The Student Goal-Setting strategy engages students to establish their own clear, specific, mastery focused learning goals. Student Goal-Setting supports short- and long-term learning goals.

When using Student Goal-Setting, the teacher will model and guide students in establishing specific and appropriate goals based on the AKS, as well as offer multiple opportunities for students to monitor, assess, and reflect on their progress towards meeting their learning goals. Students will create and articulate specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and time-bound goals to reach an identified learning outcome focused on mastery of the AKS. Students will embrace a growth mindset in pursuit of mastery goals. They will actively monitor and reflect on their individual progress analyzing their own work to identify misconceptions and errors to progress in their learning goals.

Student Goal-Setting is not just identifying a daily learning target. It allows for students to become owners in their daily learning of the AKS. It is most effective when students are actively engaged in setting and monitoring their progress towards mastery of the AKS.