Goal-Setting and Decision Making

Unit Title: Goal-Setting and Decision Making

Synopsis (Focus, grade/subject, timeline, rationale)

Culminating Activity/Products.

CALM students will use the unit to look into how to set effective, S.M.A.R.T.
goals for their lives, as well as how to make informed, well-balanced
decisions in many different aspects of their lives. The unit will take 2.5
weeks (approx. 12 lessons). The ability to effective plan goals and make
decisions to reach those goals, while simultaneously overcoming obstacles,
is a necessary life skill, and applies to every other aspect of the CALM
course.

Students will create a vision board reflecting one of their long-term goals in
their life. This will require them to research decisions that will need to be made,
and plan S.M.A.R.T. goals which will help them achieve what they seek. The
vision boards will be created physically on poster board: using computer printouts, magazine cut-outs, written words, drawings, etc. It will be used as
inspiration to achieve their goal.

Aim/big idea: To explore intelligent and informing decision making and goal-setting.
Essential questions:
1. How can you, personally, set goals that will be achievable and accessible throughout your life?
2. How can you apply decision making processes and skills to make effective choices throughout your life?
Main Objectives: The student will be able to
Create bucket lists and explore the concept of life-long Outline effective decision-making procedures and apply
goals.
them to given scenarios.
Discuss short-term goal-setting and what it means to have Reconcile the results of bad decisions.
a S.M.A.R.T. goal.
Begin evaluating life-long career and education decisions
Differentiate between good and bad risks, and identify
and goals.
why risk-taking can be important.
Create a vision board to emphasize and achieve a particular
Apply skills for overcoming obstacles to their own lives.
goal.
Alberta POS Alignments
GLO 1: Personal Choices Students will
GLO 2: Resource Choices Students will
P3. Develop and assess personal strategies to enhance creative
R2. Compare needs, wants, and consequences, with consideration of
thinking skills.
self, others, and society.
P4. Develop approaches/tactics for creative problem solving and
R3. Examine sources of lifestyle aspirations, and relate these to
decision making.
personal resources.
P5. Apply a variety of strategies for lifelong learning.
Master List of Major Learning Activities and Experiences
1. Small group discussions and compilations.
4. Full-class discussion.
2. Moodle worksheets and submissions.
5. Direct teaching of concepts.
3. October Sky film, pre-movie questions, and post-movie analysis questions.
6. Vision Boards project.
Master List of Materials, Equipment, and Resources
1. Moodle assignments and submission box.
4. October Sky film
2. myBlueprint.ca assignments and lesson plans
5. Computer lab with internet access
3. myBlueprint.ca goal-setting
6. Poster board and magazines for Vision Boards.

UNITASSESSMENTPLAN

Assessments
Learning
Outcomes

Moodle
Assignments

October Sky

Vision Boards

(Formative/Summat
ive)

Discussions (group
and full-class)
Formative/Summativ
e

Summative

Formative/Summat
ive

Summative

Weighting

30%

50%

10%

10%

Title
Type

P3. Develop and assess

personal strategies to
enhance creative thinking
skills.
P4. Develop
approaches/tactics for
creative problem solving
and decision making.
P5. Apply a variety of
strategies for lifelong
learning.
R2. Compare needs, wants,
and consequences, with
consideration of self,
others, and society.
R3. Examine sources of
lifestyle aspirations, and
relate these to personal
resources.

Assessment Tool Overview

Assessmen
Brief Description
t Tool
Discussions
(group and
full-class)

Students will be presented with new ideas and scenarios which will require
discussion, both with the class and in small groups. Participation in these
discussions (and presence in the class) is used to foster necessary life skills and
professionalism that will then extend into their future careers.

Moodle
Assignment
s

After lessons and discussions, students will complete sets of online worksheets
and responses with class time to complete them.

October Sky

Students will fill out a formative pre-movie questionnaire about their current
views decision making and goal setting. They will then view the movie, and
respond to several reflection questions afterward. This will include a reassessment of their pre-movie thoughts and ideas.

Vision
Boards

Students will create a vision board reflecting one of their long-term goals in their
life. This will require them to research decisions that will need to be made, and
plan S.M.A.R.T. goals which will help them achieve what they seek. The vision
boards will be created physically on poster board: using computer print-outs,
magazine cut-outs, written words, drawings, etc. It will be used as inspiration to
achieve their goal.

Assessment
FOR
Learning

Assessmen
t AS
Learning

Assessmen
t OF
Learning