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A2. Decision-Making Strategies and Goal Setting Throughout this course, students will:
OVERALL EXPECTATION
A2. apply various decision-making strategies to help them set goals, reflecting on and documenting their goal-setting process
SPECIFIC EXPECTATIONS
A2.1 apply various decision-making strategies as they set personal, social, educational, and career/life goals, then evaluate and revise those goals based on what they learn about themselves during this course
Examples
Decision-making strategies: make lists of pros and cons; create a web or mind map outlining various options and their implications; reflect on their options with family members and friends; speak to a guidance counsellor, Elder, Métis Senator, knowledge keeper, knowledge holder, or other trusted adult; prepare a list of criteria for evaluating options
Goals: Personal: to find relevant opportunities to volunteer, including volunteering as a mentor, that ref lect their interests and what they have learned about themselves in this course; Social: to join an extracurricular group or club that ref lects their interests; Educational: to make course selections informed by their personal profile and Individual Pathways Plan (IPP); Career/life: to seek part-time work in a career sector that interests them
Processes for evaluating and revising goals: make a habit of monitoring their progress towards meeting their goal, and noting the kinds of obstacles they face along the way; use the insights they gain through self-monitoring to recognize when it’s time to decide on adjusting either the pathway to their goal or the goal itself
Teacher Prompts
Why is it important to have short-, medium-, and long-term goals?
Why is it important to develop your decision-making skills? How can they help you to achieve your goals?
Why are some decisions easier to make than others? What strategies have you used when you have had to make a difficult decision? Why it is helpful to seek different perspectives before making a decision?
Have you ever made a decision that a friend or a caring adult did not approve of? How did you cope with that?
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