The Building Blocks of Project-Based Learning Lesson Plan Check List for PBL Jennifer Pieratt, author of Project-Based Learning: Assessment and Other Dirty Words, provided some tips to help you integrate assessment best practices into your projects, while also helping you uphold rigor and student engagement: Start With The End In Mind Build Your Rubric Rows Benchmark Deliverables Calendar It Out...
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What is Authentic Project Based Learning Authentic Project Based Learning Making Project-Based Learning Authentic Key to create an authentic Project Based Learning Project is to make it real, relevant and impactful. John Larmer in his article “PBL: What Does It Take for A Project to Be ‘Authentic’? defines a project as not authentic unless it is in the real world, directly...
A Public Product and Sustain Inquiry Project Based Learning Defined Project based learning is “a systematic teaching method that engages students in learning important knowledge and 21st century skills through an extended student-influenced inquiry process structured around complex, authentic questions and carefully designed products and learning tasks.” This is according to the book...
Introduction True student ownership begins when the teacher looks at assessment from the point of view of the student. That is assessment for learning. Robert Crowe and Jane Kenney define the student’s ability to understand when they are learning and struggling, as assessment. It directly relates to the learning as determined in the curriculum, and to the strategies as determined in...
Effective Instructional Practices In today’s changing school environment, it is important to ensure students learn. Learning is a process that needs good teaching methods that fit each student’s needs. This blog post will talk about instructional practices. It will show why they matter for creating a good learning environment. Also, it will share simple strategies that teachers can...
Effective Instruction Classroom Choas. According to the article “The Elements of Effective Instruction” by the Great Schools Partnership, five key elements of instructional practice work hand in hand to boost student engagement, ultimately leading to enhanced student outcomes and achievements. These elements also lay the groundwork for encouraging students to take ownership of their...
What Students Know and Do Curriculum Crowe and Kennedy describe curriculum as what students are expected to know and do by the end of a lesson, unit, or course. It all starts with grasping the essential content and skills that learners should master. The standards shaped by curriculum and learning objectives derived from state expectations provide a solid foundation for educational goals...
Student Ownership Student ownership is defined as a mindset, according to Robert Crowe and Jane Kennedy, authors of Developing Student Ownership Supporting Students to Own Their Learning through the use of Strategic Learning Practices. Authors describe students with an ownership mindset who know they have the authority, capacity, and responsibility to own their learning. The Look and Sound of...
Two Key Components Rigor Two Components in Path to Rigor The Path to Rigor has two components-complexity and autonomy. This is according to authors Carla Moore, Michael D Toth, and Robert J Marzano, The Essentials for Standards-Driven Classrooms. Complexity, authors define, is the cognitive load required by the standard. There are four levels in Marzano’s taxonomy: Retrieval, comprehension...
What is Student Engagement? Introduction Strengthen student engagement, author Dr. Richard D Jones, is based on Engagement-Based Learning and Teaching. It is an approach that provides the foundation for developing and strengthening student engagement and the learning process. Dr. Jones built the foundation through specific principles, habits, skills and strategies. There are three domains of...
6 Ways of Making Thinking Visible The 6 Ways to Make Thinking Visible A Powerful Practice are, according to Ron Ritchhart and Mark Church authors of the The Power of Making Thinking Visible: Foster deep learning Cultivate engaged students Change the role of students and teachers Enhance our formative assessment practice Improve learning Developing thinking dispositions Ritchhart and Church...
Standards Based Planning Process includes planning lessons and units built on standards, and creating assessments that measure student progress toward standards.
Thinking Tool Kit Thinking Tools Promote Higher Literacy Thinking tools are cognitive strategies, including planning and goal-setting, tapping prior knowledge, making connections, forming interpretations, reflecting, and evaluating that experienced readers and writers used to construct meaning from and with texts according to Carol Booth Olson, author of Thinking Tools for Young Readers and...
In education, success criteria are clear and concise guidelines that outline what effective learning entails for a specific task, assignment, or objective. Unlike broader learning goals, success criteria break down expectations into manageable, achievable steps, giving high school students clear targets to strive for.
Learning targets are essential for helping students know what they need to focus on. Unlike broad objectives, effective learning targets are concise, measurable, and utilize action-oriented verbs. Words like "identify," "explain," "analyze," or "create" illustrate the specific skills or actions students should demonstrate after a lesson.