The Growth and Reflection stage is perhaps the longest and most intense phase of the Personal Learning Framework. Once students have established their identity, they will move into Growth and Reflection. Here they will set goals, develop action steps, collect evidence of their learning, and reflect on the strengths and challenges that characterize their learning experience.
Setting goals is a critical element of the Personal Learning Plan and serves as the bridge between the Identity phase of the Personal Learning Framework and the Growth and Reflection phase. Dynamix 802 puts a premium on the development of student learning dispositions that allow them to independently set goals, master the skills necessary to track and achieve those goals, and to develop the mindsets that will allow them to overcome adversity and challenge.
Setting Intrinsically Motivating Goals
Through our life experiences we have come to see the value and the true purpose of goal setting where our students coming into our classroom for the most part are new to this goal setting process. It is our job as the teacher to help guide our students to learned to develop meaningful intrinsically motivating goals.