SMARTe Goals Todays Goals Understand the purpose of

SMARTe Goals

Today’s Goals ✓ Understand the purpose of SMARTe Goals ✓ Identify the key components of SMARTe Goals ✓ Write your own SMARTe Goals 2

Why SMARTe Goals? How do you know that your students are learning? How do goals help drive student learning? 3

What are SMARTe Goals? Teachers set SMARTe Goals to deliberately focus on student achievement, and to move their practice forward. There are 2 SMARTe Goals: 1. Student Outcome Goal 2. Professional Practice Goal 4

Why are SMARTe Goals part of TGDS? TGDS is focused on growth and development • Goal-setting and progress-monitoring are important professional teaching practices • Student outcomes are important measures of effectiveness • We are laying groundwork for core assessment practices in the district • 5

What Makes a Good Goal? Sample Student Outcome Frame By________(date)________ (percent of students) will grow_______(amount of growth) on ________(assessment. ) ________ (subgroup) will grow______ (amount of growth) on _________ (assessment. ) Sample Student 2015 -16 Outcome Goal By May 1 st, 100% of students will make one year of growth on the on-demand writing assessments from the Writing Units of Study, including the effective use of academic vocabulary and language structures. 100% of ELLs will make 1. 5 years work of growth on the same assessment. 6

What Makes a Good Goal? Sample Professional Frame Practice I will improve in_________ (language of indicator) by___________ (names of specific classroom teaching practices/teacher observable actions. ) By______ (date)__________(amount) of students will ___________(observable student behaviors. ) Sample Professional 2015 -16 Practice Goal I will improve my modeling and use of academic language (3 C. 1) using components of Balanced Approach to Literacy including interactive read-aloud, small group instruction, and conferring. By May 1, 2015, 100% of all students, including ELLs, will regularly use teacher-identified, strategic tier 2 and tier 3 academic vocabulary and language structures for each unit without scaffolds in speaking and writing. 7

Writing Goals Use any available data and the SMARTe Goal Planning Template to develop your own goals. 8

Debrief • • What was easy about this process? What was challenging? 9

Uploading to Teach. Boost Step 1 Click “New Goal” Type in the Student Outcome Goal Do NOT attach competencies 10

Uploading to Teach. Boost Step 2 Click “Save and Add Another” Type in the Professional Practice Goal Attach to the correct “competency” (OETF indicator) Click “Save Goal” 11

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