SET GOALS

Why write and post content & language goals when you already know the standard and what you want students to do? These are important and valid questions, especially when time to plan and prep lessons is in short supply. The evidence is clear, though... the effect size on learning is significant when students know the goals and can clearly articulate what they are learning and what success looks like (Hattie, 2018).  The process of learning should not be a mystery (Berger, 2019). The content goal specifies what standards the student is working towards mastering. The language goal describes how students will demonstrate the learning. Whether you call them targets, goals or objectives does not matter; what matters is that the learning is clearly defined, standards based, and actively discussed.