Reinforcing my Vision

At the beginning of the year I was excited at deeply motivated by my vision. Fortunately, this excitement has endured as the year moves into a tough stretch. What I have not done a great job sustaining has been reinforcing the importance of my vision with my students. It is so easy to move from objective to objective without pausing and going back to why we are doing what we are. My last lesson, we analyzed our latest unit test, discussed how it related to our goals and our futures, then looked at the college process. Although this lesson didn't move us forward in terms of the curriculum, it was incredibly rewarding and will surely pay dividends in the form of future investment. I would be interested to see what others have done to keep there student's invested in their classroom vision.