Task and Learning Design
Naugatuck Public Schools has developed and uses a Learning Cycle Model in its curriculum and instruction design. This model guides our thinking and creates high-level, high-expectations experiences for every student in every classroom everyday.
Curricular and instructional design is intentionally connected through our model of learning. This model is research-based.
In order for students to grow and achieve, they need to receive actionable feedback from their teachers and peers. This model links feedback to each stage of the learning cycle. Without feedback, students would not be able to skillfully move through the learning process.
Making Meaning: All experiences start with concepts and ideas. Collaboratively, students decide what they mean and how they connect with what they already know.
Investigate: New concepts and ideas need to be investigated to more deeply understand them. Students engage in research and inquiry to make sense of new knowledge, ideas, concepts, and themes.
Create and Design: Once students deeply understand concepts, information and ideas, they need to do something with it. They apply their understandings in authentic, meaningful ways in experiences designed to connect to their interests and engage them in the learning.
Communicate and Present: All new understandings and learning need to be shared. Students present their work and thinking to an audience and engage in discourse with adults and peers about their thinking.
What does the learning look like?
