Classroom Instruction part of the Education Reform Network

Best Practices in Goal Setting

• Decision-Making/Goal-Setting Skills
  Helping students develop a process for making decisions or achieving a goal.
• Goal Setting for Students
  Laubauch Literacy describes a goal setting process for students that helps students set realistic goals and to develop and action plan for achieving them.
• Goal Setting: A Basic Skill for Life
  MarthaElin Mountain shares her findings of a research study that explored the dynamics involved in the personal achievement of students, and the implications of those findings on teacher-student interactions, curriculum design, routine instructions, and classroom procedures.
• The Goal Getters--Enhancing Goal Setting
  Goal setting encourages the development of intrinsic motivation. It affects personal development by making the learner more independent, develops greater tolerance for taking risks, builds pride and self-confidence, and increases depth of knowledge and experience with a topic of interest.
• Working Toward Student Self-Direction and Personal Efficacy as Educational Goals
  In this Critical Issues paper published by the North Centrral Regional Educational Laboratory, Barbara M'Gonigle. teacher at Dumont High School in Dumont, New Jersey describes how she uses thinking journals in her class to help students set their own goals.