We have all been in that professional development. The IC is passionately speaking about “rigor” while you are dreaming of your pajamas, a cozy nest of blankets, bunny slippers, and that Netflix marathon. Suddenly, your IC hands out papers and ask you to start breaking down your standards so you can set your “Learning Objectives and Success Criteria” Wait! What happened to the bunny slippers? Verbs! The only verbs you want to deal with are sleep, watch, or relax, right? Alas, your verbs are now highlight, plan, and collaborate. It’s not that bad, right? But knowing your standards is important. And using learning goals is honestly one of the practices that most improved and honed my craft. (If you ever read this, thanks Ann!) So Why Set Learning Goals? It’s Your Road Map...
You Avoid Detours... Setting a goal also helps you weed out questions that are unimportant or can be addressed during the next lesson. How many times have you looked up at the clock and asked yourself where did the time go? (Oh yeah, I just spent 10 minutes of my 60 minute math block reteaching addition. Wait, aren’t we doing fractions? Head Slap. Yep. I have done that a lot!) It also helps you decide if that super cute Pinterest activity is going to really hit your learning needs. Don’t get me wrong, I love Pinterest, but sometimes I want to tailor a lesson to a pin and the rigor just isn’t there! To Pinterest or not to pinterest, that is the question? Learn the Lingo Setting a learning objective establishes academic vocab. At the beginning of your lesson your learners will most likely not know some of your words.Shazaam! By reading your learning goal, your learner instantaneously are seeing vocabulary AND it establishing a Need to Know. (Tune in next week for more information about Knows and Need to Knows.) You can even make a little anchor area. Where students can self evaluate their prior knowledge of the vocabulary. I Need to Know I have these Questions and I Can… (Tune in next week for more information about Knows and Need to Knows.) Sets a Purpose- And for those of your learners that need a reason why they are doing what they are doing. They have it. With your learning goals set, your students now know what they’re going to learn and how they will accomplish it. Let’s Go! Writing a learning goal shouldn’t take you hours. Just a minute or two. Ask yourself these questions.
Now Use It! It’s not enough just to post your objectives. You need to have your learners interacting with it. I created this graphic to share how I engaged my learners. And our winner of our free resource is... Sandy Crichton Luder ! If you would like a chance to win a free resource from my Teacher Pay Teacher store comment below! Tell me you something you like or something you would like to see! Like What You See? Try these Lessons or check out my store by clicking here!
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