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Item 2:
I ensure students set personal learning objectives for each lesson
Supporting Quotes
“Focusing efforts on manageable pieces that generate quick wins provides the motivation to take on ever greater challenges”(Goodwin & Hubbell, 2013)
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The purpose of setting longer-term learning goals is to help students accept that period of challenge and frustration and push through it” (Goodwin & Hubbell, 2013)
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“The essential question works to purposefully direct student learning, highlights learners’ capacity to act as novice experts and contribute to ongoing disciplinary conversations, and focuses the course of student research…” Wilhelm, J. D. (2014). learning to love the questions. Knowledge Quest, 42(5), 36–41.
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“In addition to academic performance improvements, students who set personal goals also reported significantly greater reduced negative affect compared to controls and attributed these reductions to the goal-setting process.” (Martin et al., 2015)
Resources
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​Edutopia is an online resource that provides articles and videos that support positive classroom teaching: https://www.edutopia.org/. Their Youtube channel in particular has several videos on fostering students' intentional and personal goals: https://www.youtube.com/@edutopia
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This Daily Intentions video demonstrates an effective and simple way to apply this touchstone in a traditional classroom: https://youtu.be/NqAZtNZ_7pI
Application
Item 1 focused on making sure there are specific standards for lessons, and in this item we are making sure they are personal. Ethan has the option to choose which objective we focus on out of a list of possibilities, and he set his own learning goal at the beginning of the program (his goal score is a 1450 so he can go into a particular engineering program.