An approach to designing a curriculum or unit that begins with the end in mind and designs toward that end.

• Activating Prior Knowledge

• Backward Design

• Differentiation

• Scaffolding

When we make connections between what new material is being presented with students' existing schema/experiences.

• Formative Assessment

• Backward Design

• Activating Prior Knowledge

• Feedback

The learning environment, instructional strategies, learning tasks, materials, accommodations, assistive technology, prompts, and/or scaffolding that are deliberately selected or designed to support learning of the central focus.

• Cooperative Learning

• Student Engagement

• Backward Design

• Planned Supports

Sets of knowledge, skills, or behaviors that learners are expected to know, understand, and/or perform as a result of learning.

• Objectives

• Evaluation (Summative Assessment)

• Student Self-Assessment

• Differentiation

Students evaluating their own work and learning progress.

• Evaluation (Summative Assessment)

• Student Engagement

• Student Self-Assessment

• Formative Assessment

When groups of learners work together to process meaning, make personal connections, and listen to others' interpretations

• Cooperative Learning

• Feedback

• Student Engagement

• Activating Prior Knowledge

The "umbrella term" for ALL activities undertaken by teachers and by their students that provide information to be used as feedback to modify the teaching and learning activities.

• Formative Assessment

• Assessment (general)

• Evaluation (Summative Assessment)

• Student Self Assessment

When teacher guides student(s) in their learning process and gives them the direction they need to reach the target or goal of the lesson.

• Differentiation

• Scaffolding

• Backward Design

• Feedback

A wide variety of methods that teachers use to conduct in-process evaluations of student comprehension, learning needs, and academic progress during a lesson, unit, or course.

• Formative Assessment

• Evaluation (Summative Assessment)

• Feedback

• Scaffolding

When teachers break up a learning experience, concept, or skill into discrete parts, and then give students the assistance they need to learn each part

• Differentiation

• Student Engagement

• Scaffolding

• Learning Targets