Hitting the Target

Kimberly Karzen, Nancy Schwerin, Annette Orrico, Marie Gillespie,

Maribeth Coffey-Sears, Jeremy Vrtis

PLT Formative Assessment Team

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Objectives

I will create a clear and understandable vision of the learning target for my students. (Strategy 1)

I will be able to design lessons to focus on one learning target or aspect of quality. (Strategy 5)

Seven Strategies of Assessment for Learning, Pearson Assessment Training Institute

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Agenda Getting Started

Opening Activity Objectives and Agenda

Designing One TargetNarrowing your Objective Activity

Creating Clear TargetsHow to….. with Bloom’sActivity

Visible Targets

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Have you ever…

• taught a lesson and then had a student ask “what is the point?” or “why do we need to know this?”

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Design lessons to focus on one learning target or aspect of quality at a time. (Strategy 5)

Seven Strategies of Assessment for Learning, Pearson Assessment Training Institute

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• Describe one activity or lesson you love to do with your students.

• Create the learning targets for that lesson.

Prompt

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1.  In what ways does the activity or lesson have one target that is clear for you and the students?2.  In what ways is the activity or lesson unclear for students? (no target, no clear target, too many targets, other distractions)

Questions

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GET Mathematics

Students are given two parallel lines cut by a transversal.They then must label each angle pair.

Students will then give me examples of each of the angle pairs.

Finally students will then determine the value of each angle.

Target: Make the distinction between the angle pairs.

Writing One Learning Target

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Define iconography and chronology. Identify iconography in a work of art. Use this knowledge of the iconography and chronology to apply to a specific artwork to understand it. Hypothesize why the artist made the work and what they were saying to the audience with the piece.

Target: Explain the role of analyzing iconography and chronology in decoding the meaning of an artwork.

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GET Language Arts  

Theme PPT (or other content delivery about what a theme statement is)

Read a short story. Write a theme statement.  Share with small group and create one as a group. Exchange theme statements with other groups who will check it's effectiveness.

Exit slip; write the definition of theme statement.

Target: Writing an effective theme statement.

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GET History of Fashion Learning Targets

Students will identify fashion styles connected to specific time periods

Students will recognize and explain how political events affected the fashion styles

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GET Business Ownership Learning Targets

I will be able to list 3 advantages that a corporation has over a partnership.

I will be able to list 3 disadvantages that a corporation has in relation to partnerships.

Writing One Learning Target

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Reflect on elements of your activity that can be improved to achieve one target that is clear.

Reflect

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Provide students with a clear and understandable vision of the learning target. (Strategy 1)

Seven Strategies of Assessment for Learning,Pearson Assessment Training Institute

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Formative Assessment Diagnostic

“There is a diagnostic aspect to all formative assessment, and diagnostic information can inform both students’ studying and teacher’s teaching. The key is having a concept of the goal or learning target, which originally is the teacher’s, but which ideally the student will internalize, eventually setting his or her own goals and monitoring progress toward them.”(Sadler, 1989; Gipps, 1994)

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Convert the definition into student-friendly language

Formative assessment is a tool used by both the teacher and student to monitor progress.

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Essential Outcome:Explain the role of analyzing

iconography and chronology in decoding the meaning of an artwork.  Student-friendly targets:

I can define iconography and chronology. I can identify iconography in a work of art.

Essential Outcomes→ Learning Target→ Student-friendly targetsExample in Art

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Essential Outcome: Identify the five methods of proving triangles congruent.

Learning Targets:I can distinguish all of the triangle congruencies.

I can recommend the proper triangle congruency given visual information.

Essential Outcomes→ Learning Target→ Student-friendly targetsExample in Geometry

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Essential Outcomes Learning Target Student-friendly targets

Example in Fashion:

Essential Outcome: Relate the fashion of the time to the cultural, social and political events of that time period.

Learning Targets:

I can define silhouette, garment, and garment parts.I can identify the silhouette of the time period.I can explain how the political events influenced the fashion of the time.

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Essential Outcomes Learning Target Student-friendly targets

Example in Business:

Essential Outcome: Students will be able to recognize and identify the advantages and disadvantages of proprietorship, partnership, corporations, and franchises.

Learning Targets:

I will be to compare and contrast an entrepreneur and intrapreneur.I will be able to summarize how a company goes from being privately held to publicly held.I will be able to list the fees associated with starting a franchise.

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Essential Outcomes Learning Target Student-friendly targets

Example in Biology:

Essential Outcome:

Explain the role of cell membranes as selectively permeable barriers (diffusion, osmosis, and active transport).

Student-friendly targets:

I can define osmosis, diffusion, and active transport.

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Bloom’s Taxonomy

Level I KnowledgeList who were the main…

Level II ComprehensionExplain what is happening….

Level III ApplicationApply what you learned to develop…

"Taxonomy of Educational Objectives, Handbook I: The Cognitive Domain."

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Bloom’s Taxonomy

Level IV AnalysisMake a distinction between….

Level V SynthesisFormulate a theory for…

Level VI EvaluationAssess the importance of…

"Taxonomy of Educational Objectives, Handbook I: The Cognitive Domain."

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Writing Learning Targets Directions

Write one learning target for each of the Bloom Levels

We will then write the levels on the posters around the room

We will then do a gallery walk and star the clear targets and question marks on the unclear targets

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Star Questioned

Gallery WalkWhat did you notice about your different levels?Which ones do you think are the most effective?What can be improved?

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Do You Keep Targets Visible For The Entire Lesson?

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Brainstorm

If NOT, How Can You Keep Targets Visible?

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Design lessons to focus on one learning target or aspect of quality at

a time.

Provide students with a clear and

understandable vision of the learning target.

Teach students to self-assess and set goals.

Engage students in self-reflection, and let them keep track of and share their learning.

Use examples and models of strong and weak work.

Offer regular descriptive feedback.

Teach students focused revision.

7 Strategies of Assessment of Learning

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Objectives

I will create a clear and understandable vision of the learning target for my students. (Strategy 1)

I will be able to design lessons to focus on one learning target or aspect of quality. (Strategy 5)

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Resource

Chappuis, Jan. Seven Strategies of Assessment for Learning. Boston: Pearson Education, 2009. Print