Monday, 10/19 9th and 10th grade CLASS

Grade 9:

Students did an activity where they wrote their ultimate career goal -- where they wanted to be when they were in their mid-40s like me. (This created some debate as to whether or not I am in my mid-40s.)About 10 lines below the goal they wrote where they are right now, 9th grade. We then thought about all the goals they have to reach in between now and their ultimate career goal and we wrote those down between 9th grade and ultimate career goal. I told them these are long-term goals. All of them have the long-term goal of graduating high school and going to college.

Then we talked about what they need to do right now every day to make sure they achieve the long-term goal of high school graduation and going to college. They said, "have good attendance, do all of my homework and turn it in, study for tests, etc." I had the students write down these short-term daily goals on a notecard and tape it to the inside of their binder. So you can ask to see it and check in on how they are achieving these goals.

Grade 10:
We spent the period writing our answer to a question that can later be woven into a Personal Statement. The question is: "What are your educational and career goals? What specific steps have you already taken on the path to reaching them? Which of your personal weaknesses could keep you from achieving your goals, and how are you addressing that?"

All students went over their written answers with me and I will keep these in a file to pull out next year and tweak as needed.