Day 9

Day 9
• Backward plan
• Decide personal goals
• Schedule an interview with the students

On this day, since the teacher has introduced a type of planning strategy, which is called backward plan, our group started to plan the ultimate goal as a group as well as the personal goals. Backward plan is planning projects in the opposite way of executing. For instance, in backward planning you first decide the ultimate goal, then the processes, and lastly how to begin this project, etc., which will be in the order of completely opposite from the order that you will choose in the future.

As a group, we decided that our ultimate goal is to promote students work in the school community by comfortable ways, in order to make their projects more memorable and valuable. For individual group members, we decided the personal goals according to our roles. For instance, if the role is to update the blog, then the goal is to learn techniques for decorating and making the blog more attractive. If the role is to communicate with necessary people, then the goal is to speaking, writing or making questions more effectively. If the role is to periodically record our progress and write reflections, the goal is to diligently writing reflections that clearly shows what steps did we take and how did we accomplished.

Moreover, the communicator also sent e-mail to selected students, in order to arrange the time and have interviews with them. Since the students are in middle school while we are in high school, we will have to use our lunch time – which is advisory time for middle school – in order to have good interviews and to finish our first work.