ACTIVITY 3: SETTING PERSONAL GOALS
Time: 45 minutes
Materials: Paper, pens or pencils
Objectives:
• Students will determine short-term and long-term personal goals.
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Students will outline the steps needed to achieve their short-term and long-term
goals.
I
ntroduction:
1. Ask students what goals are. Be sure that they understand that goals are things that
they would
2. like to achieve or accomplish.
3.
4. Ask students whether they ever set goals. If they do, do they usually accomplish those
goals? Why or why not?
5.
6. Tell students that having clear goals helps people accomplish things they want to do.
7.
8. Explain that people may have short-term goals (things they want to accomplish in a
short amount of time) and long-term goals (things they want to accomplish over a
period of months or years).
9.
10. Explain to students that for both shirt-term and long-term aspirations, people can follow
a process to make these goals clear and to increase the chances of achieving them.
Explain to
students the following four-stage process:
• WHAT: Define your goal (that is, what you want) as clearly and specifically as possible
(for example, "I want to raise my math grade from a C to a 8 this semester," not "I want
to do better in school").
• HOW: Determine the ways of accomplishing your goal ("I'll do my homework very
carefully and study hard for my test").
• WHEN: Determine when you will accomplish each step of your goal ("I'll do my
homework after school every day and start studying for test a week in advance").
• WHO: Identify the people who can help you (teacher, parent, guardian, older sibling,
tutor).
Finall y, tell students to review the plan regularly and make changes as needed.
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