What is a Pedagogical Roadmap?
A PedRo makes visible the route students travel towards the main goal: which prior knowledge is needed, which new material is built up and how everything builds on what came before. That way you can see at a glance where formative action is needed most.
Design in 4 steps
- Main goal: what should a student be able to do independently at the end? Use an active, observable verb (explain, analyse, calculate…), not "know" or "understand". Tip: look at 📚 Curriculum goals for inspiration.
- Intermediate goals: which in-between steps are needed, and in which logical order?
- New material: which knowledge building blocks belong to each intermediate goal? One piece of content per block.
- Prior knowledge: what should students already have mastered before they can start?
How to use the designer
- Click + block at the bottom of a column and type your text.
- Click → on a block and then on another block to draw an arrow ("builds on"). Arrows always run from left to right and can only go within a column or to the column directly next to it. Click an arrow to remove it again.
- Use ⚡ to mark where you expect a misconception or stumbling block: that is where targeted checking is needed.
- Drag blocks to change the order.
The three strategies of formative action
Mark on each block which strategy you want to use there:
- Short loop of Formative Action: purposefully gathering information about students' thinking (checking prior knowledge, spotting misconceptions), so you can act in a targeted way.
- Developing a (shared) Sense for Quality: helping students clearly understand what quality is, with examples, thinking aloud while modelling and dialogue about the criteria.
- Organising Feedback Processes: getting students to think about the quality of their work and supporting them in improving it independently towards intermediate or main goals.
Writing strong objectives
A core objective (national) is the starting point; your main goal makes it concrete for a teaching period, and a lesson objective for a single lesson. A strong objective has:
- an active, observable verb (explain, calculate, design, not "know" or "understand");
- a standard: when is it good enough?
- a condition: with or without aids, independently or with help?
Saving
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