lesson-sized chunk of information and skills that students will come to know deeply. Each lesson's learning target connects to the next lesson's target, enabling students to master a coherent series of challenges that ultimately lead to important curricular standards. Drawing from the authors' extensive research and professional learning partnerships with classrooms, schools, and school districts, this practical book situates learning targets in a theory of action that students, teachers, principals, and central-office administrators can use to unify their efforts to raise student achievement and create a culture of evidence-based, results-oriented practice. It provides strategies for designing learning targets that promote higher-order thinking and foster student goal setting, self-assessment, and self-regulation. It explains how to design a strong performance of understanding, an activity that produces evidence of students' progress toward the learning target. It shows how to use learning targets to guide summative assessment and grading. Learning Targets also includes reproducible planning forms, a classroom walk-through guide, a lesson-planning process guide, and guides to teacher and student self-assessment. What students are
 

Mastering lessons through learning targets.

Learning Targets would be perfect for teachers who want to understand how to help their students achieve better. The book emphasizes lesson-sized chunks of information called learning targets, which help students understand what they need to know in each lesson and what they will learn as they progress. Learning Targets provides teachers with guidance on how to set learning targets that foster student self-regulation and higher-order thinking, and then evaluate student progress towards these learning targets. With practical tips, planning forms, and assessment guides, Learning Targets is a valuable tool for every teacher who wants to make a difference in student learning.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.