Learning Targets

Which of the following is true?

• Improving the teaching-learning process requires everyone in the school.

• Improving the teaching-learning process requires only teachers and students.

• Improving the teaching-learning process requires students to determine the learning target for the day.

• Improving the teaching-learning process requires teachers and admin to determine specific learning targets.

What are the three components that a lesson should contain?

• Learning target

• Performance of understanding

• Rubrics

• Success criteria

Which of the following statements is not true?

• Learning targets are the same as instructional objectives.

• Learning targets are written from students' points of view.

• Teachers share learning targets with students by telling, showing, and engaging in a performance of understanding.

• The right learning target for today's lesson builds on previous lessons' learning targets.

True or False: Learning targets help promote mastery learning among students.

• True

• False

True or False: It is not a learning target unless both the teacher and the students aim for it during the day's lesson.

• True

• False

How often should a learning target be used?

• It is planned for a week's worth of lessons

• It is planned for one day's lesson

• It is planned for a year of instruction

• It is planned monthly

Choose the best response. What is a performance of understanding?

• A learning experience that allows teachers to share information with students in a time efficient manner.

• A learning opportunity where students engage in collaborative group work with their peers.

• A learning experience that deepens student understanding and produces evidence of where students are in terms of the day's learning target.

A performance of understanding allows both teachers and students to gather information and use it to improve work quality

• after a lesson

• before a lesson

• during a lesson

• several days later

Effective ways to illustrate learning targets include

• sharing examples.

• using a story or scenario known to students.

• providing examples of red herrings.

• using students' real-life experiences.

Choose the best response. To hit the bull's-eye for the day's lesson, students need success criteria or

• rubrics

• focus on grades

• look-fors to allow learning to be visible

• self-assessments