Setting Goals for Adult Learners

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Setting Goals for Adult Learners
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Student Goals

• Why do goal-setting?
• Whats in it for the student?
• How does it affect the classroom?

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Because

• Goal setting helps students persist in classes
  and motivates learning.

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Explain

• How does goal-setting help with student
  persistence?

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Persistence

• Connecting learners' goals and class instruction
  helps teachers meet students' needs and allows
  students to experience success in meeting their
  goals, which contributes to their increased
  motivation and persistence.
• (Graves, 2004)

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Persistence

• With instruction on short-term and long-term
  goals, students are better able to mesh personal,
  educational, and career goals and better able to
  articulate their needs to the instructor.
• (Jackson, 1999)

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Goal Setting

• What does the research say about HOW to implement
  goal-setting?

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Learner Goals must be

• Clear and Specific
• Continual
• Achievable
• Embedded in the context of instruction