Skip to main content

Student Goal Setting - the Promise and the Peril


Welcome back! It is a Brand New Year! Hopefully everyone is well rested, and everyone is ready to come back to classrooms ready to learn and grow!

As a district, our teachers have been supporting students in goal setting for a number of years. As I was reading during Winter Break (yes, I did lots of reading during Winter Break!) I came across an article from Education Week. It discusses the “promises and perils” of students setting goals. Perils? Of Goal Setting? Promises, of course! But, perils? As we work with students to set goals and work towards those goals, we need to remember to foster in them a growth mindset. The goal is not necessarily to get a “5.” The goal is to grow! The goal is to learn! The goal is to move forward from where they are working currently. Are your students excited about setting goals and meeting them? Are they looking forward to growing? Are you looking forward to supporting them in that growth?

Access the article through this link: The Promise and Peril of Turning Student Learning into a Number by Justin Minkel  and reflect on student goal setting in your classroom. Promise or Peril?

Welcome back!

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Writing to Learn - from Edutopia

Edutopia published a wonderful blog post: Low-Stakes Writing: Writing to Learn, Not Learning to Write This blog post gives practical ideas for incorporating writing across the day at any grade level and in any content area. The goal for writing is to get kids writing as much as possible - so much, that it is near impossible to keep up with them!  The more they write and publish to an authentic audience, the more authentic feedback they can receive. All of the ideas in the blog post align to and can be combined with our district's writing supplemental resource: The Common Core Writing Book (K-5) The Common Core Writing Book (6-8) If you do not have a copy of the book for your grade level, please contact the Teaching, Learning and Innovation Department to get a copy. Want to start implementing, but not sure where to start?  Check with your building's instructional coach!  Your instructional coach is there to assist you and provide support as you look to incoropor...
Post a Comment
Read more

Using the DOODLE BUDDY APP in Math

Some classes are creating subtraction number stories using the Doodle Buddy App! Students use the stamps in Doodle Buddy to create the picture of their story and then use the pen in the app to cross out stamps and write their number sentence. Students can then take a screen shot and put it in their google drive to share with their teacher. Take it one step further! Have students put their Doodle Buddy picture in Explain Everything, Educreations, Tell About This or Write About This so that they can record their explanation of their number story. Now teachers have evidence of the student’s thinking and can plan for the next step in moving that student along in their understanding of mathematical concepts! Works great for addition number stories, too! Model creating number stories with whole class Students work independently or collaboratively to create number stories Students take screen shot to save their work
Post a Comment
Read more