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MITA's Five Steps™
for Higher Motivation and Achievement

1. Question possibilities. An opening question describes the lesson topics and relates content to students' interests and abilities.

2. Target improvements. Clear targets for student outcomes define each lesson to ensure deeper understanding of context, good preparation, and fewer class management problems. MITA curriculum guides faculty toward well-stated objectives that create active, student-centered learning of any topic.

3. Expect quality. Expectations provide one tool to guide evaluation of students' work. MITA lessons provide more effective rubrics for improved feedback than the current system by adding precision about specific criteria used for evaluating student work. By giving expectations at the start of their work, we pay more attention to diversity among students, to their unique worlds, and to their dreams for the future.

4. Move resources. Assessment tasks match related learning approaches, cover content, solve real world problems, create meaningful challenges, and motivate students to explore related issues. Through tapping student resources rather than rigid tests, students begin to broker their gifts and abilities to explore lesson topics at deeper levels.

5. Reflect for growth possibilities. Reflective tasks close each lesson to highlight parts that work well and to adjust weaker parts. We present reflective sessions at the MITA Center with questions about content, delivery, and students' perspectives.

MITA's Five Steps ™


Step 1: Question possibilities

Assumption: Good questions help us map our interior worlds and motivate us to explore new lands.

Step 2: Target improvements

Assumption: When we know exactly where we are headed we are more likely to arrive there successfully.

Step 3: Expect quality

Assumption: With specific signposts and pathways lighted, we are ensured to reach our destination.

Step 4: Move resources

Assumption: MITA activates student resources to ensure multiple approaches to any destination by creating choices along converging highways.

Step 5: Reflect for growth possibilities

Assumption: Reflection is a regular commitment much like inspecting an airplane for each new flight.

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