Here are a few suggestions to help new teachers make realistic and
achievable goals for their students.
To show Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students that supportive programs at university, Indigenous entry schemes and financial support make studying at university a very real and
achievable goal for those students who are ready to make a big commitment to their studies;
Not exact matches
FRAC has set an ambitious, but
achievable,
goal of reaching 70 low - income
students who qualify
for free or reduced - price school breakfast
for every 100 who eat school lunch.
And rather than
students saying, «I'm going to get an A» (too vague) we turned that into something specific, «I want to write three paragraphs...» So they'd try to meet a more
achievable goal for the day.
States shouldn't back down on making these
goals ambitious, but the
goals — including
goals for all subgroups of
students — must be
achievable.
The fact that the cut score
for the merit award was set at a level that is
achievable by almost all
students makes everyone believe that it is an attainable
goal, one worth striving
for.
Classroom instruction that provides opportunities
for incremental progress feedback at
students»
achievable challenge levels pays off with increased focus, resilience, and willingness to revise and persevere toward achievement of
goals.
Undertaking a simple 11 minute daily «strengths routine» to cultivate a strength which may appear lower on the VIA report is an
achievable goal for teachers and
students.
Using a model of preparing our future teachers with these look -
fors through our partnership with the university will ensure our teachers understand the work, our priorities and are developing
goals that are
achievable and moving the needle on
student growth.
New Jersey,
for example, defines an SGO as «a long - term academic
goal that teachers set
for groups of
students and must be: Specific and measureable; Aligned to New Jersey's curriculum standards; Based on available prior
student learning data; A measure of what a
student has learned between two points in time; Ambitious and
achievable» (
for more information click here).
If this suggested rate of growth is not
achievable or realistic
for a specific
student, the teacher has the option to manually change the
goal.
Annual
goals ideally should follow Paul J. Meyer's recommendations
for creating SMART
goals, meaning that they should target a specific area (e.g., accuracy in reading, time spent staying in one's seat) and be measurable,
achievable, relevant to the
student, and time - bound.
Of course,
for this process to be most effective,
students must be familiar with how to structure and articulate
goals so they are clear, strong and
achievable.
The Hassels» op - ed, «N.C. must be bold on increasing teacher pay,» calls
for «audacious,
achievable goals»: Noting the Opportunity Culture work being done in Charlotte - Mecklenburg Schools to improve teachers» jobs and pay them more, the Hassels call on North Carolina's leaders to transform the state by extending that work and focusing on needed priority and policy changes that would create a surge in
student learning, grow the state's economy, and increase teachers» career earnings.
This plan should set meaningful, aggressive, and
achievable goals for ensuring children are prepared
for future success and explain how the state will hold schools and districts responsible
for educating all
students.
Aiding Chiefs in developing strong accountability frameworks
for their systems including ambitious but
achievable goals, effective indicators, and clearly aligned incentives focused on continuous improvement and dramatically improving outcomes
for all
students.
After all, the underlying theory behind the organization's Cut the Gap in Half approach (and the variations on the theme by Florida and other states)-- that states should aim
for «ambitious» yet «
achievable»
goals instead of pushing
for all
students to be proficient in their studies — has always been, to be kind, intellectually problematic
for any reformer worth his or her salt.
All of the sudden, those
goals were now
achievable for him, and he finally accepted the responsibility of being a
student.
Each activity is designed around achieving a «SMART»
goal (specific, measurable,
achievable, relevant, and time - bound)
for increasing
student performance.
It's a completely
achievable goal for dedicated
students.
If more employers take action on the troubles
student debt is causing
for this generation, that
goal can become
achievable, and not just another wasted New Year's resolution.
Whenever one of my
students tells me about a
goal he or she wants to achieve, I ask
for proof that the
goal is
achievable.