December Postcard - Aim High with Goals! – ST Math Help

Goal setting is an important skill for students to develop. It is important that students learn how to identify:

Appropriate goals
Action steps to achieve the goals
Strategies for monitoring progress toward the goals
Ways to adjust the goals based on data

Use one of the many data trackers to encourage students to set goals and monitor their progress.

Effective Teaching Practice & ST Math: Establish mathematics goals to focus learning.

Effective teaching of mathematics establishes clear goals for the mathematics that students are learning, situates goals within learning progressions, and uses the goals to guide instructional decisions,.

By setting goals for your ST Math implementation with students, they have more focus while playing games which leads to a stronger connection to your classroom instruction.

Sincerely,

JiJi and the ST Math Team

Let others know when your students have reached their goals!

JiJi is visiting Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, USA

In December, 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright made the first successful airplane flights in the sand dunes near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. They chose Kitty Hawk because of its steady winds, high sand dunes where they could start their flight, lack of buildings and trees, and isolation so they could experiment without people watching. The two brothers experimented for almost 3 years, measuring and testing different wing designs and ways to steer, until they were ready to fly. Before their successful flight, they had to deal with broken propellers, engine troubles, and crashes into the sand. They kept at it until Orville flew the first heavier-than-air machine flown by a human 120 feet in 12 seconds. The brothers took turns flying the machine three more times that day, getting better and better until their last flight of the day: 852 feet in 59 seconds.