Unit 3
What part of deriving a learning target was challenging for you? What connection does the learning target have with assessment?
I thought that taking multiple parts of a standard and breaking it up into multiple learning targets was challenging. It is sometimes hard to not try and combine everything into one big lesson, but I know that it is important to slow everything down so that students gain a better understanding in the end. Learning targets are mainly for the benefit of the student, because when students understand what they are supposed to be learning and where their skills should be by the end of lesson, they are not "flying blind" in their steps in getting to the target. I think that the learning targets are what set students up for assessments, and allows students to understand what they will be assessed on no matter how the assessment is given.
I thought that taking multiple parts of a standard and breaking it up into multiple learning targets was challenging. It is sometimes hard to not try and combine everything into one big lesson, but I know that it is important to slow everything down so that students gain a better understanding in the end. Learning targets are mainly for the benefit of the student, because when students understand what they are supposed to be learning and where their skills should be by the end of lesson, they are not "flying blind" in their steps in getting to the target. I think that the learning targets are what set students up for assessments, and allows students to understand what they will be assessed on no matter how the assessment is given.
For me, finding out what verbs to use other than demonstrate can be a challenge, luckily for me, this module went over this specific thing and gave me a few more good ideas to use! I never really got learning targets growing up but learning about them now, they would have definitely helped me out back in the day! This is why I like how you pointed out that without them, students would be “flying bling” as I did.
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