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If you wait until the end of the semester to touch base with students about what's working in your course and what's not, it's too late to make changes to enhance the learning process. Furthermore, it's too late for you to help students understand their responsibility as learners. Worse, it's far too late to help students see how your course connects to their professional and personal goals.

 

All of these interventions and adjustments are possible if you have a sense much earlier of where students are struggling, frustrated, or off the rails.

 

This set of goal prompts gives you a jumpstart for checking in with students at the beginning of the semester, so you know what they're hoping to get from your class. And, then you can prompt them at the end of the semester to reflect on how their work in the course did in fact meet their goals. Pair this with my midterm feedback poll template for a complete set of tools you can put to use immediately. 

 

Bonus: See this article of mine for a detailed discussion of how these prompts fit into a proactive, goals-centered alternative to relying on (and resenting) students' semester evals as your only metric for teachings success.

 

P.S. This is a free download I share as an open resource to support us all as we work to be better instructors while staying sane and humane. You'll receive a link to the file after you complete your order. This will also subscribe you to my blog/newsletter/updates which happen *at most* weekly. You can unsubscribe any time, of course! 

Start- and End-of-Term Student Goal Reflection Prompts

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