Long-Term learning targets have become an area of emphasis for many of our TfT schools. They are an effective tool to connect the big ideas of the curriculum to your Deep Hope or your classroom Storyline, ensuring that each unit is explicitly rooted within God’s story. From there, these Long-Term learning targets play an important practical role in directing the learning experiences, often serving as guideposts on your storyboards.

Partnering with Joe Hox, illustrator and former art teacher at Pella Christian Schools, we have developed this resource that provides a visual guide for constructing Long-Term learning targets. Coupled with the rubric, these two resources will empower you to construct effective targets that will root the learning in God’s Story.

Our elementary example is Conner Luymes’s 7th grade Language Arts class at Allendale Christian. This FLEx card shares the story of the students identifying and celebrating local heroes as they lived into the Deep Hope that they would be able to recognize God’s love through heroism in our communities, and that, in sharing it, you can inspire heroism in others too. 

The secondary example comes from Chad Meekhof’s Bike Tech class at Rehoboth Christian. Students within the course engage “real work, real needs, real people” as the students contribute to the local biking community through professional bike service and maintenance.