The final “timeless essentials” of the Integrated Teaching and Learning System© are Standards-Aligned Learning Tasks, “hands-on, minds-on” learning experiences, distributed throughout a unit of study, that progressively develop and reveal students’ understanding of the Essential Standards’ “unwrapped” concepts, skills, and Big Ideas that form the foundation of each unit of study. These interdisciplinary tasks enable students to simulate and take part in real-life or imaginary situations that both challenge and engage them while developing their critical and creative thinking, communication, collaboration, problem-solving skills, and the other attributes that are so necessary for all students to use daily in the real world.

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STANDARDS-ALIGNED STUDENT LEARNING TASKS