Can your students understand and even generate performance scales? Academic standards call for increased rigor, but simply raising complexity is not enough. Students need to be able to understand learning goals, embedded in performance scales, which include application of knowledge. They should even be capable of generating their own learning scales. In turn, teachers must become adept at providing rigorous learning goals and planning and scaffolding instruction to meet students' needs. Creating & Using Learning Targets & Performance Scales: How Teachers Make Better Instructional Decisions explores explicit techniques for mastering this crucial strategy of instructional practice. It includes: Explicit steps for implementation Recommendations for monitoring students' ability to understand learning goals Adaptations for students who struggle, have special needs, or excel in learning Examples and nonexamples from classroom practice Common mistakes and ways to avoid them The Essentials for Achieving Rigor series of instructional guides helps educators become highly skilled at implementing, monitoring, and adapting instruction. Put it to practical use immediately, adopting day-to-day examples as models for application in your own classroom.
Can your students understand and even generate performance scales? Academic standards call for increased rigor, but simply raising complexity is not enough. Students need to be able to understand learning goals, embedded in performance scales, which include application of knowledge. They should even be capable of generating their own learning scales. In turn, teachers must become adept at providing rigorous learning goals and planning and scaffolding instruction to meet students' needs. Creating & Using Learning Targets & Performance Scales: How Teachers Make Better Instructional Decisions explores explicit techniques for mastering this crucial strategy of instructional practice. It includes: Explicit steps for implementation Recommendations for monitoring students' ability to understand learning goals Adaptations for students who struggle, have special needs, or excel in learning Examples and nonexamples from classroom practice Common mistakes and ways to avoid them The Essentials for Achieving Rigor series of instructional guides helps educators become highly skilled at implementing, monitoring, and adapting instruction. Put it to practical use immediately, adopting day-to-day examples as models for application in your own classroom.
An experienced professional developer, teacher, and administrator,
Carla Moore, MSEd, oversees professional
development and product development for Learning Sciences
International, with a special emphasis on teacher and administrator
effectiveness. For more than a decade, she was a member of the
Learning Sciences professional development team and served in many
roles, including director of quality instruction at St. Lucie
County Public Schools in Florida. She co-led the implementation of
the Marzano Teacher Evaluation Model and supported training within
the district to meet strategic milestones for student achievement.
She is nationally recognized for her commitment to K-12 education,
having received the 2013 Florida Association of Staff Development
Award, the Schlechty Centre Conference Fellowship, and the Treasure
Coast News Lifetime Achiever of Education Award, among others.
Libby Garst, MSEd, enjoyed a successful business
career for more than 15 years before turning to teaching. She spent
nearly 15 years in education as a middle school classroom teacher
and an elementary instructional math coach. Today she brings
together both of her backgrounds to offer teachers, schools, and
districts a truly unique perspective. Ms. Garst earned her master’s
degree at University of Virginia.
Robert J. Marzano, PhD, is a nationally recognized
education researcher, speaker, trainer, and author of more than 30
books and 150 articles on topics such as instruction, assessment,
writing and implementing standards, cognition, effective
leadership, and school intervention. His practical translations of
the most current research and theory into classroom strategies are
widely practiced internationally by both teachers and
administrators. Dr. Marzano has partnered with Learning Sciences
International to offer the Marzano Teacher Evaluation Model, the
Marzano School Leadership Evaluation Model, and the Marzano
District Leader Evaluation Model. The Marzano evaluation models
have been adopted by school districts across the country because
they don’t simply measure ability, they actually help teachers and
leaders grow, improving their instruction over time. Dr. Marzano
also co-developed the Learning Sciences Marzano Center Essential
Strategies for Achieving Rigor, a model of instruction that fosters
essential teaching skills and strategies to support college and
career readiness standards.
"Creating & Using Learning Targets & Performance Scales does an
excellent job of focusing on the real purpose for learning targets
and scales. This was a very poorly implemented first step in many
district evaluation programs, and the content in this books
completely debunks those erroneous first directions." -- Robin L.
Oliveri "2014 Leon County Schools (Florida) Teacher of the
Year"
"I felt the ideas in Creating & Using Learning Targets &
Performance Scales were applicable across all disciplines K-12. The
overall idea, helping students become aware of their own learning,
is larger than grade level or academic area." -- Aaron Sitze "2013
Oregon Teacher of the Year finalist"
"The concepts and ideas of Creating & Using Learning Targets &
Performance Scales are excellent. I've never heard of scales but
I'm looking forward to using them in my classroom in the future."
-- Beth Maloney "2014 Arizona Teacher of the Year"
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