This course tackles a familiar challenge: helping students take ownership of their learning and actively commit to learning—right from the start.
In this interactive course, you’ll learn why student goal setting works and explore strategies you can use immediately in your classroom. Grounded in neuroscience and learning science, the strategies in this course are based on insights from research about how to motivate and support all learners—including reluctant ones. You’ll also learn some simple ways to observe and measure the impact this strategy has on your students.
Throughout the course, you'll apply what you learn directly to your own lessons and units, then take your learning a step further by implementing your strategies, measuring their impact, and receiving expert feedback on your work.
In this course, you will:
- Explore the brain science behind goal setting and how it influences commitment to learning.
- Understand how to design effective goal-setting and progress-monitoring routines.
- Learn simple, ready-to-use classroom strategies.
- Learn how to measure the impact of goal setting on student motivation and effort.
- Submit a classroom artifact demonstrating your use of cognitive interest cues
- Receive expert feedback to strengthen and refine your practice
Upon successful submission and approval of your classroom artifact, you’ll earn a shareable digital badge that recognizes your demonstrated application of student goal setting and monitoring. The badge can be added to your professional portfolio, résumé, email signature, or social media profiles to showcase your learning and implementation.
By the end of the course, you'll not only have designed and implemented goal setting and monitoring in your classroom, but you'll also receive personalized feedback and a credential that validates your learning.