1. Setting Goals for Adult Learners

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

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

4. Explain
How does goal-setting help with student persistence?

5. 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)

6. 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)

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

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