Big Goal Setting Essay

In this essay I will be evaluating Alice’s goals using the SMART goal planning model. The character of Alice, her goals, and the SMART goal planning model have been provided to me in the textbook, Personal Finance (Siegel, 2009). Alice’s goals include pay off student loan, buy a house and save for children’s education, accumulate assets, retire, and travel around the world in a sailboat.

It is important for my students to understand and value learning goals in the classroom. At the start of every chapter students will be supplied an outline of what they are going to encounter in the upcoming weeks.

Once I have identified the student’s motivation I would develop an individual plan that would remove each of these barriers and enable the student to move to the next level.

I want my students to be responsible and ready learners. I will begin the year providing direct and explicit expectations and routines that should be followed in the classroom. As the year progresses, I will scaffold the amount of teacher control, and slowly give my students more responsibility over their learning. I want to create students who are ready to learn, and who take responsibility for their actions as learners.

I want improve upon my understanding and ability to create purposeful, contextually-relevant lesson and unit plans which are Backwards Designed, well scaffolded, and have meaningful formative and summative assessments (Goal 5).

As previously stated there have been and are going to be an extensive amount of opportunities for team members to achieve and complete their personal learning goals. All team members have been given the opportunity to announce and discuss which particular learning goal they are most wishing to achieve, or a few of them. This was discussed within the first few meetings, and different roles, responsibilities and task were allocated accordingly, to best suit every team member's personal learning goals they are wishing to achieve.

This discussion then forms a mutually agreed individual learning goal that will enable them to achieve the required outcome. This then allows SMARTER objectives to be set.

It is by these short term goals that teachers can teach the long-term goals required in their district or school curriculum. The first goal, getting students to love writing, is fostered by giving students real time, real choice and showing genuine interested in what they put down on paper. (Fletcher &

Students are able to see themselves as individuals with various skills and abilities, and understand that they can make choices about how they wish to move forward

The story takes place at a fictitious town called Bearington where the Uniware manufacturing plant of the UniCo Company is situated. Whatever products the plant manufactures was not mentioned in the novel. The plant is headed by the plant manager Alex Rogo who is also the lead character of the novel.

The first SMART goal that I would like to accomplish to help improve my leadership skills if barcoding all stock rooms for each department. Barcoding each department will save time, money, faster customer service, and better accuracy of ordering. The nurses would save time as well as they are not having to input a fourteen-digit number to charge just one item each time a supply is used on a patient. They can focus more on the patient.

Something else I learned from completing this assignment was effective goal-setting. When we set goals, they should be:

Students are able to see themselves as individuals with various skills and abilities, and understand that they can make choices about how they wish to move forward

Mrs. Peterson began her lesson by using a goal-setting strategy. This strategy was utilized by beginning with the end result in mind. Mrs. Peterson framed the lesson by stating what the learning objectives and goals were for her students before the lesson even took place. She also posted the learning objectives on the board for students to view during the lesson. This tactic is helpful in case students get off track, they can easily be reminded what the desired results are for the end of the lesson.

From the time I was a seven years old till the current day, as a Sophomore at Benedictine University, I have wanted to become a teacher. The four years of high school, Oswego High School, I truly become passionate to become a teacher. I took the necessary general education classes, and my elective classes learning about child development and early childhood education. Once I graduated high school, I felt confident to become a teacher, but I discovered that special education was what I truly wanted to do. From the first day or first grade up to now, I have become a success student, which I can’t wait to become teacher I want to be an aspirational teacher one day to my future students.