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Reflect on the following questions related to your work so far with unpacking standards and writing clear, measurable objectives...

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Reflect on the following questions related to your work so far with unpacking standards and writing clear, measurable objectives...

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How does breaking down a standard into objectives and learning targets help you as a future teacher?

Why is it important to write objectives and learning targets in student-friendly language?

What challenges did you encounter while completing this assignment (Key Assignment #1), and how did you overcome them?

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1. Breaking down standards helps you understand what you will be teaching the students. Being able to understand what your job is a little more in depth is very beneficial.

2. Writing your objectives in student friendly language can help the students understand what there goal is. Without the big teacher words students can understand what they are about to achieve

3. I found it hard to form objectives from the standards. I overcame this by using the examples and trying to match it the best I could.

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1. It helps to do it right now because im going to have to do it for every standard I teach. It helps to have seen them before I am a teacher.

2. It is important to write them in student friendly language because if I just list a bunch of standards or objectives it could be very overwhelming for students to look at and they might not understand exactly what they mean.

3. I found the types of learning targets difficult to identify, but looking at them as I was reading examples helped a little bit.

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1. I feel like breaking standards down into objectives and learning targets helps me as a future teacher because it shows me which techniques I am gonna have to use in my classroom. 2. It is important to write the objectives and learning targets in student-friendly language so that the students can understand what they are supposed to do easier. 3. I was getting product and skill mixed up.

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1. It helps to get practice on how to breakdown standards in a low stakes environment.

2. It is important to write the standards in student friendly language, so the students aren't intimidated by the standard.

3. I was having a hard time with the difference between knowledge and skill standards. That was hard for me to separate in my brain. I ended up working with Ellie at the end, which gave me another prospective.

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1. It helps me understand them more. I know with breaking down the standards into objectives and learning targets will make it easier for me to teach my students and easier to help the students understand what i’m teaching.

2. It is important to write objectives and learning targets in student friendly language so that the students will be able to understand them and know what they are learning

3. It was hard for me to break down the standard into 3 different objectives because I didn’t really understand the standard.

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I found that breaking down the standard into individual objectives and learning targets helped display the layers of an assignment. This made it easier to create a lesson plan that correlated nicely with the standard.

The importance of writing objectives and learning targets in a language that is student-friendly is profound and integral to their learning experience. Students need to be shown what it is they are being taught and for that, they need to be shown in a manner of which they will understand. Without that student-friendly manner, a breakdown in communication can and will occur.

The challenge I encountered while completing this assignment was trying to put the learning targets into words students would have no problem understanding. Being a wordy person I find myself using large words and complicated ways of explaining a concept when it could be much more simpler and precise.

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1. Unpacking standards into objectives and learning targets allows for me to understand the building blocks for creating lessons as well as creating a transparency between the teacher and student regarding what is expected of them.

2. The goal is to eliminate any confusion on what the goal of the lesson is. If the language is difficult or confusing it will simply be blown off by the student and will not achieve its desired effect.

3. I struggled mainly with the learning targets. I was confused on what they were supposed to encompass. However after class today I have a better understanding of learning targets and will improve mine in the future. During class I realized that the learning targets I had created need to be revised.

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Breaking down a standard into objectives and learning targets helps me as a future teacher because it helps show the levels as to which the students will work toward a larger goal. The learning targets and objectives lead to the goal in the end, and splitting the objective up into different learning targets makes the goal more attainable and easier to work towards each day.

It is important to write these objectives and learning targets in student-friendly language so that the students are aware of where they should be by the end of the lesson. When students know the goal, they are more likely to work towards it. It breaks the objectives into smaller goals, in which are attainable for the students.

In this assignment, I struggled with confusing the "skill" and "knowledge" learning targets. I overcame this by thinking about words like "count," which sounds like a skill but is actually knowledge, considering many other future goals will require the knowledge of counting.

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1. Breaking down a standard into objectives and learning targets allows for students and teachers to make a seemingly confusing standard into something that is achievable. This also sets your game plan for your lessons for that unit.

2. It is important to write the objectives and learning targets in a student-friendly language because it helps prevent mass confusion. Sometimes nothing can be scarier than a very difficult to comprehend standard as a teacher or student. So, writing this in a friendly language allows students to have a good understanding of the class.

3. I had a lot of trouble with second guessing myself. I always thought I was wrong with my guesses, but I understood that I was new to this. So, I just focused on the verbs and kept moving forward through the assignment.

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Breaking down a standard into learning targets and objective helps me as a future teacher because it simplifies the standards. It also gives the teacher a smaller goal to be working for daily with the students. Standards can be confusing so breaking them down can help teachers understand what needs to be taught.

