Teaching with Clarity

What is Teaching with Clarity?

Teaching with clarity through learning progressions involves guiding students through a clear sequence of learning steps, while learning intentions set specific objectives for each lesson, and success criteria establish clear benchmarks for measuring achievement. This comprehensive approach ensures transparency in learning objectives, step-by-step guidance in skill development, and explicit standards for successful outcomes, fostering a structured and effective learning environment.

Why is this strategy important?

Teaching with teacher clarity, employing learning progressions, learning intentions, and success criteria, is vital as it offers a roadmap for student learning, providing clear direction, measurable objectives, and transparent benchmarks that guide both educators and learners, ultimately fostering deeper understanding, targeted instruction, and meaningful assessment, optimizing the learning process for all involved. 

What are some steps to Teaching with Teacher Clarity?

1. Understand the Content Standards:

   1. Review the content standards to identify the key concepts (nouns) and skills (verbs) required.

2. Develop Learning Progressions:

   1. Create a learning progression that breaks down the standards into sequential steps or stages, outlining the developmental pathway for students.

3. Formulate Clear Learning Intentions:

   1. Based on the learning progression, craft explicit learning intentions that specify what students should understand or achieve at each stage of the progression.

4. Create Measurable Success Criteria:

   1. Develop success criteria aligned with each learning intention, defining observable and measurable benchmarks for assessing student achievement.

5. Communicate Learning Intentions and Success Criteria:

   1. Clearly articulate the learning intentions and success criteria to students at the beginning of the lesson, providing a clear focus and understanding of what they'll be learning and how success will be measured.

6. Connect Learning Activities to Intentions and Criteria:

   1. Design instructional activities and tasks that align with the learning intentions and success criteria, ensuring students engage in activities that directly address the desired learning outcomes.

7. Provide Ongoing Feedback and Guidance:

   1. Throughout the lesson, offer timely and specific feedback aligned with the success criteria, guiding students toward meeting the intended learning outcomes.

8. Encourage Self-Assessment and Reflection:

   1. Prompt students to self-assess their progress against the success criteria, encouraging reflection on their learning journey and areas for improvement.

9. Review and Reflect on Achievement:

   1. At the end of the lesson, review the learning intentions and success criteria with students, allowing them to evaluate their progress and reflect on their learning accomplishments

What is Teaching with Clarity?

Teaching with clarity through learning progressions involves guiding students through a clear sequence of learning steps, while learning intentions set specific objectives for each lesson, and success criteria establish clear benchmarks for measuring achievement. This comprehensive approach ensures transparency in learning objectives, step-by-step guidance in skill development, and explicit standards for successful outcomes, fostering a structured and effective learning environment.

Why is this strategy important?

Teaching with teacher clarity, employing learning progressions, learning intentions, and success criteria, is vital as it offers a roadmap for student learning, providing clear direction, measurable objectives, and transparent benchmarks that guide both educators and learners, ultimately fostering deeper understanding, targeted instruction, and meaningful assessment, optimizing the learning process for all involved. 

What are some steps to Teaching with Teacher Clarity?

1. Understand the Content Standards:

   1. Review the content standards to identify the key concepts (nouns) and skills (verbs) required.

2. Develop Learning Progressions:

   1. Create a learning progression that breaks down the standards into sequential steps or stages, outlining the developmental pathway for students.

3. Formulate Clear Learning Intentions:

   1. Based on the learning progression, craft explicit learning intentions that specify what students should understand or achieve at each stage of the progression.

4. Create Measurable Success Criteria:

   1. Develop success criteria aligned with each learning intention, defining observable and measurable benchmarks for assessing student achievement.

5. Communicate Learning Intentions and Success Criteria:

   1. Clearly articulate the learning intentions and success criteria to students at the beginning of the lesson, providing a clear focus and understanding of what they'll be learning and how success will be measured.

6. Connect Learning Activities to Intentions and Criteria:

   1. Design instructional activities and tasks that align with the learning intentions and success criteria, ensuring students engage in activities that directly address the desired learning outcomes.

7. Provide Ongoing Feedback and Guidance:

   1. Throughout the lesson, offer timely and specific feedback aligned with the success criteria, guiding students toward meeting the intended learning outcomes.

8. Encourage Self-Assessment and Reflection:

   1. Prompt students to self-assess their progress against the success criteria, encouraging reflection on their learning journey and areas for improvement.

9. Review and Reflect on Achievement:

   1. At the end of the lesson, review the learning intentions and success criteria with students, allowing them to evaluate their progress and reflect on their learning accomplishments