Are you moving a step closer to your goal each day?

New term has just started, are you moving a step closer to your goal each day?

The questions to ask include:
==> Are you moving a step closer to your goal(s) each day?
==> And, what can I do, a step each day, to be closer to my goal(s) and my dream(s).

When you ask yourself these questions each day, you will keep your goal(s) in your mind. Your subconscious mind will go to work for you and if you keep doing this, day by day.. you will be automatically move towards your goal(s).

Review your GOALS

It has been 2 months since we set our goals at the beginning of the year. It is time to spend some quiet moments reviewing our goals.

Questions in reviewing goals include:
1)What are the goals I have set and how much am I achieving?
For eg. If my goal is to score 70% for English in my first school English Test and I am getting 67%

2)What have I done in the past 2 months that leads to 67%
For eg. I spent an hour a day going through (revision) the textbook, workbook and notes. I read story books during the weekend.

3)What can I learn to do better?
For eg. I need to copy/summarise notes from my English teacher in school.

4)What have I done today that makes me move closer to my goal?
For eg. I need to concentrate during the one hour of revision instead of thinking what TV program to watch tonite.
Work on it, my dear students, and dont forget to feedback to me about the problems you encountered. koh_angela@yahoo.com

Create your own Swipe File

Have you started your own Swipe File? A Swipe File can be a notebook or e-notebook which contains useful adjectives, adverbs, synonyms, similes, idioms or proverbs that you can use when writing Composition.

Go ahead and get a notebook. Starting from today, write down any adjective, adverb, simile, idiom or proverb that you read somewhere. Write down the meaning or if there is an example, copy the example as while.

DO IT EVERYDAY, make it a habit and review them at the end of the day.

During our next Creative Writing class, after the Chinese New Year, I will teach you how to put them into practice.

How to start Writing

Last Sunday we learned how to start a Composition.

BY ASKING QUESTIONS
Step 1: Look at the picture

Step 2: Ask questions using such as
What is this picture about?
Or Who is this picture about?

Step 3: Ask questions using WHEN or HOW, such as
When did the event begin?
Or How did the event begin?
WHAT or WHO,
Step 4: Ask questions using WHERE, such as
Where did the event take place?

Step 5: Ask questions using WHY, such as
Why did the event take place?

Practice, practice, and practice by writing down the answers to each question for each and every Composition you are able to find. It is not good enough to know this technique and yet not practice it. Knowledge is king only when you use it!

No Effort No Reward : An hour a day of Study Time

We have started our first creative writing classes for various levels at Admiral Garden CC last Sunday, with information such as the Composition Marking Code and Marking Scheme...

Students were given some Writing as homework. It is important for students to understand that in order to achieve something in life (for example, the Goals you have set previously) you need to put in quality efforts and quality time. There will be no reward without effort. There is only one thing that comes in life without much effort and that is growing and aging.

Hence, I encourage you to put in at least ONE hour of quality time each day revising and collecting notes of what you have studied in school or in my class. Make this a daily habit. An hour a day is only 4% of time of the week (7 / 168 hours per week), I am sure you can do that!

Take ACTION

Glad to receive feedbacks from my former PSLE students that the Setting of Goals message is important and useful to them.

How many of you really set up your Goals at the beginning of the year? It is not difficult to setup goals but the hardest part is always the first step to do something to move the goal forward.

BEGIN now!

Take the first step and get your brain cells alive. For example, if you have set yourself a goal to read a chapter ahead of the class, pick up your textbook NOW, read and highlight the important phrases (like what I’ve taught you in class!). Or if you were to read 2 books a month, go to the library TODAY and start selecting at least 2 books (just in case one of the books is not suitable), borrow them and start reading ten pages NOW.

Do something, get the momentum going….

For those students whom I’ll be seeing this coming Sunday, you will receive a gift from me if you show me the Goals for 2007. See you soon!

2007 Goals

Goals
After the first day of school, it is time to set a few great goals for 2007
A goal is something you would like to achieve in a specific period of time, say in the year 2007.

Examples :
- A good grade (Which grade?) for individual subjects...
- To read a chapter ahead of the class
- To improve English and Literature by reading 2 books a month
- To improve Maths speed by practicing tutorial exercises one extra time round after class
- To be the top 5% achievers in my CCA

Hint: A goal must be clear and specific and usually there must be a timeline for completion.