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Study Skills for High School Students Curriculum
Unit 2 – Goal Setting – Chapter Two Goals and Objectives: •
Break down goals into incremental steps
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Create visual models for goals
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Establish academic goals and incorporate study guide templates to achieve them
Reading and Comprehension Checkpoints: These questions are designed to help you facilitate a powerful in-class discussion based on student reading assignments. The answers are included.
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Q: Why is it important to set both long-term and short-term goals? A: long-term goals will help you achieve future aspirations; short-term ones will help you reach the long-term goals
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Q: What are some examples of short and long-term goals? A: short: get an A on a test, practice at a sport; long: career, family, friends, finance
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Q: Which of the techniques for setting goals, as discussed in the book, are you willing to commit to? Why? What will you gain from this commitment?