FUTURE SELF-PROJECT Beginning Social Communication Middle School: Lesson Five

OBJECTIVE: Students will express their future goals and dreams by reflecting on their current interests talents and values. Students will learn about others through listening and observing the supporting visuals.

SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING STANDARDS Identify one’s likes and dislikes, needs and wants, strengths and challenges. Describe personal skills and interests that one wants to develop.. Recognize that others may experience situations differently from oneself.

SCERTS KEY SKILLS Understands and Monitors the Attentional focus of Self and Others Engages in reciprocal interaction: sharing intentions, emotions, interests.

EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICES: Visual support (VS): Any visual display that supports the learner engaging in a desired behavior or skills independent of prompts. Examples of visual supports include pictures, written words, objects within the environment, arrangement of the environment or visual boundaries, schedules, maps, labels, organization systems, and timelines. Cognitive behavioral intervention (CBI): Instruction on management or control of cognitive processes that lead to changes in overt behavior.

CALIFORNIA COMMON CORE STANDARDS:  Reading Standard for Informational text; RI 7, Grade 6: Integrate information presented in different media or formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively) as well as in words to develop a coherent understanding of a topic or issue  Speaking Listening Standard; SL 2, Grade 6: Interpret information presented in diverse media and formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively, orally) and explain how it contributes to a topic, text, or issue under study.

TASK ONE: Brainstorm your future goals, using a thinking map or graphic organizer. Think about things like: Where will you attend High School and college? What kinds of things would you like to study or know more about? Where would you like to travel? What kinds of jobs or careers would you like to have? Where would you like to live? What would your house or dwelling look like? What kinds of things would you like to have? How much money do you want to earn?

TASK TWO: Once you have completed your graphic organizer, you need to research the information you have documented to gather more details and images of what those things look like. Your images can be photographs or images found through internet searches. Keep all your images in a file under your name for access and organizational purposes. Take the time to research and find images that truly reflect your persona/ personality This project is about you…The images should really speak to what you like.

TASK THREE: Create a power-point, video/ i-movie, or poster that organizes all your information into a cohesive story that reflects your future self. The power-point, video/ i-movie, or poster requirements: Your name and current grade and school of attendance Short-term goals and current interests (brief descriptions and lots of images) Long-term goals ( brief descriptions and supporting images) Places you would like to like and travel (Brief explanations and supporting images) Things you would like to own (brief explanations and supporting images) What you see yourself doing in twenty years (images and reasons why)

TASK FOUR: Pre-Presentation: Before you present, make sure your slides, video/ i-movie or poster is organized the way you want to present it. You should know how to pronounce all the words in any text you include. You should practice and rehearse to become so familiar with the information that you are comfortable talking about it to everyone. When you rehearse the presentation, pay attention where your body is in respect to the audience and your projected document Make sure you practice projecting your voice so that everyone can hear you.

TASK FIVE: Present your project to the group. Remember this project is about you, you are the expert!!! The audience will be allowed to ask questions or make comments after each presentation. Questions should be for clarification, and comments should be positive in nature.

EVALUATION: COUNCIL Questions: What was the most enjoyable part of this project for you? WHY? Which part was most difficult for you to complete? WHY? Is it easy or hard to think of yourself as getting older and growing up? WHY?..WHY NOT? What is one thing you enjoyed learning about another student? WHY? What is one part of someone else’s presentation you really liked? WHY?