This interactive PowerPoint is a versatile resource designed to promote target-setting, metacognition, and self-regulated learning through engaging activities. Featuring an integrated menu with thirty activity slides, each containing multiple tasks, the resource encourages students to set and reflect on goals related to work quality, learning power, study skills, and long-term strategies. Ideal for lessons or structured sessions, it helps students develop metacognitive skills by fostering planning, monitoring, and evaluating their learning processes. Available as an editable file or automated PowerPoint Show, this tool can be reused multiple times with the same groups, offering flexibility and sustained impact.
This resource is ideal for quick target-setting activities in lessons or for structuring multiple target-setting sessions. The PowerPoint can be used multiple times with the same groups and encourages students to reflect on targets relating to: work quality, learning power, attitude to learning, subject knowledge, study-skills and long-term strategy.
The download includes both an editable file and an automated PowerPoint Show (recommended). The PowerPoint uses an integrated interactive menu that allows you to choose between thirty different activity slides (each with 3-4 activities).
Target-Setting, Metacognition, and Self-Regulated Learning
Target-setting is an important aspect of education that can foster metacognition and self-regulated learning. It is a process that involves setting goals for students and providing them with feedback on their progress towards achieving those goals. This process can help students develop a sense of ownership over their learning and can encourage them to take responsibility for their own progress.
By setting targets, students can develop a better understanding of what they need to do to achieve their goals and can monitor their own progress towards achieving them. This can help them develop metacognitive skills such as planning, monitoring, and evaluating their own learning.
For encouraging reflective learning and building self-regulated learners this teaching resource is essential because it:
- Encourages students to set and reflect on meaningful learning targets, fostering metacognitive awareness.
- Promotes self-regulated learning by guiding students through the planning, monitoring, and evaluation stages of goal achievement.
- Supports a variety of educational goals, including improving work quality, subject knowledge, and long-term learning strategies.
- Offers an interactive and reusable format, making it adaptable for individual lessons or structured sessions.
- Provides flexibility with editable and automated versions, allowing teachers to tailor the resource to their specific classroom needs.
Target Setting PowerPoint
Focus: target-setting, self-regulated learning, DIRT, reflection time, reflective learning, independent learning, goals
Main Aim: to facilitate target-setting in lessons and encourage self-regulated learning
Designed for teachers of students aged 8-16License Terms:
Whole-School LicenseSystem Requirements:
Microsoft Office
WinZip (we recommend: 7-Zip or WinRar)
Windows 7+, 1.5GHZ, 1GB RAM
File Formats: PowerPoint Presentations (& .zip)Copyrighted by The Global Metacognition Institute (2023)
Strictly not for re-distribution outside of your own school.