New Year's or Back to School Goal Setting Activity Project Middle High School

Help your students long-term goals with this GREAT goal-setting framework at the start of the year or semester or anytime!

This complete kit includes self-reflecting, building action plans, and following up with a persuasive letter and science-backed goal-achieving tips.

This universal kit works in any setting, from the classroom or advisory to clubs, sports, and student council, to help build the soft skills of growth mindset and stretching outside comfort zones.

Greatness is identifying areas of self-improvement and working to strengthen them.

The GREAT framework helps students upgrade a general wish to an actionable and achievable accomplishment with wrap-around support the whole way.

With this kit, you guide students in brainstorming and fine-tuning the perfect-for-them-right-now goal, building a ready-to-implement action plan, then following up later when motivation may have waned.

This project combines SEL skills with academic writing and psychology to create the ultimate real-life PBL.

Project kit includes:

• Teacher / Advisor overview detailed plans for each activity
• Project coversheet checklist with step-by-step student directions
• Core Values Inventory activity to help decide goal focus area
• GREAT GOAL Upgrade activity to learn the GREAT framework by taking unGREAT goals and making them better
• My Great Goal & Action Plan sheets to flush out exactly what and how students will do the impossible
• Goal bricks in 3 options to declare goals and create a wall display
• Persuasive Appeals Mini-lesson with handout and quiz to teach how ethos, logos, and pathos all help to motivate oneself
• 12 Inspirational Quote sheets for students to write motivational letters to themselves (using ethos, logos, or pathos!) to get back several weeks or months later reminding them of their goal
• 3 Goal Setting Tip sheets to help students use science-backed advice to stick to their goal
• Samples, Tips, & Rubric sheet for students to create amazing goals and letters
• PDF and EDITABLE Google files for all student materials

Use all sorts of ways like:

• Start of the school year in the all or for New Years
• At mid-semester conference or switch to second semester
• Start of a sports season or club activity
• Save for a quiet week on your Student Council group's calendar

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