Setting Goals for Adult Learners

Student Goals Why do goal-setting? What’s in it for the student? How does it affect the classroom?

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

Explain How does goal-setting help with student persistence?

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)

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)

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

Embedded in the context of instruction Learner Goals must be Clear and Specific Continual Achievable Embedded in the context of instruction