Episode 93 - Constructing Goals for Student Learning

Welcome fellow Recovering Traditionalists to Episode 93.  Today we are looking at Constructing Goals for Student Learning. Typical lesson plans are focused on what students will be able to do, that’s putting a focus on the performance of your students.  When you create learning goals, you are putting a focus on what your students will understand. This week I’m sharing an article with you. One of the things I really appreciate about this article is how they differentiate between learning goals and performance goals.  Go over to buildmathminds.com/93 to get links to resources mentioned in this episode.

Om Podcasten

The Build Math Minds podcast is for my fellow Recovering Traditionalists out there. If you don’t know whether or not you are a Recovering Traditionalist, here’s how I define us. We are math educators who used to teach math the traditional way. Flip lesson by lesson in the textbook, directly teaching step-by-step how to solve math problems. But now, we are working to change that to a style of teaching math that is fun and meets our students where they are at, not just teaching what comes next in the textbook. We want to encourage our students to be thinkers, problem solvers, and lovers of mathematics..we are wanting to build our students math minds and not just create calculators. If that is you, then this podcast is for you.