Indicator

I.E.1

A sufficient number of home learning opportunities that enhance learning are planned.

Definition(s) and/or Explanation(s)

Home-Learning tasks provide learners with opportunities to:

Practice - Learners are provided with opportunities to reinforce newly acquired learning.

Preparation - Learners obtain knowledge necessary to establish prerequisites for new learning.

Extension/Application - Learners go beyond completed learning tasks and extend newly acquired knowledge.

Enhancing/Thinking Skills - Learners enhance their abilities to think.

Sufficiency of opportunities includes consideration of the number and complexity of learning objectives and unit goals and learner characteristics, such as the range of developmental and ability levels and the acquisition of prior knowledge.

Assignments should be relatively brief and provide practice across learning objectives.

Classroom Examples

Elementary

As part of a fourth-grade Florida geography unit on bodies of water, the PLAN includes, among others, the following home-learning assignments for week one of the two week unit:

  1. In preparation for the unit, learners read the chapter on Florida bodies of water and answer the questions at the end.
  2. In order to provide practice, after an introductory lesson, learners label and briefly describe five of the various bodies of water in and around Florida.
  3. In order to extend and apply knowledge after watching a film about Lake Okeechobee, learners write a short fictional story about a camping trip to the lake. Stories should accurately reflect the climate and the wildlife of Lake Okeechobee.

Secondary

As part of an eighth-grade language arts unit on The Diary of Anne Frank, the PLAN includes, among others, the following home-learning assignments:

  1. In preparation for reading, learners write two ten item lists about Anne Frank and/or the Holocaust:
  1. Things I know
  2. Things I want to know
  1. Throughout the unit, learners maintain an elements of literature chart describing characters and setting and listing important plot points.

Indicator

 

I.E.1 continued

Definition(s) and/or Explanation(s)

Classroom Examples


C. In order to enhance the development of thinking skills, toward the end of the book, learners are asked to describe each character using two adjectives, and to provide an explanation for why these adjectives are appropriate.

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