Just as you will reap huge benefits from having good, solid lesson plans to lead your instruction, setting goals for the rest of your teaching can really help to keep you on track. These goals can be personal and professional. They may also involve meeting academic standards. As you go from day to day, you might deviate somewhat from your goals. Having them to refer to, can help you to stay on course in the big picture. Personal goals might involve your own desires to interact with your students or how you manage your classroom. Professional goals might involve actions you take to participate in your school culture, enhancing your education, and career, etc. And academic goals will involve how you manage instruction and the curriculum to meet the markers for achievement at your school, as well as benchmarks you have for your classroom. The way you manage your goals can be formal or informal. You might want to simply list them in a journal at the beginning of the year and refer back to them from time to time. Conversely, you might want to set short-term, medium-term, and long-term goals and monitor yourself daily or weekly for progress. How you do this is up to you. The key is to set goals and refer to them periodically to help keep yourself on course. Here are some samples of goals you might set:
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