What Students Will Learn

• Five “I’ll Make It Happen” words that will change their lives.
• The six “Bummer Words” that will hold your child back from reaching their full potential.
• Five ways they can check their progress toward reaching their goals.
• Five ways to stay positive and focused.
• How to manage their time more effectively.
• The importance of helping others.
• Six ways to identify and overcome potential roadblocks.
• How to increase their self-esteem.
• How to take ownership of their home work responsibilities.
• The five elements of success.

Where is it Being Used?

Each of the eight chapters in Goal Setting for Students^® is specifically designed to facilitate meaningful discussions on these important life skills issues.  Table of Contents                                                                                 

The Goal Setting for Students^® book is used in all environments where children are being encouraged to succeed.

• Home schooling
• Classrooms
• Church groups
• Guidance counselors
• After school programs
• Girl scout groups
• 4 – H groups 
• Alternative education programs
• At – risk programs
• Summer camps

Table of Contents

Each Chapter includes:

• Topic information
• Review
• Real World Example
• Points for Discussions

 

Chapter Highlights:

1. What is success?

• Success means different things to different people.
• Success is setting and achieving your goals.
• Success takes desire, planning, and action.
• Success means reaching your goals even when the going gets tough.

2. Principles of Goal Setting

• Why goals are important.
• Difference between a goal and a dream.
• The four key elements of goal setting. 

3. Samples & Practice

• The importance of stretch goals.
• How to develop an “I’ll Make It Happen” attitude.
• Sample and practice goals for each area - school, personal, and sports/hobbies.

4. Investing in Yourself

• The “Bummer words” that hold you back from reaching your goals –no, can’t, won’t, maybe, never, and if. . 
• The importance of being positive.
• How to improve your self image.

5. Measuring Your Progress toward reaching your goals

• Two essential questions to ask each day to keep you focused.
• How to take more personal responsibility.
• Why helping others is important.

6. Meeting the Challenges

• Identify potential roadblocks to your success.
• How to change roadblocks into minor setbacks.
• The importance of eliminating excuses.

7. How to Get Started using the Goal Setting for Students® principles.  

• Ten points to keep you focused on goal setting.
• Where and when to start. 
• Ben Franklin’s thoughts on character education.
• Educational contract.

8. Book Summary

9. Ready to use Goal Setting form

10. Top 10 downloaded Teaching Moment character development ideas

Who Should Buy the Book?

All people interested in helping teenagers succeed in school and in life.  A short list would include: parents, teachers, teenagers, counselors, homeschoolers, tutors, and people working with church groups, alternative education, summer programs and after school programs.                                                                      

Who is Accent On Success? 

I became social entrepreneurs after a life-changing event that involved my granddaughter. 

She attended a “magnet” school in the St. Louis Public School system.  At a parent– teacher conference I read some essays posted on a bulletin board entitled “The Night.”  One seventh grade girl wrote:

 

“I’m not afraid of the night.

I’m not even afraid when I hear bullets.

I take my brother and we lay down in the bathtub

until the shooting stops.”

 

Accent on Success®, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping children succeed, is the direct result of that young girl’s essay.  John Bishop is the Executive Director of the organization.                                                  

Our first book, Goal Setting for Students®, took more than 1-½ years to write and had valuable input from more than twenty-five professionals with advanced degrees in teaching and curriculum development.  The book has received three national parenting book awards. 

After the awards John received numerous requests for additional ideas to help positively impact children’s lives.  The Teaching Moments life skills ideas that we email twice monthly to subscribers is our response to those requests.

We sell the book to help fund the organization's activities (much like the Girl Scouts sell cookies).  However, the Teaching Moments are FREE.  

                                                                                                                       

 

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