Goals
When the New Year comes we create a goal or
resolution that we cannot wait to accomplish.
Often though, just a few days or weeks into the process, we abandon our
efforts because we feel burdened or overwhelmed by our goal. This week the focus is on tools that help us
and our students achieve our goals.
1. Pic Cal Lite is a free app that allows you to
take a picture a day and record it on a calendar. Record a goal or
mini-goal pictorially as you achieve them. Take a picture of desk at the end of
the week, a picture of an A on a Math assignment, or a snapshot of each book or
chapter that you read each day/week/month.
This is a fun way to use the camera on an iPad or iPod.
2. Goal for It:
With this free website you can create behavior charts, goal setting
charts, and chore charts. Students can
create a Goal for It behavior chart citing specific behaviors they want to
chart. You can also create a list that
allows others to “cheer” for you as you work toward your goals. Goal charts can
be used online or created and printed.
3. Keep your self motivated. To Me by Me is an app that allows you to
send messages to yourself. Write reminders to yourself of things you would like to
achieve or send yourself little motivations (great for older children
– or teachers could compose notes to send to younger students.).
4. Reading Rewards: If your students have any reading related
goals this is a fun site for you. Kids track information about their
reading: what, when, how long for. They can print off detailed reading log
reports, and build up their virtual bookshelf.
5. We all know that any progress toward
a goal is good and that the hardest journeys are fulfilled by taking one small
step at a time. Enjoy this video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbMOnyeVE-4
Finally, I’ll leave you with one of my favorite quotes from the late Zig
Ziglar. “What you get by achieving your
goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.”
Have a great weekend and a great New
Year!
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