1.Step 1. Make your goals for yourself regarding desired outcomes for this course explicit. What is your goal for a grade? Your goal for learning specific knowledge or skills? Define at least two goals for this course.

Step 2. The next step is to break down each goal into ‘goal behaviours’.

These are the specific behaviours that will allow you to achieve each goal in Step 1. Examples of goal behaviours might include 100 per cent attendance, taking good class notes every day, reading assigned chapters before class, outlining chapters, writing definitions of new words, participating in class discussions, setting specific study times for exams, answering end-of-chapter questions, or completing ‘Workbook’

assignments. Define a minimum of four goal behaviours that will lead to the achievement of each goal in Step 1.

Step 3. In groups of three to five students, compare your goals and goal behaviours.

Students should take turns sharing goals and behaviours with the group.

Step 4. What did you learn from hearing the goals and goal behaviours of group members? How different were the goals and behaviours of group members? Which combination of goals and goal behaviours seems most likely to be successful?

Step 5. On the last day of class, meet again as a group. Each student should report on the degree of success following goal behaviours and achieving goals. Share what you learned from this experience. Your instructor may ask your group members to report their findings to the class