CTry Motivation and Visioning

Motivation and Visioning Intervention 

Dr Jannie van Hees, Michele, and I have been meeting to work on the content for our motivational workshop with the students. The school has also agreed for them to help in running the workshop. We were hoping that we would be able to do it during this term 3, but circumstances have not allowed us to do that. So we decided that early in term 4 would be the best time to do it. We set it for October 2019.

We have agreed to call the workshop 'Visioning My Future'. It aims to provide motivation, confidence, and vision for our students, including my inquiry group. It hopes to enable the children to embrace who they are before they came to New Zealand and who they are now, to make good use of the opportunities they now have, and be visionary and create a future for them now. These four main elements will be the focus.:

i) The 'ME' before New Zealand. The children should value their families, friends, culture, language, who they are before coming to NZ. They are important part of their lives and wellbeing.

ii) Initial stage of arrival to New Zealand. The focus is on the 'storming' time before and when arriving New Zealand - their feelings of excitement, scary, worry, homesick, having opportunities, anxiety and how normal those feelings are when coming to a new country.

iii) My Circumstances now. What do they need to map out in the experiences they have in New Zealand now and to make use of them for their own benefit. Previous ESOL students are invited to share their experiences with the students.

iv) Future Thinking and Dreams. The children are given an opportunity to think about what they want to be in the future. What kinds of pathways are there for them and how they can locate what they are passionate to do in the future.

'What now' at the end tries to tie up everything. Talking together - there is a way - together we can. Key messages are given: 

• All feelings are okay - they are what they are. It's how we respond and handle feelings that matter

• There is always a solution

• A problem is only a problem if you make it s

• Brain science - what you focus on on - thinking of achievement in terms of 'not yet' and adopting a growth mindset , not a fixed mindset

Growth mindset is to be emphasised continually to ensure that students are always in the thinking and mindset to grow.

Click link to see overview of the workshop.

The students will be released from classes to attend the workshop. It will cover four periods, from period 1 to lunch on Wenesday 16 of October. We agreed to limit it to only 20 students from my ESOL tutor group, only year 9, 10, and 11 classes. Year 10 is my inquiry group.    

We decided to design a special invitation flyer and invite students individually.