This document provides guidance for teachers to lead students in tracking progress on their projects, overcoming barriers to success, and reflecting on their experiences. It includes lesson objectives, standards addressed, and outlines three activities for students: 1) Tracking progress and setting numerical goals, 2) Identifying barriers and ways to overcome them, and 3) Self-reflection. Teachers are directed to have students work in teams to complete tasks like setting benchmark goals, listing barriers, and sharing responses. The document also includes examples for global and local projects.
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Lesson 9: Teacher Edition
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TEACHER EDITION
Connection to Taking People With You by David Novak
Materials
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Time: 45 minutes
Lesson Objectives
揃揃 Chapter 12: Understand and Overcome the Barriers to Success
揃揃 Chapter 13: Use Recognition to Drive Performance
揃揃 Lesson nine: Student edition (one per student)
揃揃 Extra paper for each team (optional)
揃揃 Introduction video: http://lead2feed.com/lessons/lesson-9
揃揃 Be sure to visit USA TODAYs e-Edition for articles that may be relevant to this lesson.
Students will:
揃揃 Track and measure progress on their project.
揃揃 Explore ways to understand and overcome barriers to success.
揃揃 Reflect on personal Aha! moments.
LESSON
College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards for Speaking and Listening
1. Prepare for and participate effectively in a range of conversations and collaborations
with diverse partners, building on others ideas and expressing their own clearly and
persuasively.
2. Integrate and evaluate information presented in diverse media and formats,
including visually, quantitatively, and orally.
3. Evaluate a speakers point of view, reasoning, and use of evidence and rhetoric.
Common Core State Standards:
UNDERSTAND AND
OVERCOME THE
BARRIERS TO SUCCESS
CHECK IN!
There is a formal checkpoint
at the conclusion of
activity one for this lesson.
While classes will be
working through these
lessons at their own pace,
checking in at pre-determined
points in the project will
enable us to track your
progress and provide
assistance as needed.
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ACTIVITIES
Activity One: Track Progress and Measure Your Project (20 minutes)
揃揃 Direct students to sit with their teams.
揃揃 Invite one or more students to read the directions.
揃揃 Instruct students, as a team, to set specific numerical goals for their project to display how close they are
to reaching their Big Goal. Have students identify what they will measure, indicate their current progress and set
their benchmark goal.
揃揃 Direct students to take notes on what they can do to reach their benchmark goals.
揃揃 If there is time, ask one student from each team to share their progress with the class.
Global example
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Note: Updated Big Goal
We will earn rice through gaming and bring awareness to hunger with a more manageable goal of 100 pounds of rice.
Then, by launching this successful program, we will increase our chances of winning a $1,000 award from the World
Hunger Leadership Challenge. If we win, we will give our prize to the United Nations World Food Programme to buy
more rice, hopefully reaching one ton of rice which was our original BIG Goal.
290,000 correct Freerice answers equals 100 pounds of rice.
Local example
Measurement Progress Benchmark Goal
Update Facebook and Twitter
accounts
Three days in a row 14 days in a row
Distribute flyers to teachers 20 teachers 30 teachers
Get the media to run a story about
our project
Two media stories Five media stories
Total rice donated 25 pounds of rice 100 pounds of rice
Measurement Progress Benchmark Goal
Total cans collected 850 cans 1,000 cans
Facebook event RSVPs 125 RSVPs 500 RSVPs
Twitter followers 25 followers 100 followers
Teams competing 10 teams 20 teams
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ACTIVITIES
Activity Two: Overcoming Barriers to Success (15 minutes)
揃揃 Invite one or more students to read the directions.
揃揃 Instruct students to list the barriers to success they have come across as a team
揃揃 Ask students to list at least one way they can overcome each barrier.
揃揃 If there is time, invite one student from each team to share their list with the class.
Global example
Now that you have created numerical benchmark goals for accomplishing your Big Goal, it
will be easier to step back and see where you need to improve. Perhaps something has been
standing in your way. Every big project will come with barriers to success, but if you think
about those barriers the right way, there is a good chance you can work past them to
accomplish your goals.
You may ask the class for examples of barriers that they have come across during
work with student organizations or community service projects outside of class.
Ask how those barriers were overcome.
As a team, you have assessed the reality of your project and the barriers to your success. How
would you overcome these specific barriers in order to achieve your goal as a team? Can you
go over, under, around or through the barriers? Sometimes a barrier cannot be easily
overcome. Is there another way to achieve your Big Goal or make it more realistic?
TEACHER
TRANSITION
Barrier Action idea to overcome barrier
It might be hard to raise one ton of rice at the rate and
speed we are going.
3,650,000 correct Freerice answers equals one ton
of rice.
We need more students and a longer time to reach
this goal.
We will multiply our efforts by launching a successful proj-
ect to collect 100 pounds of rice and then we can apply to
win the $1,000 challenge award.
Ultimate goal: Win the $1,000 challenge award with
the more manageable goal of 290,000 Freerice
answers, donating 100 pounds of rice.
Reaching 25 more students to participate in the challenge.
We did not ask enough students.
Not everyone we asked said Yes.
Each team member will recruit at least five more people to
sign up.
We will recruit friends outside of our school.
We still need two more local outlets to run the story.
We did not get a response from the two TV stations
we contacted.
We only contacted one newspaper.
We will e-mail and call different people working in media.
We will tell them about the project goal and our
current progress.
We will ask coffee shops to post our flyer.
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ACTIVITIES
Local example
Barrier Action idea to overcome barrier
Not enough teams have signed up. Create incentives by getting local businesses to donate
prizes for the best structures.
Teams do not have enough canned goods for their
structures.
Create a list of ways teams can gather canned goods.
Organize an official can construction pre-competition
food drive.
The mall is unavailable for the time we wanted to use it. Reschedule our competition.
There are many routes to achieving your Big Goal. There may be ways to avoid barriers you
cant get through.
You may ask the class questions such as these:
Do you find yourself open-minded to suggestions that might help you achieve your Big
Goal, even when they were not a part of your original plan?
Is there anything that happened in the project that was not a part of your original plan, but
helped you to achieve your goal?
Sometimes people suggest new ideas and ways to achieve your Big Goal. Did you get any
suggestions? From whom?
As a team, you have assessed the reality of your project and the barriers to your success. How
would you overcome these specific barriers in order to achieve your goal as a team? Can you
go over, under, around or through the barriers? Sometimes a barrier cannot be easily
overcome. Is there another way to achieve your Big Goal or make it more realistic?
TEACHER
TRANSITION
Activity three: Self-reflection recognition (10 minutes)
揃揃 Invite one or more students to read the directions and the three reflection questions.
揃揃 Direct students to write a response to each question.
揃揃 If there is time, invite several students to share their responses with the class.
CHECK IN!
Ask each team to identify one Benchmark Goal they have set and their progress towards that goal.
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