Setting Learning Goals
Set a specific learning goal, work towards it with a deliberate plan, then honestly assess whether you achieved it and what you would change
How to tell they’ve got it
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Does your child ever set themselves a specific learning goal — like 'I want to get better at times tables by the end of the week' — and then honestly judge whether they met it?
Where this sits on the map
Stuck here? Check the skills it builds on first. Confident? Here’s what it unlocks.
Builds on
Planning a Taskages 6–7The plan-do-review cycle is the mature form of the basic planning habit established at age 6-7
Finding Knowledge Gapsages 10–11The plan-do-review cycle requires metacognitive monitoring — you cannot honestly review without being able to survey your own understanding
Setting Learning Goalsthis skill · ages 10–11
Unlocks
Personal Goal-Settingages 9–11PSD goal-setting scaffolds the learning goal practices taught in Learning-to-Learn
solid = must come firstdashed = helps
Curriculum alignment
Candidate matches to official curriculum codes — machine-suggested, unreviewed (v0.1).
This skill aligns to ACARA’s General Capabilities rather than a learning-area code.