Activity Title:  

 Step by Step to the Goal

Group Size:

The activity can be organized with groups starting from 10 people up to 40 people.

Group Age:

13-18 years old (Secondary school 8th grade and high school students)

Activity Duration:

45-50 minutes.

Overview &Objectives:

 To enable students to identify their dreams and goals and to express them in a concrete form.

 To increase the percentage of reaching your goal by spreading this over time and planning step by step.

 To make the student a starting point for a long road that leads to their dreams and goals.

 Making him aware of which school subjects he should pay attention to for the next steps.

 With this activity, to increase the motivation of students and to increase their interest in lessons, school and life.

 To raise students' awareness of the universal skills required for successful professional awareness

Developing students' awareness of unique skills required for specific professions

 Promoting the importance of school and education

Materials/Equipment needed

Form 1, Form 2,  a pencil

Preparation:

 Form 1 is photocopied before the event.

In order to prepare and motivate students for the activity, a game called "THIS'S ME" is played first. In this game, the teacher makes sentences about the professions and if this sentence is correct for the student, the student raises his hand and says 'This is me'. There are questions to be asked in this game in Form 2.

Tips/comments/recommendations:

 The teacher searches popular professions and their connections with school lessons, and the skills and knowledge students need to have these professions.

 Other useful skills should be improvising, listening and asking open questions, setting up a warm atmosphere that will allow them to express themselves comfortably. For this reason, the questions in Form 2 may change according to the age group and the profile of the participant at the teacher's initiative.

These questions are examples.

Detailed Instructions:

1- Form 1 is distributed to students and they are given 20 minutes.

    Students are first asked to write down their Short Term Goals.

    Again, on the same page, they are asked to write their Medium Term goals.

  Finally, the students write their Long Term Goals and stage 1 is complete.

2- At the end of the period, students who want to share are allowed to read on a voluntary basis. (10 minutes)

3-Students with similar goals are brought together and sit in clusters. And they exchange ideas among themselves. (10 minutes)

     The teacher asks the students in which school classes they need to be successful in order to achieve their Long-term goals, asks them to think as a group about which knowledge, skills and achievements they need, and to reach common decisions by exchanging ideas. It asks whether there are universal skills that may be required for each profession (human, moral values, intelligence, diligence, ambition, etc.) and prepares the ground for the exchange of ideas.

4- At the end of the period, the students mark the 4 questions on Form 1 and the activity ends.

It is recommended that they keep this paper in their room where it can be seen from time to time.