Learning Intentions
21st C. KSDs
Key Terms
Bloom's Verbs!
What's that skill?
100

The most common way North American teachers convey learning intentions

What is a rubric?

100

English, Mathematics, Science, Arts...

What is Core Subject Area Knowledge?


100

What students should know and be able to do in major content areas.

What are standards?

100

Constructs, assembles, integrates...

What is Synthesis?

100

Examine the last five hundred years of death rates and birth rates. What patterns do you notice?

What is Analysis?

200

When a teacher and students write a learning objective down and then ignore it for the rest of the period

What is a wallpaper objective?

200

Networking tools, media literacy, digital tech...

What are Technology Skills?

200

An example of a finished student product or performance that has already been evaluated.

What is an exemplar, model, or anchor?

200

Summarizes, estimates, interprets, rephrases...

What is Comprehension?

200

Examine three different wartime conflicts. What is common among them, and what do those commonalities suggest about the nature of warfare more broadly?

What is Synthesis?

400

Model/exemplar papers, What Not to Write, Strengths & Weaknesses Discussions are examples of

What are practical ways to help students understand learning intentions?

400

Interpersonal, teaming, managing conflict...

What are Collaborative Skills?

400

A method of identifying content and grade-level learning goals that can be measured to document learning.

What are Student Learning Objectives?

400
Lists, recalls, states, defines...

What is Knowledge?

400

Given what you know about basket-weaving, what is likely to happen if you tried to weave a basket with shoelaces?

What is Inference?
800

One reason that rubrics are problematic

What is words are not precise? What is assessing product rather than offering an improvement path? What is a collection of success criteria is not the same as k?

800

Creativity, metacognition, decision making...

What are Cognitive Skills?

800

Statements of student performance that should be demonstrated at the end of an instructional unit.

What are educational objectives?

800

Uses, solves, applies, shows...

What is Application?

800

Suppose you were the president and had to decide whether to pull out of a long-term conflict on a different continent. What steps would you take to make this decision? Why would you take those steps?

What is Critical Thinking? What is Problem Solving?

1600
To clean up a Confused Learning Intention, Williams (2017) suggests

What is separate the context of the intention from the learning intention?

1600

Flexibility, responsibility, initiative...

What are Dispositions?

1600

What students should know and be able to do and the criteria for judging student performance.

What are Learning Targets?

1600

Defends, criticizes, justifies...

What is Evaluation?

1600

Analyze the text of NC Senate Bill 49 and the corresponding data about how many teachers have been reported to the Department of Public Instruction. Explain the extent to which this bill is effective and impactful? What do you see as possible unforeseen consequences of this bill?

What is Evaluation?

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