Create student-friendly learning targets

In this cooperative activity we (Goretti and Mónica) have selected two learning targets from the law and follow the process described in the image below to rephrase them in order to be “student-friendly”. Then we will share the impact we noticed of using the student-friendly definition with our students.

Learning targets from the curriculum

Standards for Primary education in the area of Music. (From “REAL DECRETO 1513/2006, de 7 de diciembre, por el que se establecen las enseñanzas mínimas de la educación Primaria”)	Standards for Secondary education in the area of Social Sciences (from “REAL DECRETO 1631/2006, de 29 de diciembre, por el que se establecen las enseñanzas mínimas correspondientes a la Educación Secundaria Obligatoria
“To investigate the possibilities of the sound and the movement as elements of communication and to use them to express ideas and feelings.”	“Understand the basic technical elements that characterize the art forms in their social and cultural reality to value and respect the natural, historical, cultural and artistic heritage, taking responsibility involved in their conservation and appreciating it as a resource for individual and collective enrichment.”

How could they be rephrased using Student Friendly Language?

Music: We are learning to use the notes of the scale and the rhythms to create melodies that express different feelings such as happiness, annoyance, joyfulness… as we do with words. We can also create choreographies based on the character of the music adapting our movements to the rhythms and the dynamics.

Social Sciences: We are learning the main features of Romanesque and Gothic art (architecture, sculpture and painting). Then we can reproduce stained-glass windows, churches, cathedrals and gargoyles and explain their main characteristics.

The impact of using the student-friendly definition with our students: 

The standards given by the official curriculum are way too difficult to understand. When we converted them into student-friendly language, our students had a much clearer idea of what they were learning. We think it was even better when we showed them some real examples: concerning Music, samples of how melodies and choreographies can express different feelings and as regards Social Sciences,  several pictures of both Romanesque and Gothic buildings, sculptures and paintings