Monitoring My GAME Plan

When I make goals, the hardest part for me is actually completing the goals. I would say that I average about 50-70% completion of all my goals throughout my life. Just to show you here are some examples of completing goals:

Soccer Championship
BPA Officer
BPA Scholarship
High School Diploma
Acceptance to The Ohio State University
Getting my Bachelors Degree with a teaching certificate from OSU
Getting married
Having a baby--who is now 2.5 years old

Now here are some goals that haven't been reached/completed

Lose the baby weight
Give up Pop
No sugar
Any New Year's Resolution




So it's not always easy completing goals that we set. In terms of My GAME Plan, monitoring the GAME Plan is the most important part to completing my goals. Information and resources have been abundant for my goals. Most of those resources are for providing varied assessments for my students. For this particular goal, I have learned that I still need to work on my knowledge of assessments and work at it to get it to the level it needs to be. I feel that I need to modify the GAME Plan for this goal, so that it includes more of me learning about Assessments in general and the concepts of it. Then being able to delve into the different assessments available and beginning to implement them into the classroom.

For my second goal, collaborating with students, peers, parents and community members is going so-so. I am getting great support from colleagues and administrators. They are helping me find resources needed and providing me with details on how to form collaborative partnerships with schools and businesses in the area. I am finding it harder to collaborate with parents. I knew this would be an area of challenge. Most parents are busy with work, raising other children, children's activities, and then their own personal lives. So I am trying to figure out if there is a way to schedule or get around these issues with the parents. Of course one parent did contact me and explain that she felt very lacking in knowledge and did not feel comfortable with using technology but would love to help out in other ways. The thought occurred to me that maybe we could invite parents and some members of the community to an Evening of Learning--hosted by the students. Students would be able to teach those who did not feel comfortable with technology. This could included--internet, email, skype, Microsoft Office and even get into some of the bigger software that my student's use--photoshop, premiere, etc.

For both of my goals, things are falling into place, there are some issues that have come up. When that happens, I just need to refocus and reorganize. It is important to be able to adapt and look at the bigger picture.

Now I need to go back and start on those goals that I have yet to complete....