I set my own goals
Age group
10-12 years
Primary CMS area
Unit 4. Managing life and career
Other CMS areas
Finding and accessing opportunities
Understanding the world
Unit Description
This unit aim is to help students reflect about their personal and professional future. The proposal wants to develop in children a global vision about new possibilities of living their life, using skills, talents and wishes but also, being in contact with parts of the adult reality -family, money, hobbies, leisure, healthy and so.
The activity has an inner approach and also puts the students in the situation to clarify personal and professional ways to design their life, to set goals, to reflect on the type of activities which are proper to achieve their objectives. The teacher has to be a link between the inner world and the external dimension in order to encourage students to choose, compare, analyse and establish new life ways of living according their personality in future world. The second activity is about finding the link between goals, actions and skills and helps children to create a personal vision about the possibility to achieve the goals using the opportunities offered by education, environment, motivation.
Activity 1. I Set My Own Goals
Learning outcomes
- To be in contact with what they are and what they want for themselves
- To explore different life dimensions: family, career, friends, money, leisure
- Put into play different transversal skills such as critical thinking or teamwork through gamification.
Activity Name
I set my own goals
Description
The teacher will spread a worksheet- The Line of Life. This sheet includes a line with marked ages, from 10 to 10, up to 80 years.
Children are asked to imagine their life in different stages and to focus on what they want to achieve as adults, personal and professional goals.
They could choose a moment in future (a particular age) and, for it, they will set goals concerning the domains: family, career, money, friends, clothes, leisure, sports, hobbies, travel, emotions.
The application will be resolved individual after the teacher will give the instructions. The students will present in front of the group.
Instructions:
Think about your future. Imagine what your life will look like. Choose a particular age. Mark on your Line of Life sheet. Consider the dimensions / areas of life below: Family, Career, Money, Free time, Emotions, Friends. For each domain – make a suggestive draw, a symbol, write a single word that suggests how you would like it to be this aspect of your life in the future or explain what you expect to happen.
Learning materials
Timing
- Introduction given by the teacher, spreading sheets. Instructions transmitted from the teacher. (10 minutes)
- Individual solving, reflection. (15 minutes)
- Self-presentation (20 minutes)
- Conclusions (5 minutes)
Role of the Teachers
Facilitate and oversee the activity, motivate, encourages, time control and facilitate the self-presentation/ exposure
Methodology
- I can review my skills in relation to what employers are looking for
- I understand the need to use social media to network for my (future) career.
Assessment
Being a reflective thinker:
Let the students reflect their inferences from their experiences in this course with 120 words as a Twitter sentence.