Goal Setting: Weekly Student Conferencing and the Effect on Work Completion in a Montessori Classroom

conferencing;work completion;goal setting;Montessori

Peterson, CourtneyPapadimitriou, Melina ;

University of Wisconsin

关键词: conferencing;    work completion;    goal setting;    Montessori;   

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瑞士|英语

来源: University of Wisconsin

【 摘 要 】

As educators, teaching students to set attainable goals and to be responsible forthe completion of these goals is a life skill that we need in our education systemto help our children become successful leaders in the future. This research studywas developed to teach students in an E1 Montessori classroom (first throughthird grade) in a suburban school how to set attainable goals, to identify if weeklyindividual conferencing between student and teacher is helpful for students toreach these goals, and, to increase work completion throughout the classroom.The participants of this study met weekly to set attainable goals, to reflect onpreviously set goals, and to record work completion. Results indicated that themajority of students completed more works during the student conferencing andgoal setting.