Last week we worked on ESMART goals and I am poems.
ESMART goals are different from typical goals because you need to be able to justify and hold yourself accountable with an ESMART goal. ESMART is an acronym for Emotional, Specific, Measurable, Action Steps, Reasonableness, and Time oriented goals. If a student claimed they had a goal, they needed to back it up by filling in all of those categories or else it was more of a dream than a goal. Most students thought long term about future careers and where they'll be while some thought about the here and now and just really wanted to graduate from middle school.
Our next assignment was I am poems. I am poems are great because you get to do a self analysis and answer questions about yourself that you typically wouldn't even think about. The beginning of every line would start with "I" and it would be followed by "wonder", "feel", "cry", "dream", etc. This way students were challenged to think about themselves and only themselves. Here are a few examples of what the students came up with:
Overall this was another great week and we'll try to keep the great momentum we have going!
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