Goal changes – Journal Entry

How have my goals changed?

Considering I started out the year with a completely different CAS project that involved different goals, more involved with technology. At the beginning of the year, I was planning on providing schools with different technology like computers from Canadian public schools, but difficulties contacting Canadian schools and being locked up inside my house made it hard to create connections and find someone that could supply me with these computers.

This forced me to change up what I wanted to do and the idea of motivation occurred. This changed my overall goal to giving motivation to students and help them realize ways they can overcome their struggles.

My first project experience with CAS is what made me realize I needed to make changes. I wanted to revolve my project with the idea of motivation because it’s something that I lacked heavily at the beginning of this 11th-grade year and online school. Seeing my grades drop is what provided me with motivation to make changes to my everyday routine with school.

A motivational theory (known as the things in a workplace that drive a person to work towards a goal or outcome), that I can connect with is Fredrick Taylor’s motivational theory that says an employee is motivated by money where the amount of work put in a day is the amount it pays. This theory can relate heavily with school and education as an individual needs effort and good work to receive good grades. At the beginning of the year I wasn’t putting in as much effort as I could have in my work, and when I received my grades, they were low. This gave me the motivation to change the effort I was putting into school assignments, and when the next grade feedback came out my grades improved a lot more, which increased my motivation in school even more.