SESSION 1 -SELF-MANAGEMENT

The students will be able to:

• Explain self-management principles

• Understand the importance of self-management

• Managing one’s emotions

• Identify and use stress management strategies

• Exhibiting self-discipline and self-motivation

• Setting personal and collective goals

• Use planning and organizational skills

• Showing the courage to take initiative

• Demonstrating personal and collective agency

• Understand critically different strategies to improve self-management.

TITLES & CONTENT

What is self-management

Self-management in school

Examples of real-life situations

TEACHING/LEARNING PROCESS

Situation: The students watch a digital story about a group of students at a party where they have to choose between three meal menus before playing outside. 

Option 1:

- fish fingers with rice

- juice 

- sweet dessert

Option 2:

- Soup

- Grilled steak with rice and salad

- water

- Fruit

Option 3:

- Hamburger with egg and chips

- juice 

- sweet dessert

Introduction:

Introduce the self-management concept. 

Present the story: Each student will choose a meal menu for themselves and be divided into 3 groups (depending on the selected menu). Then the consequences of each menu choice will be shown.

Decomposition:

Class discussion - Leading students to decompose the problem through questions as:

What happened with the three friends?

Why do you think it happened?

Who chose the better option?

Abstraction:

Worksheet 1 - Students will be required to complete the “What happens if…” activity. According to their answer, they will identify the consequences of the chosen menu. 

Pattern Recognition:

Examples of Real-Life Experiences - Students will be asked to share a similar experience. The similarities and differences will be indicated and discussed. 

Algorithmic Thinking:

Worksheet 2 - Students will be required to complete a worksheet to explain how they will act in a similar situation, step by step.

Closure:

Class Discussion - Students will have an opportunity to discuss their decisions regarding the digital story they watched. They will speak about self-management's importance.

ASSESSMENT TECHNIQUES