Start with the end in mind! Honors student will be reflecting on their goals for the rest of the semester. What do you want to create by the end of the semester? Many of the students are involved in extra-curricular activities, but many clubs and sports are not student driven. This needs to change. I want students to start seeing themselves as leaders. They will analyze the SEE - DO - Get cycle and start living it at school through the classroom and activities. I am excited to see some of the their goals. I will post some as I get them. | My Commitment: What do I want? What are my goals? Is it okay that some days my goals are focused on small things? For example: Get to know my students aspirations. Or my larger goals: Create projects where the high schoolers and middle schoolers collaborate? For now, my goal is to create a better World History Honors Project. Since the honor students are my students to these habits, I also want to commit to making their program better. Since I am having them document their honor experiences on Weebly, I am collecting data to better assess what went well and what can change. I want to finally commit to these students who voluntarily signed up complete extra work. However, I do not what to just create more "work." I want to create meaningful experiences that defines what "honors" truly should be. I want their Weebly pages to go with them into their junior year so this requires me working with the 11th grade history teacher. Now that I am seeing the end in mind, I will be able to map out what to do. This will get me to my goal and hopefully make a meaningful project for the World History Honor students. |
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2/12/2015 12:14:23 pm
Working on creating goals with your students is a great activity, and it's amazing what you'll learn about them as individuals through this process. How are you planning on having them track their goals, making sure they stay focused? One thing I've done in the past with my sixth graders is have them write down their goals on a 3 x 5 card and illustrate the card using images of their goals. I then laminate the cards and tell the kids to keep the cards in their pockets, or tape them to their desk. Many cards do eventually get lost, but the students who treat the cards well and have them at the end of the semester are usually the ones who have achieved their goals. I really like your idea about creating a project where your high schoolers and middle schoolers can collaboratively work together. This will develop great leadership skills for the high schoolers, and will impact both groups in many other wonderful ways. Could this project be the one you spoke of where you'll be reading "Faithful Elephants?" It could be neat to see the difference in perspectives between the middle schoolers and high schoolers in regards to this book.
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