Personal Learning Plan

1. Personal Learning Plan Overview, Values and Goals

2. Learning Requirements* In this subject, students are expected to: • Know and understand the five capabilities • Identify, explore, and develop personal and learning goals, and strategies to achieve them • Select and develop at least onecapability relevant to achieving their goals • Reflect on their learning. * PLP Subject Outline, SACE Web Site (http://www.sace.sa.edu.au/web/personal-learning-plan/)

3. Personal Learning Plan Process Start Here End Here

4. The Five Capabilities Know and understand the five capabilities that are central to the students’ learning. • Communication • Citizenship • Personal Development • Work • Learning

5. Personal and Learning Goals Identify, explore, and develop personal and learning goals, and strategies to achieve them by: • Selecting subjects and learning for pathways through and beyond school • Investigating possible career choices • Exploring personal and learning goals

6. Values and Goals • Stephen Covey** claims that, for any journey, you need to “begin with the end in mind.” • Values help you decide the destination – “the end” of your journey. They are your compass. • Goals describe both your destination, and also the path that you intend taking to get there. They are your road map and travel guide. ** 7 Habits of Highly Successful People, Stephen Covey, Simon & Schuster, 1989

7. Values Values are: • Your heart's deepest desires for how you want to behave as a human being. • Not about what you want to get or achieve; they are about how you want to behave or act on an ongoing basis. • A personal choice. There are no “right” or “wrong” values. You do not need to justify the values that you hold.

8. Values Exercise • For each of the values described on the list provided, choose whether (for you) it is: • Very important • Quite important • Not so important • Select the six values that are most important to you • Write down those six values in one place. Although not necessary, it may be useful to rank those six values in order of importance

9. Goals or Dreams? “You got to have a dream, If you don’t have a dream, How you gonna have a dream come true?” (Lyrics to Happy Talk, from South Pacific by Rogers and Hammerstein) So what is the difference between a goal and a dream?

10. Goals Should Be: S Specific M Meaningful A Adaptable R Realistic T Time-Framed S Specific M Measurable A Achievable R Realistic T Timely

11. Some Points About Goals • Your entire voyage and destination cannot be described by a single goal • Goals are often grouped by their time frame: • Short-term goals – 1 year • Medium-term goals – 5 years • Long-term goals – 10 years and beyond • Goals should be reviewed regularly • It is okay to change a goal • To achieve a goal, you will need strategies

12. Some Points About Strategies • Just like goals, strategies should be SMART • For each goal, you will require at least one strategy • It is good to have alternative strategies planned in case your preferred strategy does not work • Strategies should be reviewed regularly • It is okay to change a strategies

13. Goal / Strategy Setting Exercise • Write some SMART goals about something that you wish to achieve: • before the start of Year 11 (possibly related to PLP and the one capability that you wish to explore and develop) • by the end of Year 12 (possibly related to SACE results & admission to tertiary/vocational studies) • by the end of your fifth year out of school(shortly after the start of / early in your career) • Now develop some SMART strategies for each goal

14. Resources • Enter the words “smartgoals” into an Internet search engine • http://mindtools.com/pages/main/newMN_HTE.htm#goal • http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newTED_85.htmhttp://www.values.com/teaching-values • http://www.ethics.org/resource/definitions-values