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Igniting Passion and Achieving 100% Engagement: An Interactive Workshop for Teachers

Join us for a workshop where teachers will examine WASL data, ask questions, share comments, and seek more information. We will also explore the importance of essential questions and learning targets, and discuss strategies to help students reach their targets.

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Igniting Passion and Achieving 100% Engagement: An Interactive Workshop for Teachers

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  1. Welcome Opening Activity • Please examine the WASL data at your table on the green sheets. • After looking at the data please, write at least 2 sticky notes for each of the following: These are some questions I have… I want more information about… Here are some comments/thoughts I have… • Post your sticky notes on the paper provided at the table

  2. Essential Questions How can we ignite a passion for learning? How do we achieve 100% engagement? How can assessment improve instruction? How can learners support each other?

  3. Learning Targets 9-10-08 1. Teachers examine WASL data and ask questions, share comments, and ask for more information. 2. Teachers identify a learning target and write the learning target in student friendly language with a colleague.

  4. Reflective Journals 1. Find one entry from last year that jumps out to you and share with a partner. 2. Update your journal with a tab and 2008-2009 information sheet

  5. Essential Questions are Broad, overarching Deal with big concepts – things you want students to remember 10 years from now. 3-5 questions are written for a whole unit or could be for the whole year of study Learning Targets are The daily focus of a lesson written in kid language and shared with students Skills or specific knowledge you want students to gain THAT DAY. Related to essential questions in that they provide pieces of learning that can help students eventually answer the essential questions. Why Target Matters The relevance of the target – how students will need to use this knowledge in your class, in other classes, or in their futures. Essential Questions vs. Learning Targets

  6. Big Picture . . . Strategies to help students reach target: Reading, writing, seminar, enactments, role plays, higher order questioning Strategies to help students reach target: Reading, writing, seminar, enactments, role plays, higher order questioning Strategies to help students reach target: Reading, writing, seminar, enactments, role plays, higher order questioning Strategies to help students reach target: Reading, writing, seminar, enactments, role plays, higher order questioning Strategies to help students reach target: Reading, writing, seminar, enactments, role plays, higher order questioning Strategies to help students reach target: Reading, writing, seminar, enactments, role plays, higher order questioning

  7. A social studies example of how it all fits together . . . . Note- the learning target is not a question – it’s what you want students to learn that day. It is important that you also help student understand why the target is important!! Strategies to help students reach target: Reading, writing, seminar, enactments, role plays, higher order questioning Strategies to help students reach target: Reading, writing, seminar, enactments, role plays, higher order questioning Strategies to help students reach target: Reading, writing, seminar, enactments, role plays, higher order questioning Strategies to help students reach target: Reading, writing, seminar, enactments, role plays, higher order questioning Strategies to help students reach target: Reading, writing, seminar, enactments, role plays, higher order questioning Strategies to help students reach target: Reading, writing, seminar, enactments, role plays, higher order questioning

  8. Why Target Matters . . . “Why should we know this stuff?” • Slavery in North America: Understanding the economic importance of a cheap labor supply will help us know how slavery spread and became part of the culture of the South. • Economics of cotton production: Understanding the costs and benefits of agricultural production will help you to understand what you pay for in the store. • How cotton gin impacted slavery: Understanding cause and effect in history will help us to realize that nothing is as simple as it seems.

  9. Journal Reflection What are some ways you can help students own the learning you want them to achieve in your learning targets?

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