Mesquite ISD

Teacher designs lessons that provide opportunities for learners to transform their products and ideas by working together.

Teacher designs lessons that depend upon learners partnering across global platforms to create collective solutions or products.

Teacher designs lessons where learners seek and accept input from global sources to advance the creation of collective solutions and products.

Teacher designs experiences where learners work together to create collective solutions or products using digital tools.

Teacher designs activities where each learner actively participates to contribute ideas for a shared goal using digital tools.

Teacher creates experiences in which learners can share ideas and take risks.

Teacher maintains a safe environment for learners to share and combine their ideas globally.

Teacher creates systems for learners to safely share their ideas globally.

Teacher creates a safe environment for learners to share and combine ideas using digital tools.

Teacher encourages learners to contribute ideas using digital tools.

Learner Behavior

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Learners employ different tools to interact with others in order to create a product or solution built from collective ideas.

Learners leverage strengths and ideas of themselves and others when partnering across global platforms to create collective solutions or products.

Learners seek and accept input from global sources to advance the creation of collective solutions and products.

Learners work together to create collective solutions or products using digital tools.

Learners actively participate to contribute ideas for a shared goal using digital tools.

Teacher designs lessons that foster the sharing of ideas and provides students the autonomy to be curious.

• Teacher consistently designs lessons that are dependent on learner-initiated inquiry.
• Teacher designs lessons that are dependent upon the global sharing of ideas by learners.

• Teacher frequently designs lessons that encourage student-initiated inquiry.
• Teacher designs lessons that encourage the global sharing of ideas by learners.

• Teacher sometimes designs lessons that encourage student-initiated inquiry.
• Teacher designs lessons that encourage the sharing of ideas by learners.

• Teacher seldom designs lessons that allow student-initiated inquiry.
• Teacher designs lessons that allow learners to share what they are curious about.

Teacher models curiosity, risk-taking, and perseverance.

• Teacher consistently raises questions through discussion and brainstorming.
• Teacher consistently models risk-taking and perseverance.

• Teacher frequently raises questions through discussion and brainstorming.
• Teacher frequently models risk-taking and perseverance.

• Teacher sometimes raises questions through discussion and brainstorming.
• Teacher sometimes models risk-taking and perseverance.

• Teacher seldom raises questions through discussion and brainstorming.
• Teacher seldom models risk-taking and perseverance.

Learner Behavior

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Learners develop and seek answers to their own questions.

Learners consistently develop relevant questions, use a variety of resources to seek answers to their questions, and synthesize their answers to share their findings with a global audience.

Learners develop relevant questions, use a variety of resources to find answers to their questions, and synthesize their answers to share their findings.

Learners develop questions, seek answers to their questions, and share their findings.

Learners develop questions and share what they are curious about.

Learners actively participate and take risks throughout the learning process.

Learners consistently take risks and persevere while using global resources during the learning process.

Learners frequently take risks and persevere during the learning process.

Learners sometimes take risks and persevere during the learning process.

Learners seldom take risks or persevere during the learning process.

• Teacher skillfully provokes and guides discussion inside the classroom and with global audiences to enhance the learning product.
• Teacher expects students to present ideas and participate in conversations with a variety of targeted audiences such as experts, community members or global audiences to refine their product.

• Teacher intentionally plans for conversations aligned to the learning objectives to occur inside the classroom and with global audiences.
• Teacher expects students to present ideas and products using digital tools to global audiences.

• Teacher intentionally plans for conversations aligned to the learning objectives to occur among students.
• Teacher encourages students to present ideas and products using digital tools to a variety of audiences.

• Teacher intentionally plans for conversations aligned to the learning objectives to occur between the teacher and students.
• Teacher encourages students to present ideas and products using digital tools.

• Learners participate consistently in conversations with a variety of audiences and use feedback to enhance their products.
• Learners present relevant ideas using digital tools to a variety of targeted audiences such as experts, community members, or global audiences to gain feedback.

