The focus of this unit is on the development of the integral skill of Personal Effectiveness.
Personal Effectiveness
When you display personal effectiveness you engage a blend of learning behaviours.
You …
- understand yourself as a person and as a learner
- know what is, and is not, important and of value
- make enterprising use of the people, strategies and things available
- engage positively and constructively with others
- behave in ways that contribute to the greater good
- control your own destiny
The activities, think pieces and questions in this online unit aim to help you to make a start on:
- introducing students to the key behaviours of learners who exhibit personal effectiveness ;
- using the language of personal effectiveness with students;
- designing the use of personal effectiveness skills into the way you teach;
- developing the confidence and skill in helping students to grow their personal effectiveness.
The following sections will help you to tailor your classroom practice to support the development of these dispositions.
- Section 1 explores the learning behaviours of learners who exhibit personal effectiveness
- Section 2 discusses the classroom culture that supports the development of personal effectiveness
- Section 3 offers ideas to practise in your own classroom
- Section 4 contains some suggestions about how you might talk to encourage personal effectiveness
- Section 5 makes suggestions to move practice on.
About ‘Helping learners to access Successful Futures’ – a reminder
This is one of 12 units in the suite ‘Helping learners to access Successful Futures’. The units address the 4 purposes of the Successful Futures curriculum and the 4 integral skills for modern life and work, and set these requirements into 4 aspects of a learning-friendly classroom culture within which they can thrive.
The 4 purposes of the curriculum as defined in Successful Futures are that young people should develop as:
- Ambitious, capable learners;
- Enterprising, creative contributors;
- Healthy, confident individuals;
- Ethical, informed citizens.
The 4 integral skills necessary for modern life and work are defined as:
- critical thinking and problem solving
- planning and organising
- creativity and innovation
- personal effectiveness – this unit
The 4 aspects of classroom culture within which these core purposes and wider skills can develop and thrive are:
- Classroom learning relationships;
- Classroom talk for learning;
- How learning is constructed;
- How learning is celebrated and grown.
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