{"id":55,"date":"2018-11-27T13:37:29","date_gmt":"2018-11-27T18:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/eportfolio-sample\/?page_id=55"},"modified":"2021-05-10T12:22:32","modified_gmt":"2021-05-10T16:22:32","slug":"understanding-goals","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat21-aireland\/learning-teaching-portraits\/portrait-i-overview\/understanding-goals\/","title":{"rendered":"Understanding Goals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Throughout this unit, students not only learned valuable information about the Midwest, Southwest, and West Regions of the United States, but they learned how to conduct their own research on a topic and present what they have discovered.&nbsp; This is not only an important life skill, but it is empowering for the students as well.&nbsp; In order to prepare them for this research, the direct instruction portion of the unit was structured to maximize participation, personal connections, and opinion formation.&nbsp; This took the form of checks for understanding in the form of collaboration boards, open ended questions, polls, and a choice in virtual field trip.&nbsp; In her book <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Teaching Essentials, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">author Regie Routman states that \u201cwe teachers need to set up and structure our learning environments to encourage participation that supports students\u2019 approximations and responses.\u201d&nbsp; This early focus on participation paved the way for the latter portion of the unit, which was sculpted by the students, their interests, and their participation.&nbsp; Without students&#8217; personal investment in the topic, the presentations would not be a success.&nbsp; But by ensuring that students form connections with the topic of study early on in the unit by making choices and sharing their opinions during class discussions, I ensured they carried that enthusiasm into their research and delivered meaningful presentations that taught the class what they have discovered through their independent and collaborative research.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Throughout this unit, students not only learned valuable information about the Midwest, Southwest, and West Regions of the United States, but they learned how to conduct their own research on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat21-aireland\/learning-teaching-portraits\/portrait-i-overview\/understanding-goals\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Understanding Goals<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":703,"featured_media":0,"parent":52,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-55","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat21-aireland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat21-aireland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat21-aireland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat21-aireland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/703"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat21-aireland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat21-aireland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/55\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat21-aireland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat21-aireland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}