• Learners participate in conversations with global audiences.
• Learners present ideas using digital tools to global audiences.

• Learners participate in conversations using a variety of digital tools within the classroom.
• Learners present ideas using digital tools to a variety of audiences.

• Learners participate in conversations with the teacher using digital tools.
• Learners create presentations using digital tools.

Teacher creates experiences for students in multiple learning contexts that expose them to future opportunities.

Teacher consistently develops lessons that empower students to choose from multiple learning activities and create meaningful applications outside the classroom across subject areas.

Teacher empowers students to choose from multiple learning activities to connect their current learning to the real world or across subject areas.

Teacher designs learning activities that enable learners to discover the connections between current learning and real-world application.

Teacher demonstrates the connections between current learning and real-world applications.

Teacher fosters and accepts diverse thinking and products.

Teacher designs lessons that require the unique perspectives of all learners to create a product reflective of the group.

Teacher designs lessons that depend on the unique perspectives of all learners during the learning process.

Teacher designs lessons that enable learners to assess the perspectives of others during the learning process.

Teacher designs lessons that enable learners to bring their own perspective into the learning process

Learner Behavior

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Learners connect learning to meaningful real-world experiences.

Learners identify differences in personal experiences and choose activities to build connections between learning objectives, personal experiences, and experiences of others.

Learners choose experiences to build connections between learning objectives, personal experiences, and experiences of others.

Learners identify and analyze connections between learning objectives, personal experiences, and experiences of others.

Learners make connections between learning objectives and personal experiences

• Learners analyze digital resources for validity and relevance.
• Learners advocate against negative and inaccurate content online.
• Learners follow copyright and fair use guidelines.
• Learners follow online privacy and safety practices.

• Learners use relevant and valid digital resources.
• Learners respond appropriately when encountering negative and inaccurate content online.
• Learners follow copyright and fair use guidelines.
• Learners follow online privacy and safety practices.

• Learners identify relevant and valid digital resources.
• Learners identify negative and inaccurate content online.
• Learners follow copyright and fair use guidelines.
• Learners follow online privacy and safety practices.

• Learners understand the difference between valid and invalid resources.
• Learners understand there is negative and inaccurate content online.
• Learners follow copyright and fair use guidelines.
• Learners follow online privacy and safety practices.

Teacher provides a variety of relevant choices at different learning levels to address individual student needs.

Teacher consistently uses technology tools to provide a variety of relevant choices at different learning levels to address individual student needs.

Teacher frequently uses technology tools to provide a variety of choices at different learning levels to address individual student needs.

Teacher sometimes uses technology tools to differentiate content, processes, and student products within instructional methods.

Teacher seldom uses technology tools to differentiate content, processes, and student products within instructional methods.

Teacher designs formative assessments and responds to feedback by adjusting instruction.

Teacher consistently uses technology to assess learners and immediately utilizes feedback to adjust instruction based on individual learner needs.

Teacher frequently uses technology to assess learners and utilizes feedback to adjust instruction for specific groups of learners.

Teacher sometimes uses technology to assess learners and utilizes feedback to adjust whole group instruction.

Teacher seldom uses technology tools to assess learners and adjust instruction.

Learner Behavior

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Learners take ownership of their growth and are willing to make choices throughout the learning process.

Learners use self-assessment to understand their strengths and weaknesses and develop learning strategies.

Learners understand their instructional needs based on their self-assessment and select learning strategies.

Learners reflect on their instructional needs based on the teacher’s formative assessment and take part in learning strategies that meet their needs.

Learners identify their instructional needs based on teacher’s formative assessment.

Learners provide authentic feedback to teachers about their current level of understanding.

Learners consistently use technology to reflect on their thinking and learning processes.

Learners frequently use technology to reflect on their thinking and learning processes.

Learners sometimes use technology to reflect on their thinking and learning processes.

Learners seldom use technology to reflect on their thinking and learning processes.