GAME Plan for my students

As I've been thinking about the GAME plan for the past few weeks, it has often reminded me of the LEARN model that we are encouraged to use in our lesson planning at my school. LEARN stands for: Link, Engage, Active learning, and Now and then. It has a lot of different ways to approach teaching new material, just like the GAME plan has several ways to reach a goal. When I think about using the GAMe plan with my class, I envision combining it with the LEARN model of teaching. Maybe after the Engage and Educate part, we could set a learning goal for the active learning section. Now and then encourages students to "monitor" and look at what they've learned and what new content that they can understand as a result.

Also, setting goals and realistically monitoring themselves has to be taught, so I would start this process as a whole group, and see where it evolved to from there. With first graders, I think that is the best place to start to teach them about working towards meaningful goals.