It is important to write objectives and learning targets in student-friendly language because they are not only for teachers. The learning targets and objectives are what help the students outline what is expected of them in a certain time frame. If a student is not able to understand a learning targets, the bigger picture of what is being learned becomes blurry.

I think the most challenging thing about the assignment was ensuring that the end learning targets was properly aligned with the beginning standard. It can be easy to lose the overall goal of the standard when trying to break it down into smaller objectives and learning targets. Over-simplifying the standard is no help in the end since the students will not be able to fully meet the standard. The hardest part was finding the balance of breaking down the standard enough to where it is a reachable objective, but not too much to where it loses its purpose

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1- Breaking down a standard into objectives and learning targets can help you as a teacher because it can help organize your lesson for the day and you can get a clear view on what the students' needs to learn.

2- It is important to write objectives and learning targets in student friendly language because depending on the grade level you are teaching the students may not know what the big words you are using, you want it to be clear for the student.

3- One challenge I encountered was deciding between if something was knowledge or skill because they sound a bit similar in the learning targets. The way I overcome them was re-read it multiple times until I find the key word the clicked in my brain.

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1. Being able to practice breaking down standards in an environment with no consequences helps me get a better understanding of standards, objectives and learning targets. Because of this environment I can't mess up a student's learning with a badly broken down standard, all it is right now is practice to get better and to get the level of being able to do it in front of students.

2. The learning targets we create are for us to understand what we need to learn, but more importantly they are for the students so that they know what they will be learning what to do on a set day. Putting it in student friendly language helps them as if we were to put up the standard they would have no idea what they are learning. The standards language is too complicated and it is up to us to break it down for them.

3. One challenge was reading the standard, as it the language of it was a little difficult, but after taking it slow and steady I grasped what the standard was trying to say.

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Breaking down a standard into objectives and learning targets can help you better understand the exact content that you as the teacher need to get across to students. By breaking these standards down, you can ensure that your lessons and assessments are aligned to the standard and your students’ learning.

It is even more important to write your objectives and learning targets in an accurate, student-friendly way to ensure that your expectations for the lesson are clear. In doing so, your students know exactly what they need to understand and learn each day to stay on track for successful progression.

Matching Bloom’s taxonomy to the learning targets was challenging for me because the concept was relatively unfamiliar. I had heard about Bloom’s taxonomy before, but I struggled with categorizing the words into the correct terms and action verbs. To overcome this, I tried to break down each learning target and put myself in the student’s place by asking what I would need to do to meet that target. I then was able to analyze the process and better understand what classification of Bloom’s taxonomy I would be using to complete the assignment.

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1) Breaking down the standard allows the teacher to take initiative when it comes to his/her lesson plans. We need to break down the standard so the teacher can teach what she is supposed to rather than getting the wrong idea or interpretation about the standard and everything she teaches will not accomplish the standard.

2) It is important to write objectives and learning targets in student-friendly language because it helps the student understand what they will be learning. The standard is not always easy to comprehend so we break it down, so it is easier to learn.

3)The challenges I encountered included the different types of learning targets. I am having a hard time classifying each of them as well as understanding them. I am overcoming this by re-reading each definition and giving each an example so that next time I can identify each one.

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Breaking down standards into objectives and learning targets helps me as a teacher because it gives me a clearer understanding of what the standard is saying. It helps me break down the standard into different targets I can teach and different lessons I can create.

It is important to write objectives and learning targets into friendly language because it makes it easier for the students to understand what we will be learning and why it's important.

One of the challenges I faced in Key Assignment 1 was trying to create a degree to which the student needed to master the skills.

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When breaking down standards into objectives and learning targets it allows you to understnad the standard at hand. When picking it apart you are able to make sure your object and learning targets align with your standard you are deeling with which allows your students to be able to understand the content in the best way possible. This allows for the teacher to teach what she is meant to teach and follow the guidlines.

Its important to write objectives and learning targets into student friendly language because they need to be able to understand what is expected of them. If they dont understand what is being asked they are not going to be able to put in their best work and effort.

I was a little confused about making sure I pulled out at many objectives from my standard and applied them through my learning targets. I overcame it by going through my notes and what we had done in class and through the avenues you showed us.

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1.Breaking down a standard into objectives and learning targets helps simplify what we are doing making what we are doing more understandable.

2. This important so students are aware of what they are learning trying to understand.

3.I struggled most with trying to break the standard into more then one objective. I actually did not overcome this and just submitted one.

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Breaking down a standard into objectives and learning targets helps me as a future teacher by making lessons more structured and ensuring that students build their skills step by step. It also helps with planning assessments that align with what students are expected to learn.

