Helping BTE Youth Plan for the Future BTE Ambassador Training: Session III

1. Helping BTE Youth Plan for the Future BTE Ambassador Training: Session III

2. Session Goals & Objectives • Explore goal setting strategies • Review resources for helping young people explore their college and career options • Offer tips and strategies for coaching students as they prepare for college and to enter the workforce • Extend knowledge and techniques for working with youth

3. Session Agenda • Warm-Up Activity: Dream Vacation • Learning Activity: Life Mapping • Content Presentation: Goal Setting • SMART • Action Plan • Learning Activity: My Action Plan • Content Presentation: College & Career Planning • Ambassador Resources • Closing

4. Ground Rules • Refrain from checking your electronic devices for emails or messages • Turn off or silence cell phones/pagers; if you must take a call, step out of the room • Be open to ideas and opinions • Be willing to ask questions • Observe and practice confidentiality of discussion that warrant it • Keep an open mind-avoid judging others • React to the information: address the idea, not the person • Have fun

5. Dream Vacation • Warm-Up Activity

6. Employability Skills • Life Mapping • A Life Map is a visual representation of a person’s life. • A Life Map answers the questions: • What have I accomplished? • What road did I travel? • What are my goals for the future?

7. William Shakespeare’s Life Map • Thank you!

8. Life Mapping • Learning Activity

9. Employability Skills • SMART Goals • A Goal is specific, measurable, and has time-targeted objective to be achieved in the future. • The acronym SMART is a way to remember the key components of an effective goal. • Specific – The goal should identify a specific action or event that will take place. • Measurable – The goal and its benefits should be quantifiable. • Achievable – The goal should be attainable given available resources. • Realistic – The goal should requires the individual to stretch his/her thinking, while maintaining some likelihood of success. • Timely – The goal should state the time period in which it will be accomplished. Individuals develop short-term goals (accomplished within in few days or months) or long-term goals (accomplished over a year or few years). The successful achievement of short-term goals often supports the attainment of long-term goals.

10. Employability Skills • Goal Setting • Goal Setting is a critical component of personal, academic, and professional development. • Successful goal setting involves the development of a SMART goal and an Action Plan for achieving the goal.

11. Employability Skills • Action Planning • An Action Plan outlines the steps and strategies needed to achieve the specific goals. An effective Action Plan: • Includes clearly defined SMART goals. • Lists the steps or strategies needed to achieve each goal. • Sets deadlines for when each strategy needs to be accomplished. • Uses a timeline or chart to monitor progress. • Considers possible challenges or barriers, and proactively brainstorms ways to deal with or address them.

12. My Action Plan • Learning Activity

13. Debrief & Discuss • How do you envision using this process with BTE students? • What can BTE Volunteers do to support this process?

14. Sample Ways to Initiate Goal Setting • Life Mapping • Visioning • Brainstorming • Discussions • Whatever works for the youth!

15. How Can BTE Ambassadors Help? • BTE Ambassadors can support youth throughout the goal setting process by: • Working with youth to identify their goals and develop an action plan • Providing support to youth if challenges/barriers arise • Keeping youth motivated • Holding youth accountable on progress towards reaching goals • Encouraging youth to revisit and revise their life Map and Action Plan, as needed

16. Higher Education Exploration Resources • College Planning Resources • College Visit Checklist • College Selection Checklist • Sample College Resume • Sample College Essays • Financial Aid and Financial Planning Resources • Career Exploration Resources • Employment & Career Planning Resources • Tips for Writing a Cover Letter • Sample Cover Letter Format • Sample High School Resume • Top Ten Tips for Finding Your Dream Internship • Job Interview Tips for Teens

17. Other Career Exploration Resources • BTE Student Activity Toolkit Tangible student activities or “lesson plans” that can be facilitated by local operating company representatives. The activities enable students to explore the broad spectrum of health careers and expose youth to core employability skills needed to succeed in the workplace. Go to: http://bridge2employment.org/student_activity_toolkit/index.html

18. Thank you!