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Mastery-oriented goals give students the opportunity to focus on learning standards and their own growth. Administrators, counselors, and instructional coaches at Staley Middle School meet with all students toward the start, middle, and end of the year to complete goal setting and reflections.
Administrators, counselors, and instructional coaches at Staley Middle School meet with all students toward the beginning, during the middle, and near the end of the year to complete goal setting and reflections.
They look at Lexile Scores and set a goal.
They look at STAAR scores for analysis.
They pull up relevant or semester grades.
With the development of the Future Ready Student being a district focus, the school uses this New Tech Network rubric for Collaboration and has students rate themselves and choose a focus area for growth.
Discussions are had about current behaviors and what strategies can be completed to best master their goals.
Upon getting feedback from students, this second piece has been added to this process.
Upon getting feedback from students, this second piece has been added to this process.
Students take Math and Reading Inventory assessments and chart their growth at the Beginning, Middle, and End of the Year.
This corresponds to their Lexile scores on the Academic Plan sheet above, but, for relevancy, it allows students to reflect on their growth at the time of completion instead of just at the times they are reviewing with school administration, counselors, and/or instructional coaches.
They keep this form in their Google Drive in a folder called Inventory and update it as they progress through their time in middle school.
Admin Reflection
Admin Reflection
How has this impacted student learning?
I believe that goal setting impacts students by bringing awareness to their performance. A lot of times students take the reading and math lexile tests and don't think twice about it. But when they know we are monitoring their data and what the data actually means- they take the test more seriously.
How has this impacted student agency and engagement?
Agency and engagement have been impacted, because the students feel connected to an adult other than their teacher. They know someone other than their classroom teacher cares about how they are doing.
We've also seen that students who are in math and reading labs start to advocate for themselves by taking the test more seriously and trying to achieve the goal we set together- which is to get them out of reading/math support.
Would you change anything?
We have changed something. If you look at the section above, we've added in a Math and Reading Inventory Scores piece after garnering student feedback. We’re also attempting to figure out a way to make everything more digital and automated.
Do you do anything to differentiate the reflection or the goal setting?
Every student has a different goal. This is individual per student. We don't differentiate the goal setting, but we guide them a little more if needed.
Which future ready skills does this practice best bolster?
Embrace Challenges - We talk to the students about monitoring their grades in HAC and Mastery Connect. We talk about finding their own areas of weakness and getting tutoring or support for those areas. We also have them set goals for how they work with others in a group assignment by using a rubric. All of these skills help them be a better student and will support their continued growth as they transition into high school and eventually college.
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