Since we are still so close to the New Year, I wanted to focus on goal setting today. To me goals and resolutions are exactly the same. To start our discussion about goal setting we watched a commercial.
We watched this video three times. The first time that the class watched they just watched for their enjoyment. The second time I asked them to look for what they noticed (they noticed a ton). Finally the third time they watched I asked them to look for what the young man grabbed after he set his new goal. They were all able to tell me he grabbed his goggles. After I got the answer, I had the groups turn and talk and think about why he grabbed his goggles. They all knew that the boy was going to practice.
I love this commercial for talking about goals. It is so easy to make a goal. I have made a ton since the New Year. The challenge of goal setting is the work that follows. At an early release earlier this year a presenter showed us a video from a U.S. olympian about how she sets her goals. I decided that we would watch a few parts of the videos to see how an olympian set her goals.
In the video Emily Cook talks about how she made her goal to get to the Olympics. Then she creates her goal pyramid and talks about all the steps she had to make to reach her goal.
I really want our students to have goals. I want them to have goals about school, about their future jobs, about where they want to go to college, and about anything else they want. At the same time I want them to understand that when you set a goal this is just the first step in the process.
Over the next few days we are going to have the class make goals for something they want to accomplish during the rest of this school year. Today they worked on creating a goal about anything they wanted. I enjoyed listening to all of the different goals from the classes. I also shared some goals that I had made for this year.
Goal Number One: Run the Flying Pig half-marathon in under one hour and 45 minutes (I realize this is not a blazing fast pace, but I would be happy).
Goal Number Two: Continue to work on speaking fluent Spanish. I have found a great app and have been working each day since the New Year. My mother speaks fluent Spanish and she always wanted my brother and myself to learn, so hopefully I can show her I have finally learned.
Goal Number Three: Try to add one blog post a week where I talk about something from the professional world of education.
Goal Number Four: Read more books. I have gotten used to reading articles and blogs online. I want to get back to reading more books.
Have any of you set goals to accomplish in 2014? Do you want to share them with us? What will you do to make sure you accomplish the goals? Let me know by leaving a comment if you want. I would love to share your responses with the class.
Hope you are all having a great week.
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