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Goal Setting Guide. "Teaching Your Children How to Set Goals." Accessed April 2, 2013. http://www.goal-setting-guide.com/self-help-articles/goal-setting Grade Level: 2 and up Description: This website contains many different articles and approaches to goal setting including more long term goals such as New Year's resolutions. The article about goal setting in children includes key things to remember when helping children create and set goals including: start early, let them lead, make a plan, be realistic, and be a cheerleader.

Achive Goal Setting Success.com. "Teaching Children Goal Setting." Accessed April 2, 2013. http://www.achieve-goal-setting-success.com/teaching-children-goal-setting.html Grade level: K-5 Description: This website provides the insight into different approaches and resources for goal setting with children. Includes templates for goal setting worksheets and a life planning workbook.

Oracle. "Goal Setting: A Fresh Perspective." Accessed April 2, 2013. http://www.oracle.com/us/media1/goal-setting-fresh-perspective-ee-1679275.pdf Gradel Level: 3 and up Description: This article focuses more on a goal setting approach towards the business atmosphere but has some great ideas and approaches to goal setting that could be adapted to a classroom setting and relatable to childrem.

Corkboard Connections. "A Special Time to Reflect on Goal Setting." Accessed April 2, 2013. http://corkboardconnections.blogspot.com/2012/08/a-special-time-to-reflect-on-goal.html Grade Level: K and up Description: This blog is a great resource for bringing goal setting into the classroom. It mentions different books and activity sets that can be used to create and organize goals for students in the classroom. As well as a link to the E-Book that is available to buy that includes tons of resources for goal setting.

The Centers for Youth & Families. "Goal Setting for Children." Accessed April 2, 2013. http://centersforyouthandfamilies.org/news/goal-setting-for-children Grade Level: K and up Description: This website looks into explaining to children why goal setting is important as well as how to take on easy goals, which may be beneficial for younger students.

Kidtelligent. "Goal Setting With Children." Accessed April 2, 2013. http://blog.kidtelligent.com/goal-setting-with-children/ Grade Level: K and up Description: This blog looks into the different questions to approach creating and achieving goals with children, and then tying those those questions into different steps.

Education.com. "Goal Setting Practice Excercises." Accessed April 2, 2013. http://www.education.com/study-help/article/setting-goals_answer/ Grade Level: 2 and up Description: Sample of how to create and use a goal setting chart.

Pinterest. "Goals." Accessed April 2, 2013. http://pinterest.com/schreurcat11/goals/ Grade Level: K and up Description: Pinterest board of a teacher that focuses just on different goal setting activities and resources for the classroom.

Life After IEP's. "Teaching Kids to Plan & Take Action Toward Their Personal Goals." Accessed April 2, 2013. http://lifeafterieps.com/teaching-kids-to-plan-take-action-toward-their-personal-goals/ Grade Level: K and up Description: This is a great website for looking at the different approaches and methods for goal setting. The website may have originally been created for children that are leaving the school system and how to adapt to the real world but there are many great ideas listed that can be adapted for children of any age or capabilities. Some methods include: graphic organizers, action planning charts, think-plan-do, etc.

Mind Tools. "Plan-Do-Check-Act." Accessed April 2, 2013. http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newPPM_89.htm Grade Level: K and up Description: This approach to goal setting is a more reflective version of "Think Plan Do". The website includes samples and steps in how to create and implement goals using this process.