LEARNING TARGETS AND SUCCESS CRITERIA FOR STUDENT CLARITY +
About the Learning Targets and Success Criteria Workshop
Student Learning Targets: After the Essential Standards are “unwrapped,” the next step is to write Student Learning Targets by rewording the standards into “kidspeak,” using age-appropriate student language, without losing the rigor and intent of the actual standard so that nothing is “lost in translation.”
Success Criteria: After identifying the student-worded Learning Targets, educators look again at both the “unwrapped” Essential Standard(s) and the student-worded Learning Target(s) and think: “What would students need to show or provide as credible evidence that they had ‘hit’ the Learning Target?” They then write these Success Criteria in specific verb-noun phrases.
Recommended Preparatory Workshop:
“Unwrap” the Essential Standards for Teacher Clarity
Participants in this Learning Targets and Success Criteria Workshop will benefit from first experiencing how to “unwrap” Essential Standards as preparation for writing standards-aligned Student Learning Targets and Success Criteria.
What You Will Experience and Create Through Explanation, Examples, and Practice
Part 1: Write Student Learning Targets
See the “Big Picture” of the Integrated Teaching & Learning System©
Learn How “Unwrapping” Essential Standards, Learning Targets, and Success Criteria Together Build the Unit of Study Foundation
See the Teacher Clarity Research Related to Learning Targets
See Educator-Created and A.I.-Generated Examples of Student Learning Targets in Multiple Content Areas
Activity 1: Write a Standards-Aligned Student Learning Target of Choice in Any Content Area
Part 2: Align Success Criteria to Student Learning Targets
- What Success Criteria Are and Why They Are Essential in Communicating to Students How to “Hit” the Learning Target
- See Hattie’s Dramatic Research Related to Success Criteria
- See Educator-Created and A.I.-Generated Examples of Success Criteria in Multiple Content Areas
- Activity 2: Write Objectively Worded Success Criteria to Match Student Learning Target
Virtual Workshop: Two Hours
Who Should Attend
District and School Leaders, PK-12 Classroom Educators, Content Area Coordinators and Specialists, Instructional Coaches
For More Information
VOLUME ONE: BEGINNING THE UNIT STRUCTURE
CHAPTER 5: Write Learning Targets for Student Clarity
CHAPTER 6: Align Success Criteria to Student Learning Targets
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What Participants Are Saying About the Learning Targets and Success Criteria Virtual Workshop
“Thank you so much for sharing your wisdom and strategies with us! We are super excited about using our new learning targets and success criteria!”
“It really struck me that the teacher and learner are involved. It puts them on the same page. That is very important”.
“Writing standards in ‘kidspeak’ so that student, and teachers, have clarity really resonated with me.”
“I think rewording the standard to a 'kid friendly' version without losing the rigor is very powerful. This was a great training.”
“I liked how, as an Environmental Science teacher, I can combine Bio and Earth Science to help my success criteria really focus on learning to help move students ahead.”
“My biggest take away is that alignment and intention (of standards, learning targets, and success criteria) is hugely important in helping our students achieve.”
“The final implementation of all this should definitely make the classroom instruction flow easier.”
“Creating the success criteria gave us another opportunity to look at the learning targets to make sure we are on point with them.”
“I feel like I'm about to be obsessed with learning targets! Even for ME, it is super clarifying. Clarity is key and I think this will make for a super focused classroom!”
“I feel like it makes me really focus on the important concepts and skills I want to see in the lesson or unit I'm teaching.”
“With a clear understanding of a standard, how to ‘unwrap’ it or break it down, identifying the specific learning targets and success criteria, teachers can better help students take agency over their own learning and achieve greater levels of understanding and mastery.”
“Yes! The clarity in learning targets is fabulous!”