At Sacred Heart we have been working on setting learning
goals. Learning goals empower students in their own
learning by helping them to know explicitly what they are
learning, how they know they are progressing, what to do
if they get stuck and who to ask for help and most
importantly - where to next! Learning goals help our
teacher provide specific and explicit feedback to our
students to help them move forward in their learning.
As part of our Mathematics journey we have been
focusing on our learning goals in Mathematics in
particular. We would like to invite our Sacred Heart families to our Open Classroom week in Week 9 to
share these with you. Most classrooms will be open
on Friday the 24th of March from 8am-8:25am and
teachers will be choosing another day/time that
suits them. Please check with your child's teacher
to find out when their open classroom day is so you
can come in and see your child's learning goals.
We also encourage you to talk to your child about their
learning goals and consider setting a goal with them
yourself. It doesn't need to be focused on school work. It
could be a goal to have their bag packed in the morning or
remember to brush their teeth themselves. The goal just
needs to be specific and achievable. You need to talk to
your child about what steps they need to take to be
successful, how they will know when they have achieved
their goal or how they are going with it and what will come
next. Remember to celebrate with your student when they
progress and achieve their goal.
For example: Goal - packing their own bag 3 days out of 5
- Discuss what packing your own bag look like? What do
you need to include? Why is this important or helpful
- How will you know you've packed your bag well? It
might involve checklist or asking someone to check once
they've had a try - this coud be an older sibling or
someone else in the house.
- What do they do if they can't remember what needs to
go in?
- How will you record the number of times you've been
successful? This could be a sticker chart or a tally chart
on the fridge
- What comes next after they have achieved this goal? 5
times a week or helping a sibling pack their bag?
You can see some examples of students talking about their
learning goals here https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=4sqUGiG9pmY