Creating & Using Learning Targets & Performance Scales: How Teachers Make Better Instructional Decisions

by Carla Moore, Kathy Marx, Robert J. Marzano

Overview

Can your students understand and even generate performance scales? To meet rigorous standards, students need to be able to comprehend learning goals, embedded in performance scales, which include application of knowledge. They must be able to generate their own scales. 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 adaptations for various student populations, examples and nonexamples from classroom practice, and strategies to avoid making common mistakes.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781941112014
Publisher:	Learning Sciences
Publication date:	06/15/2015
Series:	Marzano Center: Essentials for Achieving Rigor Series
Pages:	136
Product dimensions:	6.80(w) x 9.90(h) x 0.40(d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xi

About the Authors xiii

Introduction 1

Creating and Using Learning Targets and Performance Scales 5

Part I Creating Learning Targets and Performance Scales 7

Part II Using Learning Targets and Performance Scales 41

Instructional Technique 1 Routines for Using Targets and Scales 43

Instructional Technique 2 Using Teacher-Created Targets and Scales 59

Instructional Technique 3 Using Student-Friendly Scales 75

Instructional Technique 4 Using Student-Generated Scales 89

Conclusion 109

References 111

Index 113