Learning Targets: Helping Students Aim for Understanding in Today's Lesson

Author: Connie M. Moss and Susan M. Brookhart Edition: 1 Format: Large Print ISBN: 1416614419 Number Of Pages: 220 Publisher: Association for Supervision & Curriculum Development Details: In Learning Targets, Connie M. Moss and Susan M. Brookhart contend that improving student learning and achievement happens in the immediacy of an individual lesson--what they call "today's lesson"--or it doesn't happen at all.The key to making today's lesson meaningful? Learning targets. Written from students' point of view, a learning target describes a lesson-sized chunk of information and skills that students will come to know deeply. Each lesson's learning target connects to the next lesson's target, enabling students to master a coherent series of challenges that ultimately lead to important curricular standards. Drawing from the authors' extensive research and professional learning partnerships with classrooms, schools, and school districts, this practical book* Situates learning targets in