Student Goal-Setting
Foundation Strategy
The Student Goal-Setting strategy engages students to establish their own clear, specific, mastery focused learning goals. Student Goal-Setting supports short- and long-term learning goals.
When using Student Goal-Setting, the teacher will model and guide students in establishing specific and appropriate goals based on the AKS, as well as offer multiple opportunities for students to monitor, assess, and reflect on their progress towards meeting their learning goals. Students will create and articulate specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and time-bound goals to reach an identified learning outcome focused on mastery of the AKS. Students will embrace a growth mindset in pursuit of mastery goals. They will actively monitor and reflect on their individual progress analyzing their own work to identify misconceptions and errors to progress in their learning goals.
Student Goal-Setting is not just identifying a daily learning target. It allows for students to become owners in their daily learning of the AKS. It is most effective when students are actively engaged in setting and monitoring their progress towards mastery of the AKS.
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Model Lessons
Two Step Add and Subtract: X Marks the Spot
Students are asked to reflect on where they are in understanding the learning targets for the lesson/unit. The students will provide evidence for their claim and what they will do for next steps in learning.
Shifting Sounds - Doppler Effect
Students will identify vocabulary from a text and develop visuals that represent the meaning of the terms which will be used by collaborative groups to review and help them form a definition. Students will complete a PEOE protocol and self-evaluation of their learning.
Comparing Functions: X Marks the Spot
Students are presented several graphs of transformations and asked questions. Students then rate their level of understanding on how to answer the questions and include evidence they have to support their self-evaluation.
Students will conduct a self-assessment of their understanding of heredity. Following, students will work collaboratively to organize sentence strips about heredity to make the best paragraph describing the role of DNA and genes in how traits are passed on.
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