Goal Setting, Monitoring, and Feedbacking Practices of Elementary School Teachers: Basis For Teachers’ Training Plan

This study focused on the elementary school teachers’ goal setting, monitoring, and feedback practices in some identified schools. Respondents of the study were chosen using stratified random sampling with 117 teacher respondents. Validated and reliable questionnaires were used to gather the needed data for this study. Analysis of the responses demonstrated that the greater the instructors’ focus on goal-setting activities, the better the monitoring practices performance commitment of teachers. The results indicate that improving teaching methods can increase instructors’ commitment to monitoring practices, learning environment, planning and evaluation for learner variety, and personal and professional development. The results of the analysis further revealed that the larger the instructors’ concentration on goal-setting activities, the better the monitoring practices and performance commitment of teachers. The findings suggest that enhancing teaching methods can boost instructors’ commitment to monitoring practices, creating a positive learning environment, planning, and evaluating for learner variation, and personal and professional development. Based on the results, this paper recommended the teachers training plan which is the output of this study.