9 th Grade Skills Needed for High School and Post s econdary Success

1. 9th Grade Skills Needed for High School and Postsecondary Success Microsoft, 2011

2. Review • Review the differences between high school and college. • What do these differences all have in common? • What words do you see repeated in the guiding principles? Microsoft, 2011

3. Review • Last class we also talked about tips for succeeding in high school and college. • What was the first tip? • How do the other tips relate to that tip? • What was the second tip? Microsoft, 2011

4. Objectives • To learn about taking responsibility for your own learning. • To learn the importance of setting goals. • To learn to differentiate between short-term and long-term goals. • To set SMART goals for 9thgrade.

5. Pre-Test • What are two reasons to set goals? • What is the difference between short-term and long-term goals? • What does the acronym SMART stand for?

6. Discussion: Why Set Goals? • When do you set goals for yourself? • Why do you set goals? • How does setting goals change your performance or how hard you work on something?

7. 10 Reasons to Set Goals • Goals help you be who you want to be. • Goals stretch your comfort zone. Goals boost your confidence. • Goals give your life purpose. • Goals make you more self-reliant. • Goals encourage you to trust your decisions. • Goals help you turn the impossible into the possible. • Goals prove that you can make a difference. • Goals improve your outlook on life. • Goals lead to feelings of satisfaction. Bachel, B.K. (2001).

8. Types of Goals • Short-term goals are ones that you will achieve in the near future (e.g., in a day, within a week, or possibly within a few months). • Long-term goals are ones that you will achieve over a longer period of time (e.g., one semester, one year, five years, or twenty years). Weinstein & Awalt, 2001

9. SMART Goals • SMART Goals are: • Specific • Measurable • Achievable • Relevant • Timely Microsoft, 2011 Adapted from Doran, 1981

10. Become a Goal Getter! • What is the dream you most want to accomplish in your future? • Create a SMART goal for that dream. • Here’s an example.

11. Dream Example • Dream: to be a doctor • What is something I need to do to get there? • I will need to go to college and then medical school • I can write a long-term goal for graduating from medical school Microsoft, 2011

12. SMART Goal Example • What do I want to accomplish? • I want to graduate form medical school. • How will I know when I achieved my goal? • I will graduate. • Is this goal realistic? Do I have the right tools? • If I work hard, take the right classes, have support from my friends, family, and teachers, I know I can do it. • Why is this goal important? • I can’t become a doctor unless I graduate from medical school. • When can I achieve this goal? • I’m in 9th grade - I have 4 years of high school, 4 years of college, and 4 years of medical school. • I can achieve this goal in 12 years

13. SMART Goal Example My goal: • I will graduate from medical school in 12 years and become a doctor. Microsoft, 2011

14. Your SMART goal • On the back of your SMART goal paper, create a long-term goal that aligns with your dream that follows the SMART goal requirements. • When you and your partner have completed your SMART goals, pair up. • Check each other’s goals. Do they fulfill the criteria? Can your partner answer all of the questions on the handout?

15. SMART Goals in Family Connection • Now that you’ve practiced writing a SMART goal and have practiced writing goals in Naviance, you’re ready to write SMART goals in Naviance!

16. SMART Goals in Family Connection • Log in to Naviance • Click on the “My Planner” tab

17. SMART Goals in Family Connection Click on the “Goals” tab Select “SMART Goals” form the dropdown menu

18. SMART Goals in Family Connection • On this screen: • First fill in the SMART goal boxes, answering the questions provided. • Then, type your long-term SMART goal up top.

19. SMART Goals in Family Connection • Don’t worry about adding next steps yet. • To add more goals, return to the “goals” tab

20. Directions • Now, write 2 short-term goals (that you can accomplish this semester) that will help you reach your long-term goal. • If you have past goals from middle school, reflect on them. Have you accomplished them? • If so, great job! • If not, are they still appropriate goals? If so, keep them! • If they’re no longer appropriate, come up with new goals.

21. Directions • When you’ve finished adding your long-term goal, repeat this process and add two short-term academic goals. • Remember, short-term goals are goals you want to achieve in the next day, week, or month. • These short-term goals should be goals that will help you reach your long-term goal. • Add your SMART goal from the PREP as well.

22. Post-Test • What are two reasons to set goals? • What is the difference between short-term and long-term goals? • What does the acronym SMART stand for?

23. Review • Reasons for setting goals • There are 10 reasons on your handout • Examples: Goals help you be who you want to be, stretch your comfort zone, boost your confidence, and give your life purpose. • Short-term goals are those you can achieve in days, weeks, or a month. Long-term take a longer time to achieve like months, a year, or years. • What are some of the goals you set for 9th grade?

24. References • Bachel, B. K. (2001). What Do You Really Want? How to Set a Goal and Go for It! A Guide for Teens. Minneapolis, MN: Free Spirit Publishing Inc • Doran, G. T. (1981). There's a S.M.A.R.T. way to write management's goals and objectives. Management Review, 70(11), 35-36. • Microsoft Office Images. (2011). Retrieved from http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/images/ • Southern Methodist University. How Is College Different Than High School? Retrieved from http://smu.edu/alec/transition.asp • Weinstein, C. E., & Awalt, C. (2001). Becoming a strategic learner: Short and long-term goals. Retrieved from http://www.hhpublishing.com/_onlinecourses/BSL/bsl_demo/bsl/motivation/E1.html