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Mathematics and Life 39 Becoming better teacher 2

 Becoming better teacher 2

Goal setting 


While the Vision statement decides where you have to go and the Mission statement helps you to know how to go, Goal setting helps us in measuring how we are actually going ?


If we see a parallel in daily life 

Vision - Where the journey ends. Say going Indore to Mumbai

Mission - How would we travel ? By bike, car, train, flight

Goals - Milestones you read on the way. Mumbai 342 Km etc


Let's get going, the video link will inspire you to work towards setting and achieving goals 


https://youtu.be/Cm0CWN55GiI


Some of the goals I made as a maths teacher were -


  • Create new, unique worksheets - I have designed 350+ unique worksheets which I will be sharing from time to time and will also share the thought behind creating them. 

  • Entertain my students through games and quizzes. 

  • Talk to the not so good doing student and study her notebooks, go deeper on some learning issues. I was running remedial classes in Progressive Education School Indore

  • Read some articles on research methodology

  • Try hands on Canva, Pinart, paint, Google drawing to create posters

  • Design a maths summer camp

  • List the to do works and do them. Plan your work and work your plan

  • Design my day schedule by reducing the unplanned time to the minimum

  • Organise my desk

  • Organise my mail box, Google drive. One day I set whole day just to note down, put in folders various videos, audios, reports, lists I had just uploaded at different times.

  • Writing, posting, this blog daily at 8 am 


You also start setting goals, writing goals, even if they remain under achieved or unachieved. Forming good habits is the most important thing. For example, if you wish to develop writing skills. It will help you a lot if you read this blog everyday and rewrite it in your own words. Someday you will add new angles, more details and lo you are a writer.


I made my first blog in 2012, now I am posting everyday after starting, trying, leaving, retrying, leaving again….but did not leave the Goal


Dr Prakash Moghe

Beyond Abacus

7489447223

drpnmoghe@gmail.com

Comments

  1. Snehal PrabhuneFebruary 23, 2021 at 8:26 AM

    But when environment is not supporting, as a teacher, as a learner, then?

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    1. Dr Prakash MogheFebruary 23, 2021 at 9:05 AM

      Point is not fully clear to me, but setting up change can also be a goal

      Delete
  2. Shruti GoelFebruary 23, 2021 at 5:45 PM

    Right! Setting goal is very important alongwith course of actions to be taken.

    ReplyDelete

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