Dream Setting to inspire learning

Goal setting may sound dreary to some people because it is associated with too much seriousness and toiling. Student who are taught goal setting the wrong way get a bad impression of this worthwhile exercise. ‘Dream setting’, on the other hand, emanates more positivity and hope.

Dreams are exciting. They put a smile on our faces. We yearn to achieve dreams and some people even dream about them. Dreams have proven to work miracles for adults like Singer Shakira, Walt Disney, Eleanor Roosevelt, Martin Luther King and many more. There is no doubt that dreams work for children as well. What teachers and parents may do is to help students see the academic perspective of their dreams. Many children would ever have the dream to be pilots or astronauts. Adults should not only immediate acknowledge such dreams, but direct children towards achieving them. Tell them that to be a pilot or astronaut, they will have to do well enough for college. Ask a commitment of academic results from them. Let it come from the child himself so that he owns his dream and his commitment.

As featured in The Secret, dreams of individuals become extremely achievable when they are translated into visuals. Help your students or children come up with A4 posters with a visual of their dreams. Such personalized posters take less than 10 minutes to make with Google images and Microsoft PowerPoint today. Have the child put up this poster in their bedroom, or somewhere they can see it everyday. Inspiring learning and achieving dreams may be as simple as this.

The author is the founder of Shimes Education. Find free ‘dream posters’ and other teaching resources at Shimes Education