Module: Building Resilient Learners
Unit: Engaging students in working purposefully to achieve goals
We all find it easier to put in effort and keep going when we see the point of doing it, when we have a goal that is of interest to us. Without a goal that we buy in to, why should we bother?
The world of the classroom is most often about externally set goals or targets or success criteria or objectives. Whatever the word the way in which they are viewed is as something that is given, required by someone or something else. They are not our goals or standards and if we are unable to adopt these as our own, we will forever be dancing to someone else’s tune, pursuing an agenda in which we have little interest.
This unit explores how we can help students to understand different types of goals and support them in working purposefully towards them. The hope is that coming to own and self regulate their goals in a classroom setting will move ultimately to them developing and pursuing their own life plans.
This Unit aims to:
- help teachers to analyse how their students’ think and feel about pursuing goals.(Quiz 1)
- look at their own practice in developing a learning friendly culture. (Quiz 2)
- suggest practical strategies to increase students’ skill and confidence in pursuing goals. ( Sections 2 and 3)
- assist teachers to use a learning enquiry method to help shift their practice. (Section 4)
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