The Clarity Problem
Learning experiences are not connected in a way that promotes learners to make connections and deepen learning.
What is fragmented teaching and learning?
Sometimes referred to as learning goals, learning outcomes, objectives, aims, or learning targets.
What are learning intentions?
Building a shared understanding of learning expectations and a pathway to make progress.
What is Co-constructing success criteria?
Creating opportunites for students to respond.
What is assessing with clarity?
Product, process, and performance
What is the learner experience?
A strategy being used in the classroom that does not match the learning needs of the students or the rigor required in the standards.
What is a misaligned strategy?
Sometimes referred to as key competencies or evidence of learning.
What are the success criteria?
Increases students' self-efficacy as learners and their willingness to engage in the task and see the importance and purpose.
What is the "Why" for co-constructing success criteria?
Any strategies, activities, or tasks that make students thinking visible and allow both the teacher and learner to observe learning progress.
What are opportunities to respond?
Self, student to student, teacher to student, and student to teacher
What is feedback?
Teachers and learners are unsure or unaware of the progress made toward the intended learning.
What is the lack of progress monitoring of learning?
The pathway or incremental steps that begin with prerequisite skills and concepts and progress as the class travels forward through the learning process.
What are learning progressions?
The use of work examples and exemplars that meet or exceed all success criteria
What is modeling?
Teacher use of individual, small group, whole group, silent, out loud, formal, and informal questioning formats
What is a type of opportunity to respond?
Students can articulate what they are learning, why they are learning it, and what success looks like
What is an assessment-capable learner?
This happens when teachers use rubrics to base the learning on that are vague and give little information about student progress.
What is an unhelpful assessment data or tool?
Specify what students are to do to demonstrate learning, provide a map to the learning destination, identify the details needed to achieve the learning, use specific terms from the standard(s) and maintain rigor,and include objective wording only
What is an effective success criteria?
Determining when to co-construct success criteria with students
What is the first step to co-constructing success criteria?
Asking learners to provide descriptions of terms, concepts, ideas, procedures, or processes.
What is a task that makes thinking visible?
Students self-assess and identify areas of growth and set targets to reach proficiency.
What is goal setting?
Comes as a result of crafting learning intentions and success criteria aligned to standards, co-constructing learning intentions and success criteria with learners, creating opportunities for students to respond, giving and receiving effective feedback on and for learning, and sharing learning and progress between teachers and learning.
What is Clarity?
When learning intentions and success criteria in the classroom work to clarify learning for students.
What is gaining clarity?
I don't have time to co construct success criteria.
What is a common misconception about co-constructing?
Learners simply repeat terms, concepts, ideas, procedures, or processes as opposed to learners being asked to make meaning of their learning by developing multiple representations of the content, identifying patterns, and establishing an emotional connection with the content.
What is task vs. exercises?
Paving the path to graduation and beyond
What is the mission of Progressive High School?