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 * ~ **[[file:What is an Environment.pptx]]How do I ensure that students meet standards—and meet enough of them to make the effort worthwhile—in open-ended activities and projects?** ||~  ||
 * Pros || Cons ||
 * Lessons are developed to cover the standards. || The time it takes to make this lessons ||

In my school/classroom the students have difficulty with locating the main idea in their reading. They then have a problem with stating it in their writing.

I would like to create a unit that would improve their understanding of the main idea in a text and be able to state it in their writing with complete sentences.

__**1.2.1 Response to Examining Good Instructional Design:**__ It is important to have well planned instruction and be able to see what works and what doesn't. This seems to the PLC concept. Knowing that lessons are a work in progress is important.

__1.3.1__"//What are characteristics of project based learning that you saw in the video?"// //Project based learning is goal specific and student centered.//


 * __1.3.3 Response to Looking at Projects:__**
 * I am thinking of ways to implement the higher level thinking into each lesson. By creating a unit that asks those higher level thinking questions.**