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We Are Teachers: How to Do Goal Setting With Your Students This School Year ArticleWe Are Teachers: How to Do Goal Setting With Your Students This School Year Article
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We Are Teachers: How to Do Goal Setting With Your Students This School Year

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There's no shortage of teachers doing innovative work around goal setting for students. This article is a compilation of favorite resources. Included are books to read to your class, a goal planning worksheet, classroom activities, visual tracking systems, and apps.

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goal setting

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1.2.1 organize ideas to carry out multi-step plans to obtain a goal or solve a problem., b2.1.b identify goals for academic success and personal growth, b2.2.b identify school, family and community resources, with adult support, that may assist in achieving a goal, b3.3.b plan steps needed to reach a short-term goal, goal setting activities

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