Learning Targets: Helping Students Aim for Understanding in Today's Lesson

by Connie M. Moss, Susan Brookhart, Susan M. Brookhart

Book Overview

In Learning Targets, Connie M. Moss and Susan M. Brookhart contend that improving student learning and achievement happens in the immediacy of an individual lesson--what they call ""today's lesson""-or it doesn't happen at all. The key to making today's lesson meaningful? Learning targets. Written from students' point of view, a learning target describes a lesson-sized chunk of information and skills that students will come to know deeply. Each lesson's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1416614419
• ISBN13: 9781416614418
• Release Date: July 2012
• Publisher: ASCD
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.0" x 8.9"