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With a little help from my vice principal at the time, Tom Schimmer, this was a relatively easy question to address. In his previous school, Tom had been using student-friendly unit plans that clearly delineatedlearning targets—what a student needed to be able to do during each unit. I began using learning targets in my senior history courses. I laid out all unit requirements under one of the following headings:
I presented each target as an "I can" statement, which made it easier for students to understand the target and take ownership of reaching it.