When creating significant learning environments, it is important that outcomes, activities, and assessments are aligned.  Fink’s taxonomy revolves around six key questions for formulating significant learning goals: Foundational Knowledge, Application, Integration, Human Dimension, Caring, and Learning How to Learn. By addressing these questions, educators can create learning goals that not only communicate subject-specific knowledge but also cultivate critical thinking, adaptability, and ownership in their students.

 

Using Fink’s taxonomy, I have developed a plan for my kindergarten students to implement goal setting through the use of goal folders and blended learning stations.  I first created my Big Hairy Audacious Goal (BHAG) and used that as the basis of all the subsequent learning goals, activities and assessments.  My BHAG is based on my Innovation Plan to implement blended learning in my kindergarten classroom through the station rotation model.

 

 

BHAG (Big Hairy Audacious Goal) –

Learners will be driven through self-directed goal setting and reflection using blended learning stations.