DUMB Goals, Fixed Mindset, SMART Planning

Most of my adult life I've grown accustomed to "SMART" goals.  You may know of them as goals that are Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and Time-bound.  Other things I've learned: share your goals so you can be kept accountable to keep your goals.  There is a lot of research out there being done on what motivates, what inspires, and how people get the drive to do something with their lives.

As part of my training to be a Family and Consumer Sciences Teacher, I have to develop a unit plan with lessons for each day I spend on the unit with my imaginary students.  The unit I selected falls under Nutrition and Wellness, and includes a section on setting goals, and with all the research that is happening, I decided to incorporate some of this new information into my lesson.

What is a flipped lesson?
In a traditional setting, students attend school to hear a lecture from the teacher.  They go home and complete homework based on what the teacher said.  In a flipped class, this plan is reversed, so students watch a lecture at home, and then practice, discuss and complete projects in the classroom alongside their classmates.

Why is this lesson flipped?
In this flipped class, student discover works from the various people mentioned in the summary below to help them start discovering their "DUMB" goals as well as developing the right mindset to embrace their goals.   Derek Sivers gives a great talk about keeping your goals to yourself, weird, right?  Students actually watch the short TED talk given by Sivers beforehand to help them understand why they're to keep their goals and plans a secret. (You can view his talk here: Derek Sivers's TED Talk)

Summary of the video:
Students are reminded to keep goals and plans private.  They will be exposed to Patti Dobrowolski's Drawing Solutions to help create a more concrete visualization of where students "are" and where they want to be in the future.  Brendan Burchard gives a talk about setting DUMB goals, or goals that are Dream-driven, Uplifting, Method-friendly and Behavior-triggered.  Setting DUMB goals may put a student out of their comfort-zone, so student begin to look at Carol Dweck's concept of developing a Growth Mindset. Students are using Dobrowloski's method during the video, drawing their goals, as well as reflecting on a couple parts of the lesson that will be discussed in class the following day.

In the second part of the class they will explore steps, or SMART planning to get to where they want to be in life.

Here is the lesson.  Please leave any comments or suggestions to make it (and other future lessons) better!  Thank you!