April+18th,+2012


 * April 18, 2012**

Define the learning plan (Stage 3) to help students acquire targeted knowledge and skills, make meaning of big ideas, and effectively transfer their learning in the future.
 * Purpose: **


 * Participants will understand that: **
 * There are three distinct kinds of learning—acquisition (A), meaning (M), and transfer (T)---and the Stage 3 learning plan should appropriately address each.
 * The roles of teachers and students vary according to the A-M-T goals.
 * Acquisition of knowledge and of skill is not the long-term goal but the means to understanding and transfer ability.


 * Participants will be able to: **
 * Refine their unit by developing a learning plan that reflects meaning and transfer as the ends, and content knowledge and skill as the means.
 * Identify appropriate instruction and learning events for the various A-M-T goals.


 * Agenda: **


 * Structured Response Sheet for Today's Learning: [[file:SRS- LM 4-18-12.docx]]
 * PowerPoint: [[file:PowerPoint- LM 4-18-12-1.pptx]]


 * Video: Grant Discusses Stage 3: (.57)Grant Discusses Stage 3
 * Activity #1: Worksheet on determining Stage 3: [[file:Activity #1.docx]]


 * Video: Grant discusses teaching via essential questions (1:39): Grant Discusses Teaching Via Essential Questions


 * Handout: Design Tips- Stage 3: [[file:Design_Tips_STAGE_3-1.pdf]]


 * Video: The Role of the Textbook and UbD (.37) The Role of the Textbook


 * Video: Grant Discusses Acquisition, Meaning Making and Transfer (1:55) Grant Discusses AMT


 * Handout: Tips on Teaching for Transfer: [[file:GW_Tips_on_Teaching_for_Transfer(1).doc]]


 * Articles: **
 * High School Teachers: AMT as a Key to High School Reform: [[file:Educational Leadership:Reshaping High Schools:Put Understanding First.pdf]]


 * Middle School & Elem Teachers: Article with Exercises in Acquisition, Meaning & Transfer:[[file:LearnforUnderstandAMT.doc]]


 * The 4 A's Protocol: [[file:Four_As_table_3_.docx]]


 * Planning Time