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Unit 4: How Do I Get Where I Want To Go?
Section 2: Making Good Plans |
Section 3: Using Good Tools and Strategies | Unit Summary
SECTION 2: MAKING GOOD PLANS
Links, p.183: Overcoming Barriers
Links, p.187: Goal-Setting and
Planning
Links, p.189: Ontario Secondary
School Graduation Requirements
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Overcoming Barriers |
Activity:
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Identify a barrier and list ways to overcome it
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It's not always going to be easy to achieve your goals. In building your
career, you are bound to come upon stumbling blocks along the way—some
of the pieces to your puzzle may not fit without some adjustments and effort
from you. There are many books that deal with overcoming barriers, one well-known
one being, "The Aladdin Factor," by Jack Canfield and Mark Victor. There
are also a number of resources on the web for more information on how to
overcome barriers in your career path.
In this activity, you will consider how to overcome one of the possible
barriers you might have to face in your career path.
- Make a list of the kind of barriers you might encounter on your career
path. Select one barrier from the list, and make some point form notes
on ways to overcome it.
- Visit the Ontario Ministry of Education's Career Gateway: Student
Skills and Resources site and follow the links that are appropriate
for the barriers you have identified. Add the strategies and/or the
names of organizations that can help you overcome your barriers to the
list you began in 1. above.
- Visit the website below for information on The
Aladdin Factor, and add this book to the bibliography you completed
in Unit 1. Make a note beside the text that explains what kind of barriers
are discussed in this book.
You may also want to listen to the authors describe the main purpose
of the book by playing an audio
clip.
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Goal-Setting and Planning |
Activity:
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Ways to get where you want to go
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You've probably realized by this point that goal-setting and planning are
essential to ensure you get where you want to go. Learning to set goals
and plan for your future is important-having these skills will help you
manage your career, as well as provide you with excellent transferable skills
which will help you in many areas of your career.
In this activity, you will explore some goal-setting and planning scenarios,
and apply them to your own career. You've already had some experience
in the idea of goal-setting and planning in the text. Here's your chance
to see how some scenarios might help you make better sense of it all.
- Visit motive8,
a site designed to help people make a smooth school-to-work transition.
Review your goals and plans in light of what you learn at this site.
- Record three goal-setting or planning tips that you felt were most
useful.
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Ontario Secondary School
Graduation Requirements |
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Activity:
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Planing for success in high school
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One way to ensure that you don't get where you want to go is to ignore your
high school graduation requirements. Some students go through high school
without a thought as to whether they are obtaining the requirements necessary
to graduate. To make sure you don't fall into that trap, visit the links
below to ensure that you'll be accepting your diploma along with the rest
of your peers.
Ontario Ministry of Education: Ontario
Secondary Schools Grades 9 to 12: Program and Diploma Requirements 1999
Ontario Ministry of Education: Stepping
Up! Your Guide to Ontario's New Standards for High School
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