Effective Student Assignments
Accelerate Learning and unlock excellence by creating and differentiating Effective Assignments.
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How do more effective Student Assignments improve outcomes?
How can schools break free from the seemingly unchangeable achievement trendline that confines them to a Cycle of Low Achievement, preventing the closure of learning gaps and hindering students from reaching higher levels of academic growth and proficiency?
Despite a data-driven approach to school improvement, most schools find themselves stuck within an achievement trendline of ten percentile points, unable to reach consistently higher academic growth and proficiency levels.
Unfortunately, this often leads to a fallacy that students cannot do the expected work. This may cause teachers to lower their expectations for students and, in upper grades, place students into less challenging courses. As a result, students are provided a less demanding curriculum with low-level assignments and instruction at all levels, leading to low assessment scores. This Cycle of Low Achievement locks schools into an achievement rut, unable to close learning gaps.
Exemplary Schools use a system for consistently planning lesson assignments and assessments that reflect grade-level expectations differentiated to meet the needs of all students. Accelerate Learning with Effective Assignments provides innovative strategies designed to immerse educators in the world of differentiated assignments and assessments that integrate content, literacy, and thinking skills from grade-level standards.
Let’s empower both teachers and students to assess progress at every stage of the learning process.
Key Takeaways
- Characteristics of Effective Assignments
Understand the significance of aligning assignments seamlessly with specific Learning Goals. Explore how effective assignments serve as powerful tools to gauge student progress and provide valuable insights for both teachers and learners.
- Planning Student Assignments
Effective Assignments require planning. Learn the process necessary to plan high quality assignments that students can use to enhance their learning.
- Learning and Assignments
Discover the transformative power of assignments after learning. Discover how they serve as a compass to assess progress and identify students requiring remediation or additional support in small-group settings. Explore how assignments become a dynamic tool for ongoing evaluation and support.
- Differentiating Assignments
Understand how Effective Assignments differentiate students' independent applications of Learning Goals. Focus on providing various tiers or levels of difficulty to address students' varying degrees of readiness. Additionally, explore the incorporation of structured choices to grant greater attention to students' learning preferences.
Don't miss this opportunity to revolutionize your approach to assignments, and create a learning environment that assesses and accelerates student understanding. Join us to gain practical insights, explore effective strategies, and develop a roadmap for designing assignments that propel learning and comprehension to new heights. Elevate your teaching approach with effective assignments that truly engage and empower your students.
Case Study:
Teacher Training Results in Math Gains and Building Successful Online Curriculum
Learning-Focused was asked to become a professional development partner by the superintendent of the Tunkhannock Area School District, who had worked with us in her previous district and knew firsthand that we would be able to help her achieve the following district improvement goals:
- Focus curriculum and instruction toward a standards-driven model
- Examine how teachers were incorporating High Yield Instructional Strategies
- Make proactive improvements to remove barriers to student learning
Accelerate Learning with Effective Assignments
Professional Development Opportunities
Buy the Accelerate Learning with Effective Assignments Book -
Discover cutting-edge strategies and tools to shift students from struggling to meeting, or even exceeding, expectations. Learn how the power of Acceleration replaces remediation and re-teaching with success when lessons are taught the first time. Acceleration enhances self-efficacy, boosts engagement, and cultivates a culture of academic excellence in every classroom.
- Learn the significance of seamlessly aligning assignments with Learning Goals.
- Explore how effective assignments serve as powerful tools to gauge student progress and provide valuable insights for both teachers and students.
- Learn the process to plan high quality assignments that students can use to enhance their learning.
- Understand how effective assignments differentiate students' independent applications of Learning Goals.
- Learn to efficiently provide various tiers, or levels of difficulty, to address students' varying degrees of readiness.
- Explore how providing structured choices focuses greater attention on students' learning preferences.
- Regular price
- $55.00
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We offer quantity discounts up to 10% on materials when purchased for a school-wide or district-wide professional development
training that we are providing at your location or when using with a Learning-Focused Online course.
Contact us to request a discount.
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Learning-Focused will accept returns of products within 30 days of receipt of shipment for a refund. Learning-Focused will accept
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