Activity 22

Creating a College Goal

What Students Do

Students review the work they have done in the previous activities and synthesize their thoughts into a draft college goal statement. Once written, they discuss the statement with parents, teacher and college guidance counselor. Based on these discussions, they re-draft their goal to make it more specific or to include ideas that previously had not occured to them.

Planning

Review the information students have collected so far. If the information is kept in a notebook, students will be able to use it when writing their goal statements. Let your school guidance counselors know that your students will be requesting time with them to discuss their goals. You might refer them to this training module to orient them to Post-ITT.

Introducing the Activity

This activity may seem simple to some students and difficult to others. Have them review the information they have collected to date. If they have explored these goals in discussion, picture, or activity format, it is now time to write it. Remind them that they have already done the hard work and that nothing of this sort is ever final. They may want to create more than one goal statement with the idea of sorting it out over time. The statement should include an outcome interest, a college and dates to initiate the goal. Examples are provided in the activity. Ask students to be open to the discussions they will be having once they have written their initial draft and plan the possibility of rewriting their goal.