Teaching goals and objectives.

Examples of Teachers Goals and Objectives

Student Academic and Behavioral Development

• To improve students’ academic performance
• To instill students with intrinsic motivation to learn
• To assist the school, i.e., administrators, teachers, students and support staff, to reach their academic and behavioral benchmarks and goals
• To instill Positive Action principles into students’ cognitive, affective and behavioral learning domains
• To contribute to the teaching and achieving of core performance standards and outcomes - To improve students’ behavior
• To develop students’ character
• To develop well-rounded students: including physically, intellectually, socially and emotionally
• To develop thinking skills, and the use of the six units as a framework for thinking
• To promote good mental health in students

School Wide Climate

• To assist the school, i.e., administrators, teachers, students and support staff, to reach their academic and behavioral benchmarks and goals
• To achieve a violence and drug free school
• To create a positive learning environment throughout the school
• To teach that all activities and curriculum in the school are positive actions, including content area learning (reading, writing, math, etc.)

Training and Staff Development

• To develop teachers who use positive approaches to instruction and classroom management
• To develop administrators who use positive approaches to leading and school management
• To develop a support staff who use positive approaches to supporting students and school personnel
• To understand research-based theories of learning, education, behavior change, and their relationships to Positive Action

Parents and Community Involvement

• To involve parents in their children’s education
• To involve community members in education by providing support and resources to the school
• To involve community members in developing a positive community for children and youth

Multilevel Goals

• To unify the individual, school, family and community with a universal philosophy and a common language
• To encourage accountability across the social strata
• To develop adults who model and practice the positive actions they are teaching students and expecting them to use
• To teach the intuitive philosophy that you feel good about yourself when you do positive actions
• To teach that thoughts lead to actions, actions lead to feelings about yourself and feelings lead back to thoughts in a circle
• To teach the importance of interconnectedness among social ecologies and influences - To teach positive actions for the physical, intellectual, social and emotional areas