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Unit #1 Organization

Enduring Understandings

  1. Students will understand a variety of methods for managing personal organization (computers, calendars/agendas, lockers, binders, time)

  2. Students will apply chosen organizational strategies to their academic life

  3. Students will understand the importance of goal setting and apply the SMART goal setting method to their academics

  4. Students will understand the meaning of extrinsic and intrinsic motivation, elements of intrinsic motivation—autonomy, mastery, and purpose—and will reflect on what motivates them.

Essential Questions

  1. What is my own history of organization? Why?

  2. What does it mean to be organized? How can we be organized? Why is it important to be organized?

  3. What is Goal Setting? Why is it necessary?

  4. How can we effectively set goals? How can we monitor these goals?

  5. What is motivation? What am I motivated about? How can I increase my intrinsic motivation about school?

Course Assessments

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