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It's action packed at our place this week
Goal setting meetings are upon us, happening right now as I type. As you may know in your own worlds, goal setting can be one of 'those things' you either put off or don't feel you have got right right or maybe even start them off with a hiss and a roar and go too hard, too fast too soon and then... nothing!!
Goals form a big piece of our life at school. Supporting children to strive for something, recognise the small steps it will take to get there and celebrating progress is an everyday activity.
Hitting the right spot is the tricky part. According to Locke and Latham who have done a lot of research on Goal Setting Theory... a number of elements need to be at play:
Challenge.
Commitment.
Feedback.
Task complexity.
It's that dance of not setting a goal too challenging, that is way too far in the future and seems extremely onerous to get there - or you don't know the way. No map.
However if it's something that can achieved without effort - it's too easy!
So yes, goals - it's an interesting one and something we always are chatting about.
At school we have the children's goals - the teachers and parents goals for the children - usually a little more mid term. Staff have their team goals and individual goals.
Then there are schoolwide annual targets/ goals in reading, writing, maths, diversity and inclusion, Positive Education and Te Ao Māori. There is the wider Annual Plan which supports all of this and more.
We can't forget our Governance Goals and Strategic Goals.
It's a goals paradise! The good news is they all connect - 2 way - children up or strategic direction down, however you want to look at it.
So here's to a good dose of Positive Accomplishment in 2025 for us all. If you would like to read a little further on the subject - these are some of the main researchers that guide us:
Engagement - Ryan and Deci
Flow - Csikzentmihalyi
Motivation - Sheldon and Lyubomirsky
Hope Theory - Snyder
Growth Mindest - Dweck
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