MTDS Terms and Phrases
Learning Experiences
Learning experiences can be thought of as “the means for students to comprehend” the standards (Ainsworth, p. 159).
While activities, task, strategies, and/or assessment can be understood as individual learning components, creating a learning experience relies on an intentional designing and/or sequencing of these components in combination to provide students with “experiences [that] produce personal insights that are deeper and longer lasting than explanations” (Ainsworth, p. 159).
Learning experiences:
While activities, task, strategies, and/or assessment can be understood as individual learning components, creating a learning experience relies on an intentional designing and/or sequencing of these components in combination to provide students with “experiences [that] produce personal insights that are deeper and longer lasting than explanations” (Ainsworth, p. 159).
Learning experiences:
- Provide experiential learning
- Include multiple standards-based tasks with aligned formative assessments
- Provide students with intentional alignment & progression of thinking levels
- Utilize of a mixture of methods and/or strategies
- Incorporate high interest student-centered approaches with students making their own connections to standards while developing concepts and skills
- Foster interdisciplinary connections and/or the solving of local/global challenges
- Combine elements of engaging qualities of work, higher-level thinking, and high-yield instructional strategies (Antonetti)