Activity Overview: Now that students have set a school goal, they will use the same process to create a personal goal. Students will create a personal goal, and determine the steps they need to take in order to achieve their goal.  Students may want reference relevant writing exercises they have completed to help guide the goal setting.

Objective: Objective: Students will create tangible and realistic goals focused on school.  

Prep Time: 10-15 minutes (preview lesson on FQI)

Duration: 40-50 minutes (10 minutes, intro; 20-30 minutes, goal tutorial/activity; 10 minutes, debrief)

Assessment: Varies

Student Instructions:

1. Sail to About Me Mountain.

2. Open the treasure chest, and open “My Personal Goal.”

3. Click through the slides to review the goal-setting process. (You can click on the speaker to listen if you’d like!)

4. Complete the “My Personal Goal” activity.

5. When you finish, click SAVE at the bottom of the page. Your response will be saved in your portfolio.

Key Questions:

• What can goals help you achieve?

• Can everyone benefit from setting goals? Why or why not?

• How can you demonstrate resilience if you don’t meet a goal you have set?

Lesson Steps:

1. Students will benefit from examples of personal goals versus school goals.

Personal goals can focus on family, friends, your attitude, physical fitness: anything you want to work on outside of your school life.

Example of vague versus specific goal:

Vague: I want to be in better physical shape.

Specific: I will run one mile three times a week, and register in the local 5K which is in 3 months.

2. Students will review the FQI tutorial about goals and goal setting. Students can click the speaker icon to hear audio of the text.

3. Students will then set a long-term school goal. They will also create three short-term and deadline-driven goals to support their school goal. Students will save their work in their portfolio.

4. If time allows, students can share reflections on the activity, ask for peer feedback, and/or share the goals they have set.

Assessment:

• Teachers should review student work, providing  “teacher comments and coin ratings [1].”

Accessibility:

Standards/Frameworks:

• CDE Benchmarks: A1-2, A 2-3, A 4-1, PS1-3, PS 2-4, W 1-1, W 1-2, W1-3, W2-1, W 4-2

• ELA Frameworks

  • Grade 6: CCRA W.5, CCRA W.6

  • Grade 7: W 7.5

  • Grade 8: W 8.5

• Technology Literacy Standards and Expectations: 1.18 , 1.21, 1.25