Bonnie's goal is to relax and smile more. One student's goal was to learn the names of his classmates. To help him achieve this goal, I often asked him to pass out papers to the class. Other common goals relate to planning for cross-age mentoring with 1st and 2nd graders and peer tutoring within our classroom. The conference form continues with goals related to Linguistic Intelligence.
Students tend to have very specific Logical-Mathematical goals.
For Visual-Spatial goals, students often aim for achievements in geometry and art. Bodily-Kinesthetic goals often include earning the Presidential Physical Fitness Award, a concrete achievement. Our goal-setting form mentions two goals beyond Gardner's system. Checking In February brings a second round of conferences to review progress toward the original goals. I begin by asking the student for self-evaluation.