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Set Progress Markers

Overview

When students maintain and regularly check an up-to-date record of their goal progress, they feel a sense of pride and satisfaction during the learning process.

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Example: Use This Strategy In in the Classroom

  • Allowing students to play a role in the setting and monitoring of progress markers increases their Motivation to reach these goals while also building Self-Regulation skills. Teachers can support students by encouraging them to tackle more challenging goals by together developing subgoals.

    • Design It into Your Product

  • Developers can embed a progress indicator bar to signal to learners in real-time where they are in a lesson. They can also suggest ways to break down larger, more complicated tasks but also should allow learners to adjust and customize their progress markers.

    • Use It in the Classroom

    Watch how these elementary teachers provide feedback on growth and set new progress markers with students. Through visual data trackers, these teachers and students can visibly monitor progress, which encourages students to stay Motivated to work towards a goal. Having one-on-one conversations with students regarding their progress also reminds students to focus on the process and not only the outcome.

    Design It into Your Product

    See how products, such as Toodledo, can allow learners to create tasks or lists of goals and self-monitor their progress. With functions like reminders and sharable lists, learners are able to stay more accountable to the goals they set.

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    Additional Resources

    Additional examples, research, and professional development. These resources are possible representations of this strategy, not endorsements.

    Factors Supported by this Strategy

    Student Background Information
    Social Emotional Learning
    Cognition
    Language and Literacy

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