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Building Learning Paths With Students
Professional Learning Workshop
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Discover strategies for translating large-grain goals into relevant learning experiences for your students that give them voice and choice.
Create a road map for student achievement
Practice using goals to create unit plans that promote student agency and learning success (InTASC Standard 7: Planning).* Prepare an action plan informed by peer feedback.
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Explore skills related to building learning paths with students
Part 1
- Examine large goals to identify success routes.
- Design and sequence common learning experiences and tasks aligned to the large goals, and make content relevant to students.
Part 2
- Anticipate specific needs or misconceptions and address them by planning scaffolds or differentiated options.
- Devise ways to support students in taking responsibility for identifying learning challenges and using resources to support their progress.
Part 3
- Prepare learning experiences that allow for learner choice and for varied routes to the same goal.
- Collaborate with learners in identifying student-made goals to reach large goals, explore personal interests, and achieve aspirations.
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Track your growth
This learning experience is designed to support you along a professional growth continuum as you enhance your planning knowledge and skills. As you progress, youāll empower your students to be co-owners of learning goals, purposes, and paths.
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Designed with you in mind
Featuring nine total hours of professional skill practice and application, two convenient options are available to accommodate your schedule:
- Three 3-hour parts
- One whole-day, 6-hour session and one half-day, 3-hour session
Youāll participate in six hours of active learning and three hours of guided action planning. Your NWEA representative will help determine the best on-site or virtual delivery option to meet your needs.
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On-site learning
Face-to-face session with a consultant
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Virtual learning
Live instruction through our online portal
*Adapted by permission from the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO), InTASC Model Core Teaching Standards and Learning Progressions for Teachers 1.0: A Resource for Ongoing Teacher Development (Washington, DC: CCSSO, 2013), 34ā37, https://ccsso.org/sites/default/files/2017-12/2013_INTASC_Learning_Progressions_for_Teachers.pdf. Creative Commons License (CC BY 4.0), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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