The Standards-Based Classroom: Make Learning the Goal

Get to know which practices related to curriculum, instruction, and assessment are essential to make learning the goal for every student! You’ll learn how to

• Create learning targets that are scalable and transferable within and across units


• Develop instructional scales for each learning target


• Design non-scored practice activities and assessments


• Introduce and model skills that will be assessed and design tasks that allow students to use these skills


• Differentiate instruction and activities based on data from various types of assessments


• Maintain a gradebook that tracks summative achievement of learning targets, and score assessments accordingly


• Communicate progress clearly and efficiently with students and families