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Effective Assignments
Elevating Student Work Through Standards-Driven Assignment Design
Students can do no better than the assignments they are given. Effective Assignments ensure that every learner has the opportunity to think critically, write purposefully, and demonstrate mastery of the Learning Goals. When assignments are thoughtfully planned, aligned to standards, and intellectually challenging, they communicate high expectations and promote deeper engagement and learning.
Learn how to develop rigorous and relevant assignments that reflect the cognitive demands of your standards — not just on paper, but in daily practice. By integrating Higher Order Thinking, writing, and differentiation strategies, you can design assignments that push all students toward academic success.
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Key Takeaways
- Explain why well-designed assignments drive instructional expectations and student achievement.
- Identify characteristics of rigorous and effective assignments aligned to standards and Learning Goals.
- Design assignments that require Higher Order Thinking and purposeful writing.
- Align assignments with lesson Learning Goals and cognitive demands.
- Differentiate assignments to meet diverse learner needs while maintaining high expectations.
- Select appropriate assignment formats, writing types, and scoring tools (e.g., rubrics) to assess student work.
Effective Assignments
Professional Development Opportunities
Effective Assignments is a Targeted High-Yield Strategy.
Learning-Focused Targeted High-Yield Strategy Professional Development provides focused learning on a single High-Yield Instructional Strategy. Targeted High-Yield Strategy Professional Development gives you essential concepts, practical tools, clear examples, and implementation-ready ideas to implement a specific high yield strategy with clarity and purpose. By moving beyond theory into practice, this professional development helps you plan and apply the high-yield strategy with confidence and assurance that it will drive measurable student success.
Buy Effective Assignments Book/Course -
Research shows there is an ever widening gap between actual assignments and grade level expectations. With Effective Assignments you can make sure that what you assign and expect of your students is grade level appropriate. You will learn how to generate assignments that are standards-driven and that integrate content, literacy, and Higher Order Thinking or Reading Comprehension to challenge students at high levels.
With the expectations of current standards, students are expected to analyze and apply their learning to real-life situations, problems, and challenges. The assignments you learn to plan in Effective Assignments expect students to analyze information and apply their knowledge in these meaningful and authentic ways.
- Regular price
- $30.00
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Regular ground shipping, which arrives in 7-10 business days, is free. Yes, FREE!
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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.
What is your return policy?
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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Call 866-95-LEARN to arrange the return for a refund or exchange. Products purchased that are made to order (Coaches Binders,
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