Goal Time: Self-Determined Learning for Middle and High Schools is an evidence-based practice that can be used by trained facilitators to enhance their supports for students as they grow in their self-determination skills and abilities. Goal Time is designed to guide trained implementers as they support students to self-select goals and develop skills associated with self-determination (e.g., problem solving, decision making, self-evaluating, self-advocating).
As students use Goal Time, they grow in their motivation and shape their own future. They learn about themselves and how to self-direct actions to go after goals. Goal Time is a cyclical process that can be used repeatedly to support students as they identify new and different goals.
Goal Time has been shown to enhance students’ academic achievement, social-emotional development, employment, community engagement, and quality of life outcomes.