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Goal 4 Students become effective goal-setters in the key competencies and curriculum learning areas (NAG1).TargetsBy the end of Term 3 all students will have an active goal-setting journal.DataTarget: Not met. As it became obvious that all students had not retained or maintained their goal-setting journal for the entire year, students wereasked:A. Did you find the goal-setting booklet helped you keep on track with your goals this year? 53% of students responded ‘yes’.B. Would you rather set your goals on-line, so you, your parents and teachers could read them and add comments? 53% of studentsresponded ‘yes’.CommentA bare majority of students maintained their goal-setting journal from beginning to end of the year. There was limited feedback from parents in thebooklets and the time-lag between achieving progress and commenting about it appeared to make reflections less meaningful. In a word, theshortcomings are about immediacy. While students need some broadly expressed ‘ big’ goals, the most meaningful one are those that they work onweek by week. The current pen and paper booklets don’t support that.RecommendationThe goal should remain, particularly because it provides an arena for Key Competencies to come to the fore and be reflected upon by students.However, the booklet format is problematical. We need to move towards a platform that will allow students to record goals and their reflections in away that is more immediate and which allows for parental and teacher comment independent of collecting up goal-setting booklets. A digitalplatform is an obvious answer.33