Goal Setting and Self-Monitoring for Students With Disabilities: Practical Tips and Ideas for Teachers

This article provides teachers with practical tips and ideas about how self-monitoring works in conjunction with goal-setting strategies to support students to set and achieve different types of academic goals. In addition, specific examples of academic goals and self-monitoring forms are provided t...

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Published in:Intervention in school and clinic 2009-01, Vol.44 (3), p.139-145
Main Authors: Lee, Suk-Hyang, Palmer, Susan B., Wehmeyer, Michael L.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Disabled students
Educational Strategies
Goal Orientation
Goal setting
High School Students
Learning Strategies
Motivation
Objectives
Reading Comprehension
Self Evaluation (Individuals)
Selfmonitoring
Student Educational Objectives
Students with disabilities
Teacher Student Relationship
Teachers
Teaching methods
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Summary:This article provides teachers with practical tips and ideas about how self-monitoring works in conjunction with goal-setting strategies to support students to set and achieve different types of academic goals. In addition, specific examples of academic goals and self-monitoring forms are provided to give teachers an example of such goals. To provide teachers with practitioner-oriented information about how to use these strategies, practical tips and ideas are addressed in the following sequence: (a) how to support students to set school-related goals, (b) how to support students to develop action plans for student-set target goals, (c) how to create a self-monitoring sheet that matches the self-set goals, and (d) how to evaluate the targeted goal.
ISSN:1053-4512
1538-4810
DOI:10.1177/1053451208326053