Gaining Clarity on our goals.
Have you ever planned a trip? If you are a concrete- sequential and open- oriented person, you will have enjoyed organizing the route of your trip. The steps are carefully planned in order to reach the place where we go. The same image comes to my mind , when we talk about clarity on our educational aims. Have we developed clarity on the stages that enable our students to achieve understanding as a goal ? Sometimes, I have ; some others ,I have lost the way , the motivation and the energy to go on.
According to Wiggins and Mc Tighe, the backward design entails three interrelated stages. Each of them is highly connected to the other, since Stage 1 tells what to do in relation to the kind of the evidence required in Stage 2 and recommends the best learning experiences (stage 3 ) to accomplish the stated objectives. Therefore, we have to consider some important aspects found in Stage 1.
This phase has five points that we should take into account in order to gain clarity when stating the goals. This would help us to establish clear and delimited understanding objectives. It also contributes to avoid blurred aims. There are some key concepts that we have to know and understand established goals, understanding, essential questions, knowledge and skills.
It is true that teachers need to have clarity of their purposes, be motivated and energetic to provide activities which involve the students'understanding and reach a meaninful learning, in other words "find the right place"
ResponderEliminarVery good comparison! I loved it! It is absolutely true that teachers have to have clarity in their goals. It's a must for all of us! Otherwise, we'll get lost and die soon
ResponderEliminargood one! your comparison is so true! if you want something to be successful you need to be careful when planning!
ResponderEliminarI loved your simile!
ResponderEliminarIt's really clarifying... Now, sometimes I feel the same as you, I lose my way. But it's good to reflect about this so we can actually make things different, I mean better...
I completely agree with you. Planning a trip is a step by step process which is most of the time exhauting but also fun and enjoyable.In planning a lesson as in planning a trip, sooner or later unexpected events will come out, no matter how hard you had worked or how accurate you were on doing it. That is the challenging part of our job to turn the unexpected into the expected. How?I expect (to use the same word)we obtain more tools as we read this book.
ResponderEliminarI really liked your simile and I completely agree with you. It is exhausting, but we need to plan our teaching, our lessons, step by step. We need to be very careful and take into account every single aspect, for instance our students' style because most of the time we tend to yeach in the way we learn.
ResponderEliminarWe need to have clarity our goals in order to give, provide, reach and get a meaninful learning for our students.
I love planning a trip!. Good one!. It should be easy to set goals but it is not. I know that it is important to know and understand what our goals are, but it is exhausting! We have a lot of work to do.
ResponderEliminarI think the important thing is not just setting goals or following steps to reach those goals, but being clear about goals to set and why.
ResponderEliminarI really love planning a trip,I liked your simile, the same should happen when you planning,but I agree with you that we need to be motivated,otherwise it is difficul.
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