TPA Goal-Setting - a brainstorm on how one sets a student progress goal

1. Roam the Known

This years class / students:

o What do I know about them, and their past performance?
o What questions do I have?

Last years class / students:

o What do I know about them, and their past performance?
o What questions do I have?

Content knowledge / skills:

o What are the important content knowledge / skills in my content area?

My past practices:
o What have I done in the past which has really worked?
o What have I done in the past which has not worked?

Current research:
o What strategies intrigue me that have been developed?
o How do they relate to the learning I intend to cause?

2. Write a goal: Based on what I have seen as I roamed the known, Ill develop 5Ws and an
H that will help to shape my goal.
Student outcomes
Who?

On which students will I/we focus?

Teacher implementation
Whose goal is this - mine? my teams? my
school?

What knowledge or skills will I/we focus on

growing in these kids?

What?

What will I use to measure student

mastery of this knowledge / skill?
What outcome data do I have available to
me?

When?

Whats my/our timeline for student growth?

Whats my/our timeline for implementation?

Where
?

Why?

In what context will we be working?

In what context will we be working?

Why these students? What gap evidence

points me in this direction?

Why this change in practice? How important is it

to overall student learning? What gap evidence
points me in this direction?

Why this content / skill? How important is it

to overall student learning? What gap
evidence points me in this direction?

How will I change my practice to cause this

student learning?

How?

How will I hold myself accountable to this

change in practice?
Here is a sample goal statement template:
Goal: (1st Box on B-2 Form)
In order for students to __________________________(LLL Standard/ACPS Goal),
________________________ will demonstrate progress in __________________________.
(Who? e.g. Which students?)
(What skill / understanding?)
I will know the degree to which these students have mastered this through __________________(What
measures?), collected ____________.(When?)
Strategies:
In order to accomplish this goal, I will ___________________________________.
(How will my teaching practice change? What strategies will I try? Who will you collaborate with? PLC
partners?)
Students will track progress of their goal by ___________________________________________.

Rationale - Why this goal? (2nd Box on B-2 Form)

Why these students? Why this content?

How will this goal improve my professional practice? How will this goal stretch me?

How does this goal fit into the larger organizational goals?

Is there current research / data / trends that point me in my direction?