Short Term Achievable Goals

I was thinking that It would probably  be best for students to selecting some short term goals to acheive byt the end of the week in order to ensure the students definite emeasureable improvement.  Also imporving students awareness of their strengths and weeaknesses as a student.  Ultimately I feel that the student would gain a great deal of expeirence and knowledge from the acitivity

Short erm Achievable Goals

Unstoppable Underprivileged Children

How do you create an Educationally unstoppable child? What essential things are necessary to ensure that a child chooses success in education and ultimately chooses success in life? No human being wants to be unsuccessful, therefore why is this such a troubling question?
Efficacy. Your personal opinion of your own ability level. As educators we attempt to teach our student information to equip them for the future. We have targets, goals and curriculum to meet, reach, and abide by. Ultimately, however have we lost sight of the Big picture. A student said to me the other day "You always talking 'bout the big picture," and I said "Yeah and you don't talk about it enough." But really now I am thinking maybe I don't talk to her enough about the big picture. Maybe we as educators spend so much times talking about Punnet squares, discipline, and standardized test that we forget to tell students to believe in themselves first. I have come to the conclusion that we must make a fantasy world seem possible, close, and real to students that many times don't even have enough hope to dream about a fantasy. Then we must convince them that even though they may falter on their road towards the fantasy that the road does not end at the location of their stumble, but yet at their destination. Lastly we must teach them to learn, no longer can we afford to teach content for content is worthless without application and purpose. We must give these underprivileged students our all...our greatest gift our ability to learn. How? We focus on learning skills not content, we don't cater only to certain learning types instead we demonstrate how to learn through all learning types. We focus on what enabled all of us to matriculate through our educational institutions the confidence to believe that we possess the ability to learn and apply the knowledge that we have gained. Therefore we must not only teach learning, but also how to establish the confidence necessary to accomplish learning.

Learning-Synthesizing and or altering mental representations in order to perceive surroundings in a more accurate manner

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Average people see problems, extraordinary people recognize problems and subsequently determine plausible solutions that become pathways to triumph for them and those around them. It has been a long road.... It has been a long road to be able to consistently look at a student take in all of the negative they are exuding in their moment of glorious belligerence and ignorance and see them for their insecurities and cries for help. I know that these students need something, they need an educator to not view them as a problem, but as a challenge to action. Many issues arise as I have embarked on the last part of this year in education(not the first and sure to not be the last). What does this student see pain, anger, fear and failure? Does this student know the look, smell, feel, and or sound of success. Or is success such a distant thought that there is no real possibility for socially accepted success for the student so therefore why try, care, do, or accomplish? Why do students feel like they can't do things why is this word can't so prevalent in our students language, because there are not enough example of they can. There must be a reason for students holding these views so we must not be so rash to dismiss them, these ideas must be internalized processed and reflected on in order to provide students with real solutions to gaining a less pessimistic view of the world.