Lesson Plan
Unlocking Your Inner Drive Lesson Plan
Help a middle school student build internal motivation by exploring personal goals, understanding effort, and enhancing resilience.
This lesson empowers a student with a trauma history and complex family dynamics to view education as personally valuable and builds self-drive necessary for academic success.
Audience
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Approach
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Prep
Lesson Preparation
1 hour (total)
Step 1
Session 1: Introduction & Goals
30 minutes
Step 2
Session 2: Value of Effort
30 minutes
Step 3
Session 3: Understanding Personal Strengths
30 minutes
Step 4
Session 4: Resilience Building
30 minutes
Step 5
Session 5: Motivation Quest & Wrap-Up
30 minutes
Slide Deck
Finding Your Spark
What Drives You?
Identify Your Strengths
Set Your Goals
Celebrate Your Journey!
Worksheet
Reading
Activity
Game
