Goal Setting
Planning meeting recording, which includes Welcome to Our Journey Goals slides are here, but will make more sense as part of the recording.
A preview of the planning manual. All weird
formatting errors are totally Heatherle’s fault because Evan did not make this
draft spiffy.
This month's video lesson may contain several
big points:
- The definition
of a goal
- Why goal setting
skills are important
- The types of
goals (long or short term, personal or academic, etc.)
- How the mentor
set goals in his or her own life
- The importance
of telling others about your goals
- A challenge to
students to set their own long term and short term goals, and to share
them with each other, their families, you, and your mentor.
You may want to prepare
for watching the video lesson by:
- Planning for
vocabulary development as needed
- Choosing an
anchor text about goal setting
- Thinking over
what sort of anchor chart or graphic organizer you will want to use
- Preparing a
place in your classroom to display student goals throughout the year, or
to help students record their progress over the year.
I'm sharing lots of information that might be helpful. Please pick
and chose what makes sense to you.
Mentor texts and read alouds will be at the bottom of this blog
entry.
Vocabulary Development
- Create a working
definition of "Goal." The mentor videos have some really good
ideas on this, and it might even be worth watching just the first minute
of several to see different people's takes on this topic.
- Aspects of goal
setting to take into account when creating a definition might be:
- specific
- measurable
- time related
- something the person wants to do (personal investment)
- can be broken down into steps
- with support, it is something a person could really
make happen
Need a video?
This four-minute animated TedEd video by Steve talks about
decision making, consistency, and sometimes adjusting the plan on the way to a
goal.
Anchor charts, graphic organizers, and displaying goals
The very best examples of this are the lessons created by the
2014-15 group of Classroom Champions teachers. They used everything from goals
written on clouds, to mini me drawings on paths and tracks and roads, to
dreamcatchers, banners, sentence strips, and photos of students holding signs.
Teachers
displayed goals on walls, classroom doors, ceilings, taped to desks, and inside
of personal journals.
The target chart (pictured) and a pyramid (first introduced in this classic video lesson) have both been
effective graphic organizers over the years.
This blogger uses a hand as
a graphic organizer.
Quotes
to Inspire Discussion
Teachers use these to spark discussion, as
writing prompts, as a greeting in the morning on the board.
“Failure is an opportunity to begin again
more intelligently”
- Henry Ford
“The biggest mistake you could ever make, is
continually fearing you’ll make one”
- Elbert
Hubbard
“Giving up on your goal because of one
setback is like slashing your other three tires because you got a flat”
- Unknown
“A goal properly set is halfway reached.” - Zig Ziglar
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Goodread’s list of quotes about goal setting
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Top 15 Goal setting quotes here.
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Inspirational quotes about goals and goal setting.
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50
goal quotes that will inspire and motivate you.
Small
Bits of Inspiration
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A google image search for “goals
+ inspiration” yields great visuals to inspire your goal setting practices!
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Some funny, some touching, all
inspiring on this Edublog - “The Best Video Clips on Goal
Setting”
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One-Step-at-a-Time Goal Achieving
Cartoon Doodle Video
● Good visual reminder - “5 Ways to Follow Through on
Your Goals”
Ideas specifically for
olders:
You might like this Omeleto video of a
spoken word poet talking about regrets, and how taking healthy risks is good
and we all need to magnify our gifts.
This
article is about identifying a need in the world, and going after the
solution. Steve’s TEDx
Calgary talk relates to this as well.
A few interesting resources for you as a learner:
CC friend (and Steve, Elana, and Akeem’s coach) Stu
MacMillian is an interesting follow on Twitter and Instagram. He is a big
reader, and often summarizes big ideas on his feed. Here are his thoughts on
how to give feedback around goals.
NPR recently reported on a research
project in participated in writing exercises around goal setting erased the gender
and race gap among 700 students. (Thank you Janet Ilko for this link)
A TED playlist of goal setting and
decision making talks, including one of my favorite TED talks ever: Diana Nyad and her swim
from Cuba to the US at age 64.
Anchor texts for Goal Setting
The best way to learn about setting and accomplishing goals is to
analyze the methods of people who have successfully done that. Biographical
texts of innovators and accomplished people are going to lay out the
process in an easily understood way. Finding a biography of someone relevant to
another subject area you are working on this month is a great way to integrate
Classroom Champions topics into your core curriculum.
Here are some favorites, appropriate for most grade levels. The
links are to Goodread because those listings contain the information that you
need to order the book from the library.
Read
Alouds & Mentor Texts (Picture Books)
Beautiful Oops! - Barney Saltzbur
Giant Steps to Change the World - Spike Lee
The Dot - Peter H. Reynolds
Ish - Peter H Reynolds
The Most Magnificent Thing - Ashley Spires
The Girl Who Never Made Mistakes - Mark Pett
It’s OK to Make Mistakes - Todd Parr
Your Fantastic, Elastic Brain - JoAnn Deak
What Do You Do With An Idea? - Kobi Yamada
Keep an eye out! The
companion, What Do You Do With a Problem? is about the be
released!
Rosie Revere, Engineer - Andrea Beaty
In the same series, check out Iggy Peck, Architect & Ada Twist, Scientist
There - Mary-Louise Fitzpatrick
Captain Arsenio: Inventions and (Mis)adventures in Flight
- Pablo Bernasconi
The Perfect Percival Priggs - Julie-Anne
Graham
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Goal Setting picture books for
kids here.
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Best children’s books for
teaching about goal setting and ambition here.
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Read alouds to inspire hopes and
dreams here.
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14 Books to inspire children to follow their
dreams (many great biographical stories with stunningly beautiful pictures)
Read
Alouds (Novels & Non-Fiction)
Arcady’s Goal - Eugene Yelchin
Teddy Mars Book #1: Almost a World Record Breaker
- Molly Burnham
For middle school students, try the narrative, nonfiction profiles
of innovators and dreamers in magazines like National Geographic, Sports
Illustrated, Wired, and Fast Company.
Want more? A roundup of biographies by Goodreads, Barnes and Nobel (including some graphic
novels and books for older students), and Powell's Books (mostly middle readers).
This list from A
Mighty Girl features inspirational books with and for girls, including hard
work, perseverance, and goal setting.
For middle school students, I am also a big fan of the narrative
nonfiction profiling innovators and dreamers in magazines like National
Geographic, Sports Illustrated, Wired, and Fast Company.
