Aligns Instruction to Goals, Curriculum, and Assessments

Progression of Learning Across the Career

Aligns Instruction to Goals and Curriculum Assessments

Exploring & Aspiring

Aligns learning goals and strategies to *lesson targets and/or *personal learning profile.

Preparing

Aligns: (a) lesson plans to learning theory and best practice; (b) objectives and activities to district curriculum and/or state standards; and (c) learning to real-world references to meet student needs.

Emerging

Aligns: (a) *lesson targets to district curriculum and/or state standards; (b) success criteria to *lesson targets; and (c) planning and delivery to assessment of *lesson targets to meet student needs.

Developing

Aligns strategies and resources to *lesson targets and success criteria, which are aligned to district curriculum and/or state standards, to meet student needs.

Mastering

Evaluates alignment of strategies/resources/success criteria/objectives to district curriculum and/or state standards, revising as needed to meet student needs.

Leading

Provides leadership, training, mentoring, resources, and supports for teachers and others
in the larger professional community on:

aligning instruction/assessment to district curriculum and/or state standards and developing strategies to accomplish goals based on multiple assessment data, curriculum, and *analysis of student needs.

MTDS Glossary

Lesson Targets

A lesson target is a lesson-sized standards-based goal which can be accomplished within the timeframe of a single lesson period (1-3 days). The lesson target guides instruction for teacher and students with both focusing on meeting the lesson target by the end of the period. Lesson targets are specific, measurable, actionable, relevant, and timely (SMART). Lesson targets are derived by unwrapping content standards and then used to: (a) guide the development of formal and informal assessments; (b) plan instruction; and (c) facilitate self-directed student learning. A lesson target provides students with a clear understanding of what they need to know and be able to do in order to be successful. Some lesson targets (especially those that extend beyond 1 class period) may be accompanied by more detailed *success criteria. Lesson targets are sometimes written as “I Can” statements.

Analysis of Student Needs

An analysis of student needs is a detailed examination of student characteristics both individually and within various groups. Teachers use multiple sources of information about their students in order to develop an understanding of students from multiple lenses. Teachers seek to identify meaningful relationships across multiple information sources and develop conclusions about what each student needs based on their analysis of individual and whole group data sources.