A Lesson on goal setting called: Looking Back/Look Ahead:
January, with the semester change and the new year, is an obvious time of year to think about goals and focus on a plan of action. I found this lesson from East High School and adapted it to meet the needs of my school.
Your Turn To Lead:
OK. I stumbled across this idea while googling team building activities: have advisory groups create and implement a team building activity in other advisory groups. I quickly realized that this met a number of my goals:
1) building of leadership skills
2) building relationships BETWEEN advisory groups
3) creating FUN activities related back to our school's mission
and
4) Students doing MOST of the planning.
Genius, right? Well. I will know for sure by the end of this month. Listed below is the lesson plan I created for getting groups started. They had about 3 group meetings to plan their lesson/activity.
Beginning next week, my first couple of groups will begin presenting their activities. That is when I will really know if this idea works. I am planning to make this into a competition. Our students LOVE a health competition! I will have teachers evaluate the student leaders and I will have the student leaders evaluate the student participants. Here is a copy of the student leader evaluation:
I did the evaluation as a Google Doc form, so that I will be able to easily collect the data for the winning advisory group!
Rules For Being Human: This is a four minute video is based off the book "If Life is a Game, These are the
Rules" by Cherie
Carter-Scott.
After watching the video, students were asked to reflect on the rules and how they apply to their own lives. Students are then encouraged to write their own rules for life. I found this idea over at Middle School Advisory 101. Check out her blog for a variety of great Advisory lessons.
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