Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Setting SMART goals

Helping my students set goals the smart way

We have been talking in class about setting goals for reading, writing and mathematics. There are lots of other things we could set goals for. These are just three.

This powerpoint can be helpful for you to write smart goals. Have you worked out what SMART stands for? Watch the power point and maybe you will find out.

Some sentence starters are good to use too.

My goal in reading is ......
By the end of term two I want to....


The next thing to think about is "How will I achieve this goal" This means thinking about what are some things you need to work on related to the goal. These are called Next Steps.

You will see me....
I will use...
I will use my reading comprehension strategies to....
I am learning to...
It is important that I....

I have read through all of your initial goal setting and I think with some more tweaking you can make your goals

  • Specific
  • Measureable
  • Achievable
  • Realistic
  • Time based
Good Luck!

Here is an example of a Reading Goal and its Next Steps

Reading Goal
By the end of term two I will be able to stop at words that I don't understand or cannot say and think about them.

Next Step
You will see me sound out the hard words and  read the words around the difficult word in the sentence to gain meaning. Then read the whole sentence again.




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