Individual Goal Setting in Discussion Classes

The need to implement a universal program of education to a large number of people in the most efficient way possible means that institutions and educational structures have to focus on group objectives and group feedback.This means there may be less room for personalisation of learning objectives.In this paper I describe an activity designed to give students individual objectives in class.First, I explain the reason why I wish to implement such an activity.Next, I discuss some relevant literature on feedback, motivation and goal-setting.Following this, I explain the task itself and its implementation.I then go through numerous variations on how the activity could be implemented.After this I discuss my impressions of the benefits and drawbacks of such an activity.I finish by suggesting the classroom situations in which I believe my activity would be beneficial to other teachers.