Greenville Junior High and South Middle School have been working hard on professional development. One of the areas of professional development involves taking the State Standards per subject area and breaking them down into more easily understandable...kid friendly language. The teachers have worked 
by department to translate the standards into somethiing called a Learning Target, or I Can Statement. As the students approach the lesson for each day, they have a Learning Target or I Can statement presented to them so they know what the goal is for the day. I recenlty captured Ms. Colley's 7th Grade Language Arts Class in action working on a review game that involved Learning Targets. Students were to select two learning targets they had been working on over the course of the last five weeks. They then had to develop a game that involved questions and answers regarding those two particular Learning Targets. Students would then have an opportunity to play all the games in the class and review at the same time. The kids working on this particular project were smiling, learning, reviewing, and
completely engaged in the activity. The activity was an excellent activity and example of a way to incoporate the Learning Targets into the classroom. The activity showed how State Standards had been broken down into Learning Targets and then incorporated into a classroom setting/activity where kids were completely engaged.
Pictured are the Learning Targets the students could select from as well as a picture of the game/project currently under construction by: Breann Menger, Katie Brinley, Sarah Branden, and Haley Baker. This particular game was called Twisterland, which they described as a combination of Monopoly and Candyland. The two Learning Tagets the students selected were: I can identify prefixes, suffixes, and roots and also I can use word parts. Directions included rolling a dice and answering questions related to the Learning Targets. The students created the questions and answers, the game board, and took photographs of historical landmarks in Greenville. To win the game, one must answer the questions correctly to be the first one to reach the photograph of the Statue of Annie Oakely and save the city of Greenville from a Twister!!!
This was just one example of the projects/games being created. Special thanks to our students and Ms. Colley for their hard work and efforts.
by department to translate the standards into somethiing called a Learning Target, or I Can Statement. As the students approach the lesson for each day, they have a Learning Target or I Can statement presented to them so they know what the goal is for the day. I recenlty captured Ms. Colley's 7th Grade Language Arts Class in action working on a review game that involved Learning Targets. Students were to select two learning targets they had been working on over the course of the last five weeks. They then had to develop a game that involved questions and answers regarding those two particular Learning Targets. Students would then have an opportunity to play all the games in the class and review at the same time. The kids working on this particular project were smiling, learning, reviewing, and
completely engaged in the activity. The activity was an excellent activity and example of a way to incoporate the Learning Targets into the classroom. The activity showed how State Standards had been broken down into Learning Targets and then incorporated into a classroom setting/activity where kids were completely engaged.Pictured are the Learning Targets the students could select from as well as a picture of the game/project currently under construction by: Breann Menger, Katie Brinley, Sarah Branden, and Haley Baker. This particular game was called Twisterland, which they described as a combination of Monopoly and Candyland. The two Learning Tagets the students selected were: I can identify prefixes, suffixes, and roots and also I can use word parts. Directions included rolling a dice and answering questions related to the Learning Targets. The students created the questions and answers, the game board, and took photographs of historical landmarks in Greenville. To win the game, one must answer the questions correctly to be the first one to reach the photograph of the Statue of Annie Oakely and save the city of Greenville from a Twister!!!
This was just one example of the projects/games being created. Special thanks to our students and Ms. Colley for their hard work and efforts.
