Goal setting 1: Setting goals - SEL Lesson

Use this ready-made SEL lesson focusing on the subskill of 'Goal Setting' to help you with social emotional learning in the classroom.

This is lesson 1 in a series of 8 and it's designed for use as one of your SEL activities with the whole class, a small group, or one-to-one. Self-Management is one of the five components that make up CASEL's model of SEL education. To find other SEL activities, please visit our homepage and search through hundreds of SEL lessons created by educators and other experts in SEL education.

Our digital SEL lessons integrate with Pear Deck to facilitate student engagement. These lessons include interactive, age-appropriate social emotional learning activities, questions, videos, and animations for every CASEL subskill.

Bring more confidence and motivation into your classroom by working on goal setting, the ability to think about something you want to achieve, set a goal and be able to plan a way to reach that goal. The goal setting strategies embedded in these social emotional learning activities contribute to a lifelong skill that is useful far beyond classroom education, helping your students achieve their aspirations and fulfill their potential.