Improving Student Achievement
One Teacher at a Time

Learning Targets-Curriculum
Planning for Instruction
Assessment Strategies
Grading and Recordkeeping
Reading and Learning
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Learning Targets

  • “just right” target history
  • 5-hour rule
  • Declarative and procedural knowledge
  • Format
  • Curriculum process
  • Character education, Effort, etc.

Planning (for Delivery of Instruction)

  • Schema history
  • Pollock lesson schema
  • Unit planning schema
  • Plan book

Instruction (for Improvement)

  • Research on learning strategies
  • Types of strategies
  • Strategies in the schema
  • I-4 – infusing technology

Assessment (for Improvement)

  • Assessment definition
  • Importance of feedback
  • Types of assessments
  • AASE assessment (B. Bloom)

Grading and Record Keeping (for Improvement)

  • Gradebook – how to populate
  • Effort, homework, etc.
  • Electronic gradebook
  • Points, percentages, or letters
  • Rubrics
  • Reports
  • External measures

Supervision

  • Pollock lesson schema