Plan and achieve life goals: Apply life skills as evidence of an ability
☼ Types of goals ☼ Five-step method for planning and goal-setting
Goals definition: Goals are the things we want to achieve in life. It is our plans and Step 1: Write down your goal.
aims. They are different from dreams and wishes in that we can take active steps
to achieve goals. We can turn our wish into a goal. Step 2: Check to see if it is a smart goal.
Importance of goals: 1. Take chage of your life Step 3: Make an action plan to achieve your goal.
2. Make decisions and have a sense of direction Step 4: Do it. Carry out your action plan.
Smart Goals: Step 5: Evaluate if you have achieved your goal.
☼ Problem-solving skills
Step 1: Explain the problem. Define the problem and say what it means.
Step 2: Gather information about the problem.
Step 3: List as many possible solutions as you can
Types of goals:
Step 4: Make a table and write down your problems and solutions.
1. Short-term goals: we achieve it in a short space of time. Eg: a project to finish on the weekend
Step 5: Think of the effects / consequences of each solution.
2. Medium-term goals: Something you want to achieve in the next 6 months.
Step 6: Choose the best solution.
3. Long-term goals: These goals you want to achieve in a few years. Eg: being a doctor.
☼ Relationship between personal values, choices and goal-setting
What are values?
- It is the principals you think are important in life. It helps you to make decisions on how you want to live your life and set your priorities.
- It will influence the kind of goals you set in your life. Your values will shape your mission statement.
- Things that will influence your values are your environment, your school, important people in your life etc.
, Relationship and their influence on your well-being
☼ Types of relationships with different people or groups
☼ Changing relationships
Family:
*where your first relationships are formed + where greatest change in relationships takes place
*parents and family are aware of the changes you are going through + need time to adjust
☼ Skills and qualities which make good relationships
*they prepare you for the outside world: learn the importance of sharing and accepting
- Unselfish - Caring & sympathetic
responsibilities and the need for order and routine, absorb attitudes, values and ways of behaviour
- Mutual respect - Ability to communicate
- Accepting people as they are - Able to work as team
- Good listener - Supportive ☼ The effect of gender roles on men and women
☼ Power and gender in relationships
In society there are traditional gender roles. In traditional gender roles, being
masculine means being dominant while being feminine means being submissive.
☼ Power and gender in relationships
Examples:
The role of power in relationships
Women are emotional and let emotions rule their lives
Having power means having control over something or someone. In relationships one
- Men are more interested in sex than women
person may have power over another. We call these relationships power relations.
- Women are more mature than men
- Engineering in not a career for women Gender roles and stereotyping
- Men are insensitive
Gender stereotyping is when people think that someone behaves or will behave in a
certain way because of their gender. For example, thinking that all girls like to cook,
Men earn the money and women spend it.
☼ Types of goals ☼ Five-step method for planning and goal-setting
Goals definition: Goals are the things we want to achieve in life. It is our plans and Step 1: Write down your goal.
aims. They are different from dreams and wishes in that we can take active steps
to achieve goals. We can turn our wish into a goal. Step 2: Check to see if it is a smart goal.
Importance of goals: 1. Take chage of your life Step 3: Make an action plan to achieve your goal.
2. Make decisions and have a sense of direction Step 4: Do it. Carry out your action plan.
Smart Goals: Step 5: Evaluate if you have achieved your goal.
☼ Problem-solving skills
Step 1: Explain the problem. Define the problem and say what it means.
Step 2: Gather information about the problem.
Step 3: List as many possible solutions as you can
Types of goals:
Step 4: Make a table and write down your problems and solutions.
1. Short-term goals: we achieve it in a short space of time. Eg: a project to finish on the weekend
Step 5: Think of the effects / consequences of each solution.
2. Medium-term goals: Something you want to achieve in the next 6 months.
Step 6: Choose the best solution.
3. Long-term goals: These goals you want to achieve in a few years. Eg: being a doctor.
☼ Relationship between personal values, choices and goal-setting
What are values?
- It is the principals you think are important in life. It helps you to make decisions on how you want to live your life and set your priorities.
- It will influence the kind of goals you set in your life. Your values will shape your mission statement.
- Things that will influence your values are your environment, your school, important people in your life etc.
, Relationship and their influence on your well-being
☼ Types of relationships with different people or groups
☼ Changing relationships
Family:
*where your first relationships are formed + where greatest change in relationships takes place
*parents and family are aware of the changes you are going through + need time to adjust
☼ Skills and qualities which make good relationships
*they prepare you for the outside world: learn the importance of sharing and accepting
- Unselfish - Caring & sympathetic
responsibilities and the need for order and routine, absorb attitudes, values and ways of behaviour
- Mutual respect - Ability to communicate
- Accepting people as they are - Able to work as team
- Good listener - Supportive ☼ The effect of gender roles on men and women
☼ Power and gender in relationships
In society there are traditional gender roles. In traditional gender roles, being
masculine means being dominant while being feminine means being submissive.
☼ Power and gender in relationships
Examples:
The role of power in relationships
Women are emotional and let emotions rule their lives
Having power means having control over something or someone. In relationships one
- Men are more interested in sex than women
person may have power over another. We call these relationships power relations.
- Women are more mature than men
- Engineering in not a career for women Gender roles and stereotyping
- Men are insensitive
Gender stereotyping is when people think that someone behaves or will behave in a
certain way because of their gender. For example, thinking that all girls like to cook,
Men earn the money and women spend it.
