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Hey everyone, I am sure as many of you are, I am very excited to start filming for the digital story telling project. It should be a really fun video! That being said, Zach thanks for all the prep work you have down with the script and songs. Also Zach and Karan had a good lesson on Tuesday over setting goals with SMART and the M’s. I like SMART because it helps set your goals and I like M’s because it helps you figure out how to accomplish the goal.

My goal for next year as a peer mentor is to learn my students’ names within the first three weeks and make a connection with each one of them. This goal is Specific because I want to know names and connect not just I want to get to know my students. It is also Measureable because I put a time limit on it and I ether know their names or not but connection is a little harder to measure. One way I can maybe measure my connections could be, knowing personal facts about my students, something they like or where they are from. Achievable is the next one and my goal is reasonably achievable, with the retreat and a couple classes I think I can get their names down in three weeks. My goal is Relevant because if I show the initiative to learn their names, my students will be more will to approach me with any issue that may arise. As I already said my goal is Time-limited which I set to three weeks for learning names. As for the M’s – Motivation, Make comments, Modify environment, and Monitor actions. My goals have motivation to learn my students’ name because I don’t like it when people forget my name so I should at least learn their names. I also am terrible with names, sometimes someone will tell me their name and 5 seconds later I have already forgot so this will be good practice. I can make comments if I can remember someone name and then modify environment to aid in remember a name. I can monitor my process by attempting reciting my students’ name in classes.