Learning Targets and Aligning Success Criteria Workshop
CLARITY PATHWAY: INTEGRATING TEACHING AND LEARNING SYSTEM©
About the Learning Targets & Success Criteria Workshop:
Student Learning Targets: After the Essential Standards are “unwrapped,” the next step is to write Student Learning Targets by rewording the standards into “kidspeak,” using age-appropriate student language, without losing the rigor and intent of the actual standard so that nothing is “lost in translation.”
Success Criteria: After identifying the student-worded Learning Targets, educators look again at both the “unwrapped” Essential Standard(s) and the student-worded Learning Target(s) and think: “What would students need to show or provide as credible evidence that they had ‘hit’ the Learning Target?” They then write these Success Criteria in specific verb-noun phrases.
Who Should Attend:
- District and School Leaders,
- PK-12 Classroom Educators,
- Content Area Coordinators and Specialists,
- Instructional Coaches
What You Will Experience and Create Through Explanation, Examples, and Practice:
Online or In-person Workshops to fit your Schedule
Part 1: Write Student Learning Targets
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See the “Big Picture” of the Integrated Teaching & Learning System©
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Learn How “Unwrapping” Essential Standards, Learning Targets, and Success Criteria Together Build the Unit of Study Foundation
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See the Teacher Clarity Research Related to Learning Targets
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See Educator-Created and A.I.-Generated Examples of Student Learning Targets in Multiple Content Areas
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Activity 1: Write a Standards-Aligned Student Learning Target of Choice in Any Content Area
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Part 2: Align Success Criteria to Student Learning Targets
- What Success Criteria Are and Why They Are Essential in Communicating to Students How to “Hit” the Learning Target
- See Hattie’s Dramatic Research Related to Success Criteria
- See Educator-Created and A.I.-Generated Examples of Success Criteria in Multiple Content Areas
- Activity 2: Write Objectively Worded Success Criteria to Match Student Learning Target
Recommended Preparatory Resources:
Participants in this Learning Targets and Success Criteria Workshop will benefit from first experiencing how to “unwrap” Essential Standards as preparation for writing standards-aligned Student Learning Targets and Success Criteria
Essential Standards WorkshopsAdditional Resources About Learning Targets and Success Criteria
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What are past workshop participants saying?
“Thank you so much for sharing your wisdom and strategies with us! We are super excited about using our new learning targets and success criteria!”
“It really struck me that the teacher and learner are involved. It puts them on the same page. That is very important”.
“I think rewording the standard to a 'kid friendly' version without losing the rigor is very powerful. This was a great training.”
“I liked how, as an Environmental Science teacher, I can combine Bio and Earth Science to help my success criteria really focus on learning to help move students ahead.”
“My biggest take away is that alignment and intention (of standards, learning targets, and success criteria) is hugely important in helping our students achieve.”
“Writing standards in ‘kidspeak’ so that student, and teachers, have clarity really resonated with me.”
“The final implementation of all this should definitely make the classroom instruction flow easier.”
“Creating the success criteria gave us another opportunity to look at the learning targets to make sure we are on point with them.”