GEL (Goals, Evidence and the Learning Experience)

GEL

In School District 27J, we often focus on GEL (Goals, Evidence and Learning Experience) when planning classroom instruction or professional development.  GEL is a simplification of Wiggins & McTighe's Backwards Design Process.  Below is the plan for the innovation project.

GOALS:

1) Provide enrichment services now.

2) Identify gifted and talented students.

EVIDENCE:

1) Data will be collected from each of the TED-Ed lessons the student completes. 

2) Each student in the talent pool will take an assessment at the completion of the project for possible official identification.  

LEARNING EXPERIENCE:  

The identified talent pool will work independently on one TED-Ed Lesson per week.  Each online lesson will be accompanied by a hands-on component.  All of the experiences will promote creative and outside-the-box thinking to enrich current learning and prepare students for a later assessment.

Learn more about the Wiggins' and McTighe's Backward Design Process in this TED-Ed Professional Development Lesson.