Webinar Reflection

Charting Your Intervention Course: The Art and Science of Goal Setting

The goal setting is a heart of professional development of a teacher.

So, there are three types of essential progress monitoring-data:

1.     General outcome measure

2.     Skill specific data (word reading accuracy, phonics patterns, fluency, comprehension)

3.     Intervention-specific data

In order to have good results we need to select some measures based upon observed challenges. For that we need to set a GOM goal for students:

·        Obtain or use baseline date;

·        Consider team’s desired destination;

·        Set goal and determine needed weekly rate of improvement to reach the goal;

·        Use goal setting tools included with three assessments.

We also should set a skill-specific goal based on the students’ primary challenge. Then we need to set a mastery measure goal for students. In the end the teacher analyzes progress-monitoring data. It is important to consider changes needed. The teacher can also share the results with parents, list concepts mastered and provide an overall comment regarding progress.   

It is essential to plan each step in goal setting and to aim at improving learning and teaching as well.