Professional Documents
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Trina Zimmerman
Student Teaching
February 3, 2019
Written Assignment #4
Lesson Mastery
Part One
My cooperative teacher does “learning targets” and “success criteria” for her
objectives. I believe this is a school-wide decision. My cooperative teacher has taught the
students that their learning targets are what they are learning and the knowledge they are
gaining inside their heads. The learning targets are what they should be able to know after the
lesson and be able to explain to others when they have mastered the target. The success
criteria is what students do in order to show what they have learned. It is was they do with
their hands and or with their actions. The success criteria contains those measurable verbs.
My cooperative teacher and I have been focusing on our learning targets and success
criteria this quarter. There is a learning target board in the front of the classroom where we
post all of our targets and success criteria for the week. The targets are in protective slips
with magnets, so we move the targets to the smaller whiteboard during the lessons. The
second grade team also puts the learning targets in their PowerPoints. They only put the
success criteria in the PowerPoints. I’ve started to add the learning targets to the PowerPoints
the team makes. I have also added these two images of a brain and a hand that my
cooperative teacher has on her learning target whiteboard to help the students remember what
grade team makes with the success criteria posted. The image on the right is how I have
been posting the objectives for ELA when I took the subject over. I prefer only having the
learning targets on one slide. I think this helps kids focus on the learning targets, and makes
it easier to tell the students their targets to help them better understand what they are going to
accomplish. In Unit D Wong says,” If students know what they are to learn, you increase the
changes that they will learn.” This is something I am and will continue to remember as I
teach future lessons. One thing I want to try to incorporate in this week’s lessons is reflecting
on the learning targets with the students. I want to have students reflect on whether or not
For this particular lesson I think the measurable objectives were alright. I’m still not
too confident in creating my objectives for a lesson. I find myself over analyzing my
objectives and am struggling with making sure the objective are measurable This lesson had
students re-read pages 4-12 in their text with their elbow partner and then answer questions.
The assignment was a familiar format to the students. The assignment was clearly stated and
students knew what to accomplish. Majority of the lesson was engaged time. I walked around
the room during this time to help students who needed extra support. Students spent the time
Part Two
Criterion Reference test for relevant content: