Halifax August 2013

1. Planning The Learning Experiences
For A Lesson
Learning Experiences:
 Are developed after you have
designed the performance task
 Are the content,
understandings and skills that
a teacher will need to teach
and students will need to learn
in order to effectively complete
the performance task.
Planning With The End In Mind
Performance Task Template
[What] Topic
[Why] Generalization(s)
[How] Student Performance
The End

2. Questions to Consider
• Do your learning experiences align back to applicable
standards and clarifying objectives?
• Do the learning experiences allow students to engage in the
learning with experiences that would will prepare them to
meet the expectations of the ultimate performance?

3. A Learning Experience IS …
 Work that allows the learner
to have direct experience with
a specific action, task, or
process that will prepare them
for the performance task.
A Learning Experience IS NOT…
 The activity alone
A Learning Experience

4. Let’s View A Few Examples
Activity Performance Generalization (What
Students Should
Understand)
• Recite from memory
key passages from the
Gettysburg Address.
• In a speech recite passages you have
learned from Lincoln’s Gettysburg
Address and tell why these passages
provide evidence to support the Address
being considered a watershed event in
American History.
• Watershed events mark
turning point in history.
• Design a graphic
organizer demonstrating
the U.S. system of
checks and balances.
• Design a graphic organizer
demonstrating the U.S. system of checks
and balances. Use the information in that
graphic organizer to write a defense as to
why they think the system of checks and
balances reflects American values and
beliefs.
• The values, beliefs, and
ideals of a country are
reflected in their laws and
political documents.
• Draw a Venn diagram
showing the
comparisons between
life as a Athenian citizen
and life as a Spartan
citizen.
• Draw a Venn diagram showing the
comparisons between life as a Athenian
citizen and life as a Spartan citizen. Use
this diagram to support a speech that
could be given to someone from ancient
Egypt whom you are trying to convince to
come live in Sparta or in Athens.
• People are often
introduced to new goods,
ideas and opportunities as
they move from one place
to another.
Example One
Example Two
Example Three

5. Practice
 Craft deliberate learning experiences that will lead
students to successfully demonstrating their knowledge,
understanding and skills of the learning.
 Working with your partners, craft appropriate and
deliberate learning experiences that align with the
standards, generalizations, and performance task!