Goal Setting for Learning

Goal Setting Discussions 2020

Before the school year officially started, our school held two days of Goal Setting Discussions.  Parents and children booked in for meetings with home base teachers.  

For Te Rōpū Whakamanawa, I used a slide that I created in previous years.  

These were used for students to create goals and reflect on these.  Usually, we did these in class.

This year, I decided to use these in our goal-setting conversations.  

Prior to the students and families arriving, I went through Linc Ed and wrote what levels children were at and wrote these in each section.  

During the discussions, I went through Linc Ed and showed families how each area is set out and how they are made up of different skills through the next steps tabs.  We discussed how this works and about how we work at school in regard to gathering this information.  

We were then able to talk about what would be appropriate goals for children for the coming term and recorded these.

I found these sessions really valuable and thought that the information shared was useful for parents and students.  I was able to share some of the assessment information they can view on Linc Ed and what some of it means.  

Our next step is to work on reaching these goals throughout the term and then reflect on them in order to set SMART goals for term two.