Life Planning Booklet

Designed in response to the need to invest in youth career education, this workbook will support your students in exploring a range of concepts and models, to create a life plan guided by their vision, passions, values, and goals. This will support them in getting the most out of their education, and support them in making plans for the future to achieve everything they dream of.

Career education opportunities give young people a chance to develop skills and acquire knowledge necessary, by allowing them to create short term and long term goals, to allow them to be successful once they leave education in their chosen career path. Students display higher levels of engagement and motivation in their studies when they have a clear plan and future goals.

This project workbook breaks down the process in to small manageable steps; each section will have clear instructions to guide your students through the project. The workbook can also easily be tailored to suit your class, course and individual student's needs.

Included Topics/Worksheets:

• Growth Mindset (Explanation of concept, Two Application activities, Reflection Questions)
• Finding your Ikigai (Model description of concept, Opportunity to apply concept)
• TEDx Project (Opportunity for students to share their passions with each other and explore how their passions could guide their future goals and life plan)
• Vision Board (Opportunity for Student's to envision what they want their future to look like)
• My Personal Manifesto (Opportunity for student's to discuss their purpose, their priorities, and aims, as well as the values they embody, and how these reflect in their decisions)
• My Personal SWOT (Opportunity for students to reflect on their strengths and weakness, identify any opportunities of development to help improve these weaknesses and chance to prepare for any challenges they may face when reaching for their goals)
• What is your reason why? (Exploration of what inspires and motivates each student, what they are passionate about, their life purpose and the desired impact they aim to have)
• Setting Priorities (Gives Students the opportunity to determine which future goals are most important to them personally, which will help guide their goal setting)
• SMART Goals (Allows Students to set their own Smart Goals to support them in achieving their overall goals)
• Pyramid of Goals (Students will take a list of things they aim to do/achieve to prepare them for their future career, and arrange them within the pyramid model; with smaller tasks which can be achieved in the near future towards the bottom. Students can color in tasks once they are completed and once a level is complete, students should aim to move to the next)
• Learning from failure (Provides examples of famous failures to illustrate how failure can be overcome, and gives Student's the chance to interview someone who inspires them about their experiences and what they overcame to be where they are now)
• Letter to my Future self (Activity where students will be asked to write a motivational letter to their future self, for when they need some encouragement when facing future challenges)
• Bucket List (Opportunity for Student's to envision what they want to do and where they want to go in the future)

+ Various Essay Question Sheets

This project utilizes Progressivism, Constructivism, and Existentialism.