Goals

After an entire quarter, I finally managed to get my Big Goals up on the wall with tracking charts and everything.

As a Teach For America teacher, these Big Goals are a big deal. What is a big goal you might ask? These are the goals I want my class to be meeting in order to show me that they have mastered the state standards I have been teaching. 80% on each standard is the typical ambitious goal that TFA recommends.

Our Goals:
1. We will score an average of 80% on all of our reading assessments.
2. We will score an average of 80% on all of our math assessments.
3. We will read 118 words per minute.

Individually, we set different goals for different students depending on where they are academically. The 80% average as a class allows everyone to work to help raise the class average even if they are not reaching the 80% individually. This is very important in a class that has some students on the 4th grade level and others on the pre-K level.