Student-Centered Goal Setting

in the Gifted Classroom

David Warrenfeltz - @davwarren3
Erica Hartley - @ericadhartley

Access this presentation at

http://tinyurl.com/goalsetting901
 How will your students be able to tell you
attended PD?
❖ Learn about using data and formative assessment for
teacher guided and student-driven goal setting.

❖ Explore processes for implementing personal goal setting

❖ Acquire tools and resources for student-driven goal

setting
Starfish Story
NAGC Standards Alignment
P3.4 Instructional Strategies- Students with gifts and talents become independent
investigators.

S2.4. Learning Progress and Outcomes- Students with gifts and talents
demonstrate advanced and complex learning as a result of using multiple,
appropriate, and ongoing assessments.

F3.1. Curriculum Planning- Students with gifts and talents demonstrate growth
commensurate with aptitude during the school year.
2016-2017 School Year Data
● PARCC
○ 4th Math-93% of students scored a 4 or 5
○ 4th Reading- 100% of students scored a 4 or 5
○ 5th Math- 84.2% of students scored a 4 or 5
○ 5th Reading- 100% of students scored a 4 or 5

● MAPS
○ 4th Math- 100% of students met growth
○ 4th Reading - 80% of students met growth
○ 5th Math- 84.2% of students met growth
○ 5th Reading- 89.4% of students met growth
15%-50%
The amount of gifted students who are
underachieving.
 Involve the kids!!
~ It leads to growth in self-efficacy~
 Future Personal Success

Setting goals to help guide themselves through difficult learning and setbacks is
essential to ultimate individual success.
UBD/Planning
 Goal Setting- Compacting vs. Acceleration
Compacting Accelerating
Condensing Curriculum or moving more Moving on to more advanced content
rapidly through grade level content
May be useful in the earlier portions of May be useful in later portions of units
units when students still need to delve when students have already
deeper into grade level content and demonstrated mastery of grade level
demonstrate transfer content AND ability to transfer those skills

BOTH REQUIRE PRE-ASSESSMENT, KNOWLEDGE OF STANDARDS,

AND MAKING INTRADISCIPLINARY CONNECTIONS
Know the
standards!
Unpacking standards
Theme Spark
Student-Centered Goal
Setting
ELA Examples
Learning progressions

★ Goal setting only works

when next steps are clear
and measurable

★ Knowing what comes

before and after is
essential
Rubrics

★ Another way to set clear, specific,

measurable goals

★ Makes small group instruction

simple
 Fluency Goals
Monday Friday

Throughout the week, student

practices passage 5 minutes each
day.

First- Second- Third- First- Second- Third-

student student student sets student student student
reads a records on a goal reads a records on reflects on
passage chart passage chart progress
while peer while peer
times them times them

Fluency Tracking Chart

Discussions

★ Students can set goals based on specific discussion

behaviors, regardless of content

★ Have students work with a partner to monitor and

provide feedback
PARCC
★ Goals in a specific area
Student-Centered Goal
Setting
In Math
 Math Pre-Assessment Considerations
● Have next grade’s standards pre-assessed (vertical learning
progressions) (acceleration)

● Have more content than you would normally plan to teach at the
start of the unit on the pre-assessment (compacting)

● Grade 4 Number and Operations Pre-Assessment

 Students Identifying Goals
● After the pre-assessment
○ Chunk the pre-assessment?
 Tracking Goals
● Flexible Groupings
○ “We are doing ____ (goal) at ____ (time)
○ STUDENTS->KNOW YOUR GOALS!!!

● Quizzes/Exit Tickets
○ Mark off goals as the unit moves along
 Tracking Goals
● + model for tracking by students

● Conference checklist
 Partner Teaching Protocol
● Identify a goal to work on (write on post-it note)
● Mark 3 post-its of people you can help
● Pair up based on initialed post-its
● 20 min per person to work (one turn as expert, one as learner)
○ Ideas- IXL, Khan Academy practice, practice on white board
(CHECK on calculator)
○ Focus on their goal
○ Reflection- How do you/they know they improved?
 Differentiated Discussions
● Moving from acquisition to making meaning and transfer

● Variations of differentiated discussions

○ Solve #1 before you solve #2
○ Teacher assigns your problem
○ Ss choose your problem (based on goals or work)
 Tech Tools to Support Goal Setting
● Khan Academy

● Khan Academy- MAPs

● Grade Level Equivalency Chart (if your county doesn’t use MAPS)
 Tech Tools to Support Goal Setting
● GoFormative

● IXL
End of Unit Reflection
Reflection: How will your students be
able to tell that you attended PD
today?

David Warrenfeltz Erica Hartley

warrejda@wcps.k12.md hartleri@wcps.k12.md
.us .us
@davwarren3
@ericadhartley
Presentation link: tinyurl.com/goalsetting901