1st Grade Instructional Guide

Setting Goals for Personal Growth Goal setting for academic and personal growth areas can enhance self confidence and resilience, create self-awareness, and foster a sense of accomplishment. Students learn the importance of both establishing goals and monitoring progress toward those goals.

Developmental Learning Targets Grades KDG - 2

Developmental Learning Targets Grades 3 - 5

Developmental Learning Targets Grades 6-8

Students will be able to independently use organizational skills and strategies to focus attention in working toward short term personal and academic goals.

Students will be able to, with adult guidance, use organizational skills and strategies to focus attention in working toward personal and academic goals.

Students will begin to, with adult guidance, focus their attention by demonstrating a variety of strategies to tolerate distractions.

Students will identify their likes and dislikes, needs and wants, strengths, and challenges.

Students will describe personal skills and interests that they want to develop.

Students will analyze how personal qualities influence choices and successes.

Students will be able to assess their level of engagement in their own learning, set realistic goals, and persist until their goals are achieved.

Students will be able to set short term personal and academic goals and make a plan for achieving them.

Students will describe steps in setting goals and working toward goal achievement.

Students will identify goals for academic success and acceptable classroom behavior. Students will be able to identify and describe skills and activities they do well and those for which they need help.

Students will monitor their progress in achieving a short-term personal goal.

Students will analyze the reasons why a goal was or was not met.

Students will be able to use a “growth mindset” to recognize and build on their strengths.

Students will be able to self reflect on their own values and how their behaviors relate to those values.