Planning & Goal Setting

The goal of this unit is for students to demonstrate the ability to apply planning and goal setting strategies and skills to enhance personal, family, and community health goals.

Planning and Goal Setting: Sequential personal and social skill comprised of multiple subskills, that when performed together, enable an individual to develop health enhancing short-term and long-term goals, and develop, implement, evaluate and revise health enhancing plans to accomplish the goals.

Planning and Goal Setting covers the following topics:

• Goal Setting & Values
• Writing SMART Goals
• Creating Action Plans
• Identifying Potential Barriers to Achieving Goals and Developing Strategies for Overcoming Them
• Support Networks
• Healthy Rewards
• The Relationship Between Goal Setting and Decision-Making

Health Content Highlight: 

• Nutrition

            US Department of Agriculture

• Physical Activity

            YMCA - Clifton Park, NY

• Dangers of Performance Enhancing Drugs

            Healthy Competition

Grades for this unit will include, but are not limited to the following assignments:

• Planning & Goal Setting Packet
• 100th Birthday Newspaper Article
• Short-Term Personal Goal -- Track for 1 month
• Picture of Health Project

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