LESSON TITLE

							 Planning for Success

                                                    GRADE 3-5 SESSION 2

 Time Required: 30 minutes

 Content Standards:
 Personal/Social Development
 A. Students will acquire the knowledge, attitudes and interpersonal skills to
    help them understand and respect self and others.

 Indicators:
 Students will be able to gather, analyze and apply information and ideas.
 Students will be able to communicate effectively within and beyond the
 classroom.
 Students will be able to make decisions and act as responsible members of
 society.


GOAL: Students will develop skills and strategies
to increase the amount of homework completed
and submitted.

 Activity Statements:
 Students will increase the amount of homework completed and turned in.

 Materials:
 Small Group Counseling Guidelines
 Chart paper and markers
 Pencils
 Copies of a planner or calendar pages for each group member
 Teacher/Parent/Guardian Small Group Session Follow-Up

 Procedures:

          http://missouricareereducation.org/curr/cmd/guidanceplacementG/elearning/
Planning for Success

                                                           GRADE 3-5 SESSION 2
Session #2 Professional School Counselor Procedures:   Session #2 Student Involvement:
1. Review the Small Group Counseling                   1. Students listen and describe what it looks and
   Guidelines).                                           sounds like to meet those expectations.

2. Remind students that the goal of this group is      2. Students listen.
   to develop strategies to help them to be more
   successful. One strategy for successful time
   management is using a calendar or planner.
   Tracking homework assignments and other
   activities is a great starting point.

3. Give each student a calendar or planner. Ask
   students to enter special projects and major        3. Students write special projects and major
   assignments from their assignment list. Have           assignments into their planner or calendar.
   students share one thing from the list and
   work as a group to enter that assignment into
   the planner.

4. Tell students, “Now we know when the
   assignments are due, but when are you going         4. Students discuss and choose a “homework
   to work on the assignments?” Discuss the               time” that is recorded in their planners.
   importance of setting aside a “homework
   time” in their daily schedules. Have students
   write a homework time in their planner.

5. Ask students: “Homework is not the only
   activity you have. What are some other
   activities you are involved in?” Instruct           5. Students share some of the additional
   students to include these events on the                activities with the group and add those
   planner/calendar as well.                              activities into their planner.

6. Ask students: “Why is it important to write
   down each assignment and activity in the
   planner? Are their other activities you would       6. Students may respond: “The calendar/planner
   want to record in your planner?”                       helps us to keep track of our homework and
                                                          activities. We won’t forget to do something.”
7. Ask students, “Who else uses planners and
   calendars? Why do they use these planning
   tools?”                                             7. Students discuss different careers and other
                                                          life roles in which planners and calendars are
8. Closure/Summary: “Share one way you will               used.
   use your planner this week.”

9. Group assignment: Continue to use the               8. Closure/Summary: Students share one way to


            http://missouricareereducation.org/curr/cmd/guidanceplacementG/elearning/
Planning for Success

                                                           GRADE 3-5 SESSION 2
Session #2 Professional School Counselor Procedures:   Session #2 Student Involvement:
    planner. Have parent signature on planner              use their planners.
    each day. Bring the planner to the next
    session.                                           9. Group assignment: Students will bring their
                                                          planners and report on using the
                                                          calendar/planner during the next session.




Discussion:
How does time management and organization aid in homework completion and
in turn improve grades?

Additional Resources:
Adapted from
http://missouricareereducation.org/curr/cmd/guidanceplacementG/responsive
/index.html.



Extension Activities:
Check with teachers and parents to identify progress of the members of the
group in using the calendar/planner.




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