An Exploration of Two Approaches for
Writing Student Learning Targets explains some of the benefits for educators in using a proficiency model:
Not exact matches
As music therapists, we have the unique opportunity to compose educational songs,
write learning chants, and use musical cues to
target goals that
students are having difficulty meeting.
When
students respond in
writing to what they
learn and share it, teachers can
target the gaps and keep them on the right track.
When
students respond in
writing to what they
learn each day, teachers can
target the gaps and keep them on the right track!
With these questions, you can assign
students content area reading, and then have them
write about this content to show their
learning, all while
targeting specific literacy objectives.
- Fun games to get the
students to speak in the
target language (see explanation under the slide)- A listening activity on what you saw and did not see at the zoo - Vocabulary slides with lovely pictures - Plenty of mini-whiteboard games on colours with animals and on opinions about animals - Grammar explanation on negative forms and verbs of opinion - Several
writing activities about your favorite restaurant - Survey activity on likes and dislikes - Translation exercises - A
writing activity to use longer sentences and verbs of opinion + infinitive - Grammar explanation on the partitive with worksheets to practice - Grammar explanation on infinitives and conjugating - er verbs - A lesson on infinitives and how to conjugate - er verbs - A worksheet explaining the steps of conjugating an - er verb - A fun mime the verb game - A mini-whiteboard game to practise conjugating - er verbs - Grammar explanation on numbers and quantities -
Learn high numbers to be able to give prices and quantities - Mini-whiteboard activities about numbers and quantities - Games with prices - Dialogue worksheets to build up to role - play activity - A number worksheet - Put the dialogue back in order worksheet to help with role - play activity - A grammar explanation of «il y a» and «il n» y a pas» - Grammar explanation «on peut + infinitive» and other grammar revision - A song with lyrics created and sang by me with a link to the Youtube video - Vocabulary building activities to teach directions - A grammar explanation on the imperative with exercises to practice - A grammar worksheet on the imperative in French - An iPhone activity - A grammar explanation on modal verbs - A grammar explanation of prepositions with «de» and exercises to practice - A grammar worksheet on prepositions in French I hope you will enjoy my resources and if you have a question on a particular slide or activity, please do not hesitate to contact me or leave me a message.
Once you have your
learning targets in
writing, you can pair them with appropriate instruction, scaffolding, and tasks that will support
students in meeting them.
Well before
students began planning and
writing their essays, I shared the
learning targets with them.
Learning targets are typically
written in
student - friendly language, so they can understand the goals of instruction.
One of our readers, a middle school language teacher, has also
written us to say that she enlists help from her
students in
writing goals — their collaboration helps them buy in and feel a sense of ownership for their
learning targets.
Students demonstrate progress towards
targets in ANY class (i.e. if they
write a biology paper, they could show progress towards both ELA & biology
learning targets).
In my effort to support classroom teachers in ensuring that all
students meet Common Core State Standards I carefully select
learning targets and
write lesson plans.
National Summer
Learning Association's Rachel Gwaltney writes that ESSA presents numerous opportunities for schools to use both federal and state funding «to help drive student success with targeted summer activities,» including funding opportunities for «out - of - school learning activities
Learning Association's Rachel Gwaltney
writes that ESSA presents numerous opportunities for schools to use both federal and state funding «to help drive
student success with
targeted summer activities,» including funding opportunities for «out - of - school
learning activities
learning activities.»
By
writing understandable
learning targets,
students have a framework to process feedback, engage in
learning, and take ownership.
Thus, even when a teacher can anticipate a
student will not be proficient, if the items are
written in a diagnostic way, the
student work helps reveal what confusion or misinformation the
student has about the essential
learning target.
By
writing the assessment around
learning targets, the teachers can identify for each
learning target which
students are or are not yet proficient.
This means that teachers need to
write learning targets in terms that
students will understand.
Or provide
students with a
written list of
learning targets described in
student - friendly language, such as,
From the questions they ask to the comments they
write on
student work, from the rubrics they devise to the
learning targets they state, teachers inform and engage
students about the next steps they need to take to improve and achieve.
Second, we also suggest reviewing a few samples from different disciplines as this may prompt thinking about ways to
write objective statements, collect data / information, assess
student learning, and tiered
targets.
FORMATIVE FEEDBACK, verbal and
written, helps
students understand how close they are to the
learning targets and what they can do to move closer.
LEARNING TARGETS written in student - friendly language are used to help students understand what they are learning, how to reach the target, and what success looks like once the target is
LEARNING TARGETS written in
student - friendly language are used to help
students understand what they are
learning, how to reach the target, and what success looks like once the target is
learning, how to reach the
target, and what success looks like once the
target is reached.
Other than
writing a
learning target statement on the board, how do teachers in your building currently share
learning targets with their
students?
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.
And this element of skill training appears to be crucial; as Catalano and colleagues (2004)
write, «To produce meaningful effects on specific
target behaviors, it also appears necessary to include opportunities in social competence promotion programs for
students to practice and apply
learned skills to specific, relevant social tasks (Hawkins and Weis 1985).»