Student Learning Objectives (SLO)

The West Virginia Department of Education created this guide to help teachers to determine if their goals are specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and time bound. This resource provides guiding questions to determine if the goal is SMART.

The Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction created this checklist to help teachers determine if the student growth goal meets requirements. This tool provides guiding questions to determine if the goal meets the criteria of an effective growth goal and if it is a SMART goal.

The Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction created a document of example student growth goals. There are elementary examples for English language arts, math, music, and health and fitness. The middle school examples include English language arts, theater, health and fitness, and career and technical education, and the high school examples include career and technical education, world languages, and social studies. 

The Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction created a rubric to help ensure that student growth goals are high quality. The rubric checks that the goal recognizes individual student learning needs and develops strategies to address those needs, uses multiple student data elements to modify instruction and improve student learning, and exhibits collaborative and collegial practices focused on improving instructional practice and student learning. 

This is a sample student growth goal from the Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction focused on eighth-grade math.

The Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction developed a template to help educators create student growth goals. It outlines the three-step process of developing student growth goals, including establishing a focus for the goal, selecting assessments, and creating learning targets. 

This presentation from the Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction discusses how to create student growth goals. It describes the various sources of data used in student growth goals and the different types of goals.

This template from the Washington, D.C., Office of the State Superintendent of Education is designed to help teachers and evaluators facilitate the process of writing and submitting high-quality SLOs for review.

This presentation from the Washington, D.C., Office of the State Superintendent of Education outlines the SLO process. Participants will learn to identify the three steps of the SLO process, along with their more nuanced substeps; define possible sources of baseline data that describe both student performance and behavior; and identify the critical steps in selecting high-quality assessments.

The Washington, D.C., Office of the State Superintendent of Education created a presentation that breaks down the different components of an SLO. Participants will learn how to identify the nine key criteria for SLOs and build familiarity with and locate the SLO Development Toolkit resources to aid in the various steps of the process.