A systematic Approach to Mastering life a fivestep

A systematic Approach to Mastering life – a fivestep Motivation method in upper secondary school

Motivation and life mastery Session 1 A fivestep motivation method Copyright: Gerd Martina Langeland, May Olaug Horverak and John Petter Fagerhaug 2 Illustrations by Jørgen Aurebekk

Purpose ► To support students to… ► Identify their own success factors, obstacles and solutions in life and in school ► Take responsibility for their own learning ► Take control of their own lives ► Experience selv-acknowledgement ► Develop increased self-efficacy (belief in one’s own abilities) To achieve this, we will use a fivestep motivation method developed in the project a Systematic Approach to Mastering life – a fivestep Motivation method Copyright: Gerd Martina Langeland, May Olaug Horverak and John Petter Fagerhaug 3

A fivestep motivation method Who is responsible for walking up the steps? Copyright: Gerd Martina Langeland, May Olaug Horverak and John Petter Fagerhaug 4

What does your «life stairs» look like? Copyright: Gerd Martina Langeland, May Olaug Horverak and John Petter Fagerhaug 5

Suksess factors and obstacles Discuss in the group: ► How do you experience that you master school and life in general now? What is easy and what may be difficult? The following three questions are then answered anonymously: 1. What do you want to achieve in life, and what is important to you? 2. Success factors: What is it about yourself and your life that is good? Can you use some of this to achieve what is important to you? 3. Obstacles: Is there something in yourself or your everyday that hinders you from achieving what is important to you? Copyright: Gerd Martina Langeland, May Olaug Horverak and John Petter Fagerhaug 6

Motivation and life mastery Session 2 A fivestep motivation method Copyright: Gerd Martina Langeland, May Olaug Horverak and John Petter Fagerhaug 7

Summary: Important, success factors and obstacles Copyright: Gerd Martina Langeland, May Olaug Horverak and John Petter Fagerhaug 8

The focus model ► Important ► Urgent ► Distracting ► Wasted Copyright: Gerd Martina Langeland, May Olaug Horverak and John Petter Fagerhaug 9

Action plan 4. What do you want to focus on the next few weeks? 5. What specifically can you do to carry t his out? Copyright: Gerd Martina Langeland, May Olaug Horverak and John Petter Fagerhaug 10

Motivation and life mastery Session 3 A fivestep motivation method Copyright: Gerd Martina Langeland, May Olaug Horverak and John Petter Fagerhaug 11

Examples from action plans Copyright: Gerd Martina Langeland, May Olaug Horverak and John Petter Fagerhaug 12

Adjustment of action plans ► Film about the focus model: https: //video. uia. no/media/t/0_cc 47 l 83 h 4. What do you want to focus on the next few weeks? 5. What specifically can you do to carry this out? Copyright: Gerd Martina Langeland, May Olaug Horverak and John Petter Fagerhaug 13

Motivation and life mastery A fivestep motivation method Copyright: Gerd Martina Langeland, May Olaug Horverak and John Petter Fagerhaug 14

The fivestep method in subjects 1. What is important to learn in this subject, and why? 2. What are you good at in this subject? 3. What is difficult? 4. What do you want to focus on the next few weeks? 5. What specifically will you do to manage this? Copyright: Gerd Martina Langeland, May Olaug Horverak and John Petter Fagerhaug 15