Learning Intentions
The most common way North American teachers convey learning intentions
What is a rubric?
English, Mathematics, Science, Arts...
What is Core Subject Area Knowledge?
What students should know and be able to do in major content areas.
What are standards?
Constructs, assembles, integrates...
What is Synthesis?
Examine the last five hundred years of death rates and birth rates. What patterns do you notice?
What is Analysis?
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?
Networking tools, media literacy, digital tech...
What are Technology Skills?
An example of a finished student product or performance that has already been evaluated.
What is an exemplar, model, or anchor?
Summarizes, estimates, interprets, rephrases...
What is Comprehension?
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?
Model/exemplar papers, What Not to Write, Strengths & Weaknesses Discussions are examples of
What are practical ways to help students understand learning intentions?
Interpersonal, teaming, managing conflict...
What are Collaborative Skills?
A method of identifying content and grade-level learning goals that can be measured to document learning.
What are Student Learning Objectives?
What is Knowledge?
Given what you know about basket-weaving, what is likely to happen if you tried to weave a basket with shoelaces?
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?
Creativity, metacognition, decision making...
What are Cognitive Skills?
Statements of student performance that should be demonstrated at the end of an instructional unit.
What are educational objectives?
Uses, solves, applies, shows...
What is Application?
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?
What is separate the context of the intention from the learning intention?
Flexibility, responsibility, initiative...
What are Dispositions?
What students should know and be able to do and the criteria for judging student performance.
What are Learning Targets?
Defends, criticizes, justifies...
What is Evaluation?
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?