1. DISCOVERING HOW TO REACH OUR GOALS
Here we are with the third step of our coaching journey. The activities that we approach in this phase are collected in the pages 75 – 84 of the guide (here you have it once again, just in case https://www.dropbox.com/s/tj99jg8ik1w3cf1/coaching%20resize.pdf?dl=0 ).
This stage can be quite tricky for the young participants but also for us, educators. It’s not an easy task to transform big dreams into realistic objectives and specific goals. We might know very well the theory, write the word “SMART” with lot of colors on a big paper hanged on the wall, but not having success in explaining it well to our participants and actually support them in defining the goals and objectives for their follow up plans.
Our suggestion?
1. Try it yourself first, and not just once but many time with different ideas.
2. Give it time. If at first it seems that the objectives are not specific or measurable enough, leave it aside for a while or ask other participants to cheap in and support.
3. Use the activities that we included in the guide or make some new ones! Or maybe…improve ours 🙂
2. TASK
Here’s a task to do so:
Go to the forum and tell us a way in which you would improve one of our activity OR a tool that you can use in one of them OR write down your experience with one of the activities. An example? You can create a custom map with google maps and do your own mapping of the resources in your city…how? Have a look at this website –
https://multimedia.journalism.berkeley.edu/tutorials/create-custom-maps-in-google-maps/
3. FORUM
DISCUSSION – IMPROVING AN ACTIVITY OF THE THIRD STEP