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