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Lesson plan:• Starter: Questions & discussion (5 minutes)
• Short-term & medium-term goals - reflection and discussion (5/10 minutes)
• Reading newspaper articles - students choose which one is most suitable for them (15/20 minutes)
• Long-term goals - reflection and discussion (5 minutes)
• Career goals discussion (5 minutes)
• Career values - pyramid ranking exercise (10/15 minutes)
• Reading - What can we learn from others (15 minutes)
• Plenary: Video - The happy secret to better work (12 minutes)
Thinking aheadLearning objectives:
•To consider what your short-term, medium-term and long-term goals are and how you plan to achieve them
•To reflect on other people’s achievements and advice
Starter: Self-reflection
Did you set yourself any New Year’s resolutions?
Have you broken them?
Short-term & medium-term goals
• What goals do you have for the rest of the academic year?
• What goals do you have for the next 5 years? Are these likely to change?
Do any of these sound familiar?
• Get my grades
• Have an enjoyable summer
• Get into my first choice university
• Settle into university life
• Make new friends
• Pass my degree successfully
• Get a good job
How to achieve your goalsWhat can you do to achieve your goals?
What did you learn from your January mocks?
What advice do the experts give?
Task:
• Choose one of the following articles to read. Choose one that you feel would be most useful/ relevant for you.
• Reflect on and discuss:
• What advice is being given? How could it help you achieve your goals?
• http://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/nov/21/how-anxiety-scrambles-your-brain-and-makes-it-hard-to-learn
http://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/oct/24/want-to-learn-faster-stop-multitasking-and-start-
daydreaming
• http://www.theguardian.com/education/2006/aug/10/universityguide
https://www.york.ac.uk/students/support/health/problems/adjusting/
http://time.com/2853974/10-life-lessons-you-can-learn-from-the-smartest-older-people/
http://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/nov/07/grandmaster-memory-teach-something-never-forget
http://www.forbes.com/sites/deborahljacobs/2012/06/25/the-best-career-advice-i-ever-heard-
dream-big-dont-fret-about-things-you-cant-change-and-18-other-gems/
Long-term goals
• What long-term goals do you have?
• What influences your long-term goals?
What influences what you want to do in the future?
Career goals• What do you hope to do when you finish university?
• How will you decide what job to do?
• Are you worried about your professional future?
Task: Career values pyramid
You will see a series of statements. Try to put them into the following pyramid shape, showing how important you think they are.
1
2 2
3 3 3
4 4 4 4
Career values pyramidPut a number beside each statement to show where you would place them on the pyramid.
Where can you find out about different career options?
Informing yourself: Where can you get extra
information on future careers?
• National Careers service
• University career services
• prospects.ac.uk - careers service
• Newspapers
What lessons can we learn from older people?
Source: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/features/people-over-65-shared-their-greatest-regret-in-life-the-most-common-one-may-surprise-you-a6800851.html
What do you think their answer was to the following question:
"What do you regret when you look back on your life?"
"I wish I hadn't spent so much of my life worrying."
What do you think their answer was to the following question:
"What do you regret when you look back on your life?"
Source: https://www.quora.com/When-people-look-back-on-their-lives-what-are-common-regrets-they-have/answer/Karl-Pillemer?srid=J7c3&share=1
Read
Source: https://www.quora.com/When-people-look-back-on-their-lives-what-are-common-regrets-they-have/answer/Karl-Pillemer?srid=J7c3&share=1
Read
http://www.bakadesuyo.com/2013/04/most-important-life-lesson/
Read 30 Lessons for Living: Tried and True Advice from the Wisest Americans
TED Talk: The happy secret to better work
http://www.ted.com/talks/shawn_achor_the_happy_secret_to_better_work
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLJsdqxnZb0
or
The happy secret to better work - key messages:
• 3 Gratitudes
• Journaling - 1 positive experience in 24 days
• Exercise
• Meditation - focus on task at hand
• Random acts of kindness
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