Título: Learning Targets: Helping Students Aim for Understanding in Today's Lesson
Autor: Connie M. Moss, Susan M. Brookhart
Sinopse: 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 a theory of action that students, teachers, principals, and central-office administrators can use to unify their efforts to raise student achievement and create a culture of evidence-based, results-oriented practice.
- Provides strategies for designing learning targets that promote higher-order thinking and foster student goal setting, self-assessment, and self-regulation.
- Explains how to design a strong performance of understanding, an activity that produces evidence of students' progress toward the learning target.
- Shows how to use learning targets to guide summative assessment and grading.
Learning Targets also includes reproducible planning forms, a classroom walk-through guide, a lesson-planning process guide, and guides to teacher and student self-assessment.
What students are actually doing during today's lesson is both the source of and the yardstick for school improvement efforts. By applying the insights in this book to your own work, you can improve your teaching expertise and dramatically empower all students as stakeholders in their own learning.
Contexto da obra
Como livro em inglês, esta obra costuma ganhar também uma camada própria de interesse editorial e linguístico. “Learning Targets: Helping Students Aim for Understanding in Today’s Lesson”, de Connie M. Moss, Susan M. Brookhart, publicado pela editora ASCD, em 2012 e com 220 páginas, integra a categoria Livros em Inglês. Por isso, o interesse da obra tende a se ampliar quando o leitor considera também a relação com a língua em que ela circula.
Editora: ASCD
Páginas: 220
Ano: 2012-07-02
Edição: 1
Linguagem: en
ISBN: 1416614419
ISBN13: 9781416614418
Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora ASCD costumam focar em práticas educacionais que dialogam diretamente com desafios reais da sala de aula e da liderança escolar. A experiência de leitura é marcada por uma linguagem clara e orientada à aplicação prática, com ênfase em estratégias para melhorar o ensino, o aprendizado e o ambiente escolar. O catálogo privilegia obras que abordam temas como liderança docente, planejamento instrucional, gestão de sala, engajamento estudantil e suporte a alunos com necessidades especiais. Muitas obras exploram também a dimensão emocional e social da educação, como o impacto do trauma na aprendizagem e a construção de ambientes seguros e acolhedores.