Writing objectives in student-friendly language is important because it makes learning clearer and more accessible. When students understand what they’re working toward, they stay more engaged and confident in their progress.

One of the challenges I faced was making sure that my goals aligned with the standard were clear and understandable. I overcame this by thinking about complex ideas in simpler terms and focusing on what students should be able to do at the end of a lesson by putting myself as if I were my own student.

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Breaking down standards into objectives and learning targets helps me as a future teacher because it helps me visualize what is needed in each standard. It also helps me to see what I will need to do to make sure each student will meet the learning targets in the fututre.

It is important to write objectives in a student friendly laungauge because it needs to be understood by all students so they are sure to know what they need to be learning.

The challenges I had encountered while complelting my key assignment #1 was not knowing what to write for my learning targets. I knew they were "I can" statements but I wasn't sure what to write for them until I asked a friend.

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Breaking down standards into objectives and learning targets will help me as a future teacher because it will help break things apart and make topics more teachable and easier for both the student and the teacher to understand. It is important to write objectives and learning targets in student friendly language so that the students can understand what is to be expected of them, and what they will be doing for the time being. Students will better grasp the topic when they know what it is that they will be taught. I encountered the most challenges with a couple of the different verbs that were used in the PE standards that may have thrown me off a little bit. The hardest part for me was knowing the differences between the different targets, but Bloom's was pretty easy for the most part.

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Breaking down a standard into objectives not only benefits the teacher but it benefits the students. Breaking down your standards as a teacher and making them smaller learning targets benefits the teacher because it ensures that your students are understanding every part of the material you cover. This also benefits the students too because it makes it less stressful when your learning is broken into chunks.

It is important to write objectives in student friendly language because your students are the ones you are teaching. The objectives and standards are all written out to ensure that all students stay on their learning path throughout k-12. Also as a student myself I can say some of these objectives are very difficult to break down and understand.

It has been very difficult for me to break down each standard and write out objectives. I know with time it will be easier for me, but for now I need more practice.

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It helps to make the gaudy language used by the standards more palatable to us so that we can better understand how to utilize them for our instruction. Objectives help us see the individual goals of a standard more clearly, while learning targets make this information digestible for our students. This allows us to have more concrete things to strive for during instruction and, in turn, assists us with planning lessons and assessments that will best serve our students.

Students need to feel included and acknowledged in their own learning process--if they don't know what they are working towards and why, they are less likely to want to engage with the content in a meaningful way. Having objectives and learning targets that are not understandable to them shows them that their role in the process of learning is not important to the teacher. On the other hand, having learning targets that are friendly for students allows them to feel less stress as they know what is expected of them, makes them feel generally more in charge of their own learning, and gives them a strong sense of what direction they can take to improve.

The aspect of this key assignment that I found most challenging was familiarizing myself with the organization of the standards. The way that the standards were broken apart was different from anything I had seen in class prior. The primary difference was the organization by proficiency levels; I had to be very careful to keep everything I was writing on the same level of proficiency. Apart from the main standards, which reflected general competency in broad areas (intercultural, interpersonal, and presentational communication, as well as interpretive reading/listening), there were several performance indicators for each proficiency level, which were marked similarly to a standard and written like an "I can" statement. Apart from the main standard I was writing objectives for, I also needed to take into consideration the three separate performance indicators and their various areas of application (in this case, writing and speaking). All of this made for a more complex collection of information to consider when writing objectives that reached deeper than simply analyzing the main objective. To get past this, I first needed to decide which proficiency level to focus my objectives on. As I am currently at an "advanced low" proficiency, I thought it would be easiest to write suitable objectives for the "intermediate mid" proficiency, so that they would still be fairly complex, but I also would have my real world experience acquiring the language to aid me. Then, I looked at the three different performance indicators for the intermediate mid proficiency level in my chosen standard and tried to write one objective based on each performance indicator. Then, when writing all of my "I can" statements, I used the sample learning targets provided with the standards to aid me, focusing one "I can" statement on writing skills and the other on speaking skills. Once I had organized it this way, I was able to come up with a satisfying product that incorporated all of these elements.

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1. Breaking down the standard into objectives and learning targets will help me be more clear and direct with what we're doing and how we're going to do it in the classroom.

2. It's important to write objectives and learning targets in student-friendly language because it's important to make sure that students understand what they are supposed to be doing in the classroom.

3. A challenge I ecountered was try to make my learning targets not repetative and clear.

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1. Breaking down a standard into objectives and learning targets makes it easier for the teachers to understand and the students to understand. It helps the teacher stay on track to what needs to be taught to the students and helps the students focus on what they need to lean for that individual lesson.

