In the beginning of the year, I actually started
talking about goals for my September bulletin board called Let’s Start of the
School Year “Write” being on Point.” The students had to write how they would
stay on point in the school year. One example was “In Second Grade, I will stay
on point by listening to my teacher and showing respect to others.” Our mentor
is Lainey Dorris and the students were engaged watching her video! Her video
was insightful for my students to understand the meaning of setting a goal.
Also goal was one of our spelling words so we discussed the meaning of the word
and the students learned the difference between a short and long-term goal. Majority
of my students’ goals were receiving a 100% on their assessments because we
keep track of their performance through a progress tracker system where the
students record their tests, grade, and reflect their feelings on the
assessment. Some students goals weren’t academic based and I remind those
students that we are working on achieving those goals such as improving
handwriting or sitting the correct in a chair or carpet.
To start my goal setting lesson, we read the story “Oh
the Places You’ll Go by Dr. Seuss, the character goes on an adventure to these
different places and he discovers that he will decide where he will go and he
will be successful with a positive attitude. My students discussed how they can
be a winner in school and what kind of places do they want to go to achieve
their dreams. This book is a great tool to motivate students to think about
where they want to go in the future. For the activity of setting a goal, my
students used an index card to write down their short term goal for school and
my students shared their goal to their classmates. Lainey’s video helped my
students to identify what type of goal that they should want to achieve in
school. Now I wanted to have my students focus on a goal where they felt needed
improvement such as staying in the homework club. It is a personal goal that
they weren’t forced to choose with requirements and hopefully it will have a
positive effect in their performance. Lastly, each student shared their goal to
their classmates and we snapped fingers after each goal to show supports of
their goals.
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