Exploration Skills: Igniting Student Motivation

An excellent comprehensive training! Very practical and relevant - just my style.

- Pima Community College,
Tucson, AZ

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Register in Training Center Exploration Skills: Igniting Student Motivation
Exploration is the motivational foundation for planning. This workshop provides you with valuable resources and hands-on training focused on developing students' exploration skills. Learn how to enhance self-knowledge and awareness of emerging opportunities with activities that develop students' self-assessment and work/life research skills.

Each participant in the Exploration Skills Workshop receives an educator workbook containing lesson plans and black line masters for the student's workbook. The curriculum is designed to deliver specific outcomes that define a student who demonstrates exploration-oriented skills.

Workshop Outcomes:

  • Understand the ExplorePlanAchieve method for student planning and self-management
  • Identify 10 different personal motivations
  • Use personal motivations to discover interesting work and life activities
  • Use the lesson activities to teach exploration skills to individuals, small groups or classrooms
  • Define key ‘next steps' for introducing planning and self-management training in your school

Workshop Agenda:
  • Introduction - overview of the day's activities, meet other workshop participants
  • Explore Plan Achieve - a 30-minute overview of this planning and self-management method
  • Motivations: Interests - hands-on experience with Lesson 1 of the exploration unit
  • Motivations: Values - hands-on experience with Lessons 2 and 3 of the exploration unit
  • Work/Life Research - hands-on experience with Lessons 4, 5 and 6 of the exploration unit
  • Teaching Exploration Skills - a review of the outcomes, activities and evaluation process
  • Next Steps - implementation planning for integration of exploration activities in your school
  • Evaluation/Reflection - teaching educators to create personal meaning from learning activities
  • Summary - a review of workshop outcomes, final comments

Workshop Flyer
PDF formatPDF - 290 KB - 2 pages

Sample Lesson Plans
PDF formatPDF - 1,092 KB - 8 pages

For more information contact Bridges' National Training Coordinator or call 1-800-281-1168.