Learning Targets

Learning Targets are goals for lessons, projects, units, and courses.  They are derived from standards and used to assess growth and achievement.  They are written in concrete, student-friendly language - beginning with the stem “I can” - shared with students, posted in the classroom, and tracked carefully by students and teachers during the process of learning.  Students spend a good deal of time discussing and analyzing them and may be involved in modifying or creating them. (Berger, Rugen, and Woodfin, 2014 - Leaders of Their Own Learning) 

Learning Targets Focus Teachers in 

Their Teaching 

Learning Targets Focus Students During Their Learning 

From Moss, C. M. & Brookhart, S. M. (2012) Learning Targets: Helpings Students Aim for Understanding in Today’s Lesson

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