Setting Goals in the Classroom

Setting goals in the classroom is a great way to promote metacognitive thinking for students and teachers. Goals help students visualize and track their learning, emphasize growth, and help students take ownership of their learning. Goal setting is important in elementary, middle, and high school classrooms and work across all contents: English language arts, math, science, and social studies.
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3 Simple Strategies for Teaching Satire in High School ELA
"Satire" is a tough topic for the high school classroom. In my department, it's a topic reserved mostly for junior and senior English classes. With satire, there's so much to unpack in terms of tone, subject, and author's purpose. With this lesson plan, visualization strategy, and text recommendations, you will have some great ideas about how to teach satire in high school ELA. #APLit #APLiterature #Satire #TeachingSatire #ITeachELA #ELATeacher #TeachingELA #SecondaryELA #2ndaryELA #HSTeacher
3 Goal Setting Secrets for Secondary Teachers / Moore English
Goal setting matters. The act of setting goals encourages student buy in, emphasizes a growth mindset, and supports differentiation. How do teachers prevent students (like me) from being compliant but apathetic? Here’s how I make goal setting meaningful in my classroom...
Goal Setting for Middle & High School Students: Why It’s Important, Tips, and Resources - The TPT Blog
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5 Ways to Hold Students Accountable for Independent Reading
On Tuesdays and Thursdays, students start with 10ish minutes of silent reading time. Students choose independent reading books from the library. Each year, my team has a discussion about how to hold students accountable for independent reading. Over the years, I've tried lots of different methods for holding students accountable and for limiting the amount of sleeping and fake reading. Some of my favorite methods include writing to respond, literary analysis stations, and presentations!
Never Say Never: My Growth as a Teacher
Experience is the best way to gain perspective. Perspective reveals truth. In fact, perspective has a way of revealing mistakes, misunderstandings, and misconceptions. For me, some of my greatest teacher misconceptions were laid bare my first year of teaching. There were concepts, strategies, and ideas that I flatly rejected. Things I vowed never to do. Some teaching techniques I viewed as ludicrous and refused to touch. Let me be clear: this was a terrible attitude. I had no humility. I had nev
4 Reasons You Should Set Goals WITH Your Students to See Student Growth and Progress
Learn four reasons you should set goals with your students and what you should include in their data folders so they can track their own progress and learning.
How to Begin and End Classroom Discussions #mooreenglish @moore-english.com
Elevate classroom discussions and make every discussion meaningful with these four simple pre- and post-discussion strategies! These are strategies to invite students to establish discussion norms, practice generating questions, engage one another in meaningful Socratic Seminars, and thinking reflectively and metacognitively. Perfect for secondary teachers across social studies and English language arts.
Goal Setting with Students Kit - SMILE Folder - SMART GOALS System for Kids
You are going to love this Kid friendly SMART GOALS - Setting Goals with your Students Kit - SMILE Goals. This is a folder system that can be edited or printed.
5 Back-to-School Journals
As an English teacher, I have the advantage of getting to know students through their writing. Sometimes student writing can be as revealing as a conversation. Reading and responding to student writing helps build relationships and gives teachers insight into student writing skills. I prefer low-stakes writing tasks for the first few days. So today I want to share 5 of my favorite back-to-school journal prompts (and 5 alternatives if a back-to-school journal isn't your thing.)
Learning Skills and Goal Setting
Have primary students take responsibility for their own learning skills with this package and support social and emotional learning! Included: a self-evaluation, goal setting sheet, parent letter, progress tracking, teacher info and instructions, student goal sheet, student acccomplishment sheet (primary & jr versions). Ontario teachers! Learning skills comments will be a breeze when you use this method. Student growth is documented and next steps are already determined!
10 Amazon Must Haves for Your Classroom
Amazon has everything you need for back-to-school: supplies, organization, and new books for your classroom library! Grab my Amazon favorites!
Surprising Lessons from Building My First Escape Room
Toward the end of March, my juniors took the ACT, and I saw an opportunity to try my hand at creating an escape room. Overall, the process was fun for the students, took some of the stress out of their upcoming test, and taught me some great lessons about gamification. Here are the secrets I learned from creating my first escape room.
Dear Teachers, Sign Up for These 13 Newsletters / Moore English
As an English teacher, I read a lot. In the past, I've shared some of my favorite professional develop reads. However, I also do a lot of my learning online, and I subscribe to an unreal number of newsletters, some aimed at teachers and some aimed at larger audiences. Today, I want to share my top newsletter recommendations! These newsletters provide professional development, lesson plan ideas, classroom inspiration, mentor texts, resources, and articles for teachers to bring into the classroom!
132 Word of the Year Coloring Pages (Google Slides)
January is a great time to help students refocus for the New Year. In recent years, a Word of the Year has been a popular trend. Helping students choose a Word of the Year can also be a good way to help students reflect on their goals for the remainder of the school year.With these coloring pages, teachers can help students reflect on what they want in the new year. Teachers can choose from a selection of