Description
Data becomes more powerful when students can see how their learning changes over time. Looking for practical ways to help students monitor growth, recognize achievements, and set meaningful goals? In this course, Lauren Boucher explores strategies for helping students collect, organize, and reflect on evidence of learning using assessment results, work samples, feedback, self-assessments, and other performance indicators. Participants will learn how to connect standards, learning targets, and success criteria to meaningful student reflection and goal setting while creating manageable systems that support ongoing progress monitoring.
By the end of this course, educators will walk away with practical tools and adaptable systems that help students take ownership of their learning journey. This course is ideal for classroom teachers, instructional coaches, interventionists, and school leaders looking to strengthen student agency and self-directed learning through meaningful goal setting, ongoing reflection, and student ownership of learning.
Objectives
- Identify key components of effective student progress-monitoring systems.
- Explain the relationship between learning targets, success criteria, evidence, and goal setting.
- Implement tools and routines that help students monitor and reflect on their learning.
- Examine multiple sources of evidence to identify patterns and trends in student performance.
- Assess the effectiveness of student self-monitoring and goal-setting practices.
- Develop a student-centered system for tracking progress and setting meaningful learning goals.
