Students will choose one learning goal/project to study and implement over the course of an extended period of time- usually one semester or an entire school year. Many teachers encourage students to choose a service project. Whatever the project is, students learn about one thing all year.

There is a big difference between a learning goal and a performance goal. Example: I had a student who wanted to shave two minutes off her mile. She trained all semeseter- however, what was she doing during the 20-Time hour in my class? Nothing. Mostly bugging other students as they were working. She had created a perfomance goal, not a learning goal. Had I known better at the time, I would have prompted her to study how to take two minutes off her mile- a learning goal. Create a workout for the next week. Learn what kind of workout she should be creating. Evaluating what worked and what didn't from the previous week's workout. Examining the type of diet that would be ideal for her situation. You'll want to guide students who choose performance goals into creating learning goals.