2. It's important to write objectives and learning targets in student friendly language so that the students have a clear focus on what they need to be taking away from the lesson. This also helps students understand what they're learning and why they are learning it. The simple learning target statements and easy to comprehend and reduce confusion leading to better focus.

3. The challenges I encountered when doing key assignment 1 were finding the big ideas and figuring out which ideas needed to be translated to the objectives. The way I solved that was by breaking up the ideas and putting them into three separate objectives. I thought that it was easier to put one big idea into one objective.

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1) Breaking down standards into objectives and learning targets esp us as future teachers because, it gives us the ability to thoroughly understand what we need to teach. once we Nederland the objectives and learning targets ourselves then we will be able to teach our students better and make sure they understand to their full capabilities.

2) Standards in all grade levels are written in very complex and hard ways to understand, once they are broken down into a more kid friendly way it gives them better understanding. Once they have a better understanding they will be able to break it down into their own “I can” statements and learn the content to the best of their abilities.

3) My challenges with Key Assignment 1 was probably trying to make multiple objectives for one standard. This made it difficult because Iran out of ways to rephrase the standard I chose. I was able to overcome this b reading more into the standard on the KY standards website and being able to understand more of what kids had to accomplish such as strategies and mental memorization.

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Breaking down a standard into objectives and learning targets help because it can all you to see it on different level thus giving you a since on what you are working towards. It also helps you focus on certain skills and knowledge that students need to learn or might need to work on. Another thing breaking a target down can do is allow you to make it student friendly so they can better understand what you are asking of them. And that kind of leads into the next question of why it is important to write objectives and learning targets in a student friendly language. Some standards are written in ways the even some teacher can have trouble reading them so if the objectives and learning targets are rewritten for the students then they might not know what they are trying to accomplish. When completing key assessment #1 I struggled with trying to take the objective and word it into learning target that will effectively give the students and idea of what they are trying to do.

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1.) Breaking down a standard into objectives and learning targets helps me understand the standard when it has a lot of concepts to cover. Breaking down a standard also makes it easier to come up with activities and assignments for students.

2.) It is important to write objectives and learning targets in student-friendly language so it's easier for the students to understand. Many standards and objectives are very confusing and contain a lot of criteria, so writing the learning targets in student-friendly language not only helps the students understand better, but the teachers too.

3.) I struggled a little bit with the learning targets. After I wrote them I realized they were too confusing for the grade level I was writing them for (3rd Grade) and I needed to change them to make them easier to read.

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1. Being able to practice breaking down a standard into objectives and learning targets helps me realize that there is a difference between the two. I now know that it is important for the learning target to be very specific and to help the students (and the teacher) stay on task.

2. It is important to write objectives and learning targets in student-friendly language, so the students understand what the task is for that day. Standards can be very confusing, so it is important to relay the message through learning targets.

3. I had a difficult time coming up with two separate learning targets. I just remembered that they had to match the standard -- reminding myself that it was just another leaf off of the branch made it easier for me.

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1- It can take to complicated standards with hard wording and break in down in simplier terms we can understand, and it helps guide us along, like a roadmap!

2- When we put it in student friendly terms it is easier for students to clearly understand what they need to learn.

3- I found it challenging to find multiple learning targets for an objective. I tended to be to general what I first wrote them and I had to go back and rethink, then I ended up with better learning targets!

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Breaking down a standard into objectives helps me actually understand what needs to be taught, and it gives me a goal. Learning targets give me a day by day on what needs to happen and what students need to learn.

It is important to use student friendly language because students having objectives and learning targets that they can easily understand helps them learn the content.

The main challenge I encountered was actually getting three objectives from a single standard. I understand that not every objective doesn't need three, but it really took me a while to figure three out.

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1) This helps me as a future teacher by breaking down the objectives and learning standards because it helps me to know more in depth of what the students need to learn, and how I can get them to this spot they need to get to.

2) It is important to write objectives in student friendly launguage because I think students need to be able to know what they are supposed to be learning as well

3) The challeneges I had encountered with this assignemnt was understanding how to correctly fill out a learning target to correctly align with the standard.

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Breaking a standard into objectives and learning targets is key to being an effective teacher. This process provides clarity and focus as a future teacher, allowing me to understand precisely what students need to learn. By dissecting a standard into multiple components, I can tailor my instruction to meet specific goals, ensuring that lessons are both meaningful and achievable. Writing objectives and learning targets in student-friendly language is crucial for several reasons. Firstly, it enhances student comprehension. When objectives are clear and straightforward, students are better able to grasp what is expected of them. This clarity helps reduce confusion and allows students to focus more on the learning process rather than trying to decipher complex language. The challenge I faced in Key Assignment #1 was finding the best standard and finding the big idea because it's hard to pick it out and the different learning targets were difficult to come up with.