Teaching goals and objectives.
Examples of Teachers Goals and Objectives
Student Academic and Behavioral Development
- To improve students’ academic performance
- To instill students with intrinsic motivation to learn
- To assist the school, i.e., administrators, teachers, students and support staff, to reach their academic and behavioral benchmarks and goals
- To instill Positive Action principles into students’ cognitive, affective and behavioral learning domains
- To contribute to the teaching and achieving of core performance standards and outcomes - To improve students’ behavior
- To develop students’ character
- To develop well-rounded students: including physically, intellectually, socially and emotionally
- To develop thinking skills, and the use of the six units as a framework for thinking
- To promote good mental health in students
School Wide Climate
- To assist the school, i.e., administrators, teachers, students and support staff, to reach their academic and behavioral benchmarks and goals
- To achieve a violence and drug free school
- To create a positive learning environment throughout the school
- To teach that all activities and curriculum in the school are positive actions, including content area learning (reading, writing, math, etc.)
Training and Staff Development
- To develop teachers who use positive approaches to instruction and classroom management
- To develop administrators who use positive approaches to leading and school management
- To develop a support staff who use positive approaches to supporting students and school personnel
- To understand research-based theories of learning, education, behavior change, and their relationships to Positive Action
Parents and Community Involvement
- To involve parents in their children’s education
- To involve community members in education by providing support and resources to the school
- To involve community members in developing a positive community for children and youth
Multilevel Goals
- To unify the individual, school, family and community with a universal philosophy and a common language
- To encourage accountability across the social strata
- To develop adults who model and practice the positive actions they are teaching students and expecting them to use
- To teach the intuitive philosophy that you feel good about yourself when you do positive actions
- To teach that thoughts lead to actions, actions lead to feelings about yourself and feelings lead back to thoughts in a circle
- To teach the importance of interconnectedness among social ecologies and influences - To teach positive actions for the physical, intellectual, social and emotional areas