Goals and Objectives :: Goal D :: An Example

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In this goal, students will assess their strengths, model themselves after people who are drug- and violence-free, and act to reduce drugs and violence in their communities. How would such a strategy work? Consider the following two hypothetical students:

• Student A is a high-school athlete. His strengths are not only his ability to play sports well but also his capacity to persuade others to follow his lead. He looks up to his older brother, a college quarterback. His brother has followed a life free of drugs and violence, and the two often talk about the pressures Student A sometimes feels at school to take drugs or get into fights. Student A's brother convinces him that he has a responsibility to lead his friends away from drugs and violence; he works with him to enlist his coach to help provide a series of skill trainings for all athletes at the school.
• Student B is in the eighth grade. She loves to organize-everything from parties to funding drives. In many ways, her tendency to get along well with teachers and other adults diminishes her popularity with her peers. Student B feels threatened by the drugs and violence she sees around her. She takes advantage of her relationship with school adults to get them to help her survey the students in her middle school about their attitudes toward drugs and violence. Student B gets her principal to commit to holding a schoolwide assembly to tell everyone about the results of the survey and what the school will be doing to improve the environment.