This past week we had a whopping 2.5 days of school. I began the week introducing an Olympics Unit to the class by putting on a model Olympic Bid pitch. I was expecting the students to collaborate and conduct research together later in the week, but due to the snow that hasn’t been able to happen. One thing that I noticed a few weeks ago that I was able to re-implement this week was goal worksheets. When I have the students working in groups, I’ve noticed that some tend to slack off while others do the majority of the work. I brought back our NHD goal-setting worksheets with hopes that they would get the students to set their own goals and try to achieve them daily. From my monitoring of the classroom I was able to see that the students were, as expected, setting daily goals and reflecting on them at the end of each class. I was really impressed by this. Last time I noticed a few students filling in their reflection at the beginning of class because they forgot to the day before, but this time they looked like they were all doing what they were suppose to. I haven’t had the opportunity to collect and closely review all of the goal-worksheets yet because of the stupid snow, but I’m hoping from the improvements that I’ve already seen that these goal worksheets are going to be even more impressive than the last batch.