The Lighthouse
£340About this course
This workshop has a powerful visual metaphor as its central idea; a lighthouse. What is the function of a lighthouse? To guide you on your path and steer you away from danger. Your students will create their own personal lighthouses to reflect their ideas for the future and what tasks needs to be completed along the way. This is the most effective target-setting and action-planning workshop available in education. Help your students to realise their aspirations.
Rationale
Setting goals helps trigger new behaviours, helps guides your focus and helps you sustain momentum in both your studies and your life overall. Goals also help to align your focus and promote a sense of self-mastery. Setting goals not only motivates us but can also improve our mental health and our level of personal and professional success. According to the research of Edward Locke and Gary Latham (1990), goals not only affect behaviour as well as academic performance, but they also help to enhance motivation, leading to higher effort. Research done by Moeller, Theiler, and Wu (2012) examined the relationship between goal setting and student achievement at the classroom level. This research examined a 5-year quasi-experimental study, which looked at goal setting and student achievement in Spanish language lessons. A correlational analysis of the goal-setting process as well as language proficiency scores revealed a statistically significant relationship between the process of setting goals and language achievement.
Studies suggest that goal setting is associated with multiple, positive benefits, for a range of ages and abilities, across academic subject areas.
Institute of Education Sciences – 2018 (US)
Objectives
- To clarify education and career ambitions.
- To set realistic and achievable goals.
- To create an action plan for achieving said goals.
- To foresee obstacles and distractions.
- To build confidence in their ability to progress.
Skills taught and their Benefits
Goal setting is an essential component for growth and development in our students for several reasons: It personalises the learning process based on their needs. It creates intention and motivation that empowers students. It establishes accountability to shift responsibility to students.
Prioritising helps you decide on what’s most important and to complete the most essential and most urgent tasks first. It helps you to focus. Students are less likely to become sidetracked when focussing on their list and they will gain more of a sense of purpose.
Action planning is an approach which helps to generate and then focus ideas and tasks and then decide what steps you need to take to achieve your goals.
Identifying those that can help to achieve your goals is a great way for students to realise that they don’t have to do this all alone. Discussing things with a friend, parent or teacher, enables you maintain momentum and draw on useful Advice for accelerating progress.
Reflecting on positive, past experiences in which we made progress and felt good about ourselves encourages us to develop the belief that we can achieve the goal in front of us. If we did that, then we can do this!
Outcomes
By the end of the workshop, your students will have:
- Clarified their aspirations and ambitions.
- Set realistic and achievable goals.
- Created an action plan.
- Identified obstacles and potential setbacks.
- Identified specific people to ask for help and advice.
- Be inspired and motivated to begin taking action
“80% of students agreed that they were better able to make decisions about their future”.
Survey from 4101 students taking part in MADE Workshops, conducted by NSSW, part of the National Collaborative Outreach Programme.
Statutory Guidance, Curriculum and Frameworks
GATSBY Benchmarks: 3,5,8
NERUPI Framework: Choose, Become, Understand
PSHE Core: Living in the wider world
- The Lighthouse contains strategies that are also featured in PH: Goals and Aspirations
- If students are taking part in The Lighthouse they should not also take part PH: Goals and Aspirations in the same school term
- Many schools that book The Lighthouse find that these further workshops work well in combination:Exams MADE Easy, Studying MADE Simple, CSI: Mind Mapping, Stepping Up
- Recommended add-ons: All Power Hours, Parent Workshop, Staff 1hr CPD
Note to parents
The strategies within this course are designed to help your child plan, structure and conduct their revision in the most effective manner.
It is important to note that each child has individual strengths and preferences and will therefore benefit from a tailored and personalised approach to revision. There is no ‘one-size-fits-all’ magic rabbit foot for passing exams. There are, however, a range of techniques that have been proven to assist in increasing focused attention, understanding and recall. We encourage students to experiment with a variety of these techniques so they might develop an approach that works for them. A good time for trying out different revision methods is in the lead up to the mock exams. Help them to analyse which techniques work for them, so that when they are revising for their main exams – they know how to revise in a confident and effective manner.
Discuss revision with your child and encourage them to discuss it with their friends and siblings. Encourage your child to attend any additional revision sessions organised by the school; these will be focused on the key topics that will come up in the exam. Your child will also get the feeling that they’re not alone in this; all their friends are going through it too. Attend any parents’ evenings put on by the school. It’s useful to be reminded of things you might not have thought of or forgotten. Also, it’s a great time to hear from other parents and how they’re all experiencing similar issues or challenges.
We wish you all the best in supporting your child through the intensive and often stressful time leading up to exams. The act of you reading this text, infers that you have your child’s best interests in mind. I’m sure they will benefit massively from your help, support and encouragement.
Best,
Sander de Groot
Head of Training
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