If we hope to construct
enduring understanding in our students, it's critical that, now more than ever, we know their strengths and interests.
The ultimate remedy will be revising excessive grade - level curriculum expectations by creating more opportunities
for enduring understanding through discovery and student - centered learning.
You are encouraged to share the learning outcomes and
enduring understandings with students to explicitly frame the anticipated learning objectives of the stage.
Nutley Public Schools has engaged in an effort to increase student success with a readers» workshop language arts focus that enables young readers to read independently while acquiring crucial and
enduring understandings of key reading concepts.
Smart, purposeful engagement strategies that all teachers can use to expand students» cognitive capacity, increase motivation and effort, and build deep,
enduring understanding of content.
Essential questions that sound
like enduring understandings are not exciting and do not DRIVE the learning, which brings me to my next point.
Think about
the enduring understands, learning targets, standards etc, that you want students to target and achieve by the end of the unit.
Craft essential questions and
enduring understandings to frame your Mission.
When deciding what to teach and how to teach it, teachers often look for «
enduring understandings» and ask themselves the question, if you meet your students in 50 years, what is the one thing you hope they have retained from your classroom?
Join the thousands of teachers and school districts throughout the U.S. and internationally who are using these innovative resources to engage students in thinking about important fundamental ideas in science and mathematics that make up the building blocks of
enduring understanding.
Using Backwards Design, coaches and teachers developed units driven by content standards, essential questions, and
enduring understandings.
This work began with the identification of
enduring understandings (Wiggins & McTighe, 2005) for each content area and essential learning targets for the elementary (K 4), middle (5 ‐ 8), and high school (9 ‐ 12) grade spans.
Teachers must have time to explore the materials, internalize
the enduring understandings of each lesson, and plan for how to meet the needs of every student.
Essential questions that sound like
enduring understands are not exciting and do not DRIVE the learning, which brings me to my next point.
In this book, Carol Ann Tomlinson and Jay McTighe guide readers in thinking about what it means to establish classrooms based on curriculum and instruction designed to ensure that each student is fully supported in developing
the enduring understandings of a discipline and in mastering its critical knowledge and skills.
The beauty of the CCSS is that they allow curriculum to progress at a pace conducive to student inquiry, exploration, and eventually,
enduring understanding.
In 1961, composer John Cage (1912 — 1992) famously referred to the White Paintings as airports for lights, shadows, and particles, establishing
an enduring understanding of the series as receptive surfaces that respond to the world around them.
Valor's academic model is designed to engage scholars with rich, high - quality content and to develop the core knowledge, skills, and
enduring understandings they need to be successful at Valor and beyond.