New Student Orientation Resource Book
PLANNING YOUR BLUEPRINT
Planning your blueprint is a process. It may take several steps to get
it right.
Objectives
- Identify your long-term goal
- Identify the steps to achieve it
- Organize these steps
- Have a written plan for your continued learning
and to help you achieve your goal
Procedure
1. Think of the things you would like to achieve in
your life.
2. Write down your goals. Decide which ones are really
important to you and which one you want to achieve first. Write it at
the top of a piece of paper and at the top of your blueprint form.
3. Make a list of the things you need to achieve your
goal-special skills, education (eg, diploma, GED, college, etc) or training.
These things become your objectives. Objectives are short-term steps
or goals that you need to achieve to reach your main goal.
4. Put the objectives in the order you wish to achieve
them.
5. Look at each objective and try to think of any
problems you may need to solve to achieve it (eg, equipment or supplies,
transportation, financing child care, etc). Make a list of the problems.
6. Think about resources and ways to solve each problem.
Write the solution down next to your list of problems. Do not go on to
the next step until you have at least one solution for each problem .Try
to identify two solutions for each problem. Keep your multiple intelligence
strengths in mind.
7. Make a chart with three columns. In the first column
will be the list of objectives, the second column will contain the problems
for each objective and the third column will contain your solution for
each problem.
OBJECTIVE |
PROBLEMS |
SOLUTIONS |
| Obtain GED |
Child care |
Get family and friends
to take turns babysitting |
| Improve Reading and
Math Skills |
Child care costs |
Ask teacher or case
manager about free programs |
8. Thinking about your current skills and intelligence strengths,
determine the best way for you to proceed to achieve your first objective
9. Think about your objectives and about how long it
will take to complete each one. Do not put yourself under extra pressure.
Be sure to give yourself plenty of time to complete each objective. Decide
which objectives you can expect to complete in a year. Write the last
objective you will achieve in a year on the second line of your blueprint
form.
10. Think about the activities you can work on now that are related
to your goal. Write these on the blueprint form. If you haven't done
so, complete the multiple intelligence inventory. Write your strengths
on the blueprint form.
11. Think about your skills and write them on the blueprint form
too.
12. Look at your list of objectives and write down on your blueprint
form the things you still need to learn.
13. Write on the last line the things you need to do to achieve
your objectives. If there are many, write the major ones.
MY BLUEPRINT
My goal or goals:
________________________________________________________________________________
My goal for a year from now:
________________________________________________________________________________
Steps to my goal:
1) Things or subjects that I can work on to help me achieve my goals
are:
________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________
My intelligence strengths are:
________________________________________________________________________________
My skills are:
_________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________
2) The skills and things I need to learn to achieve
my goals are: _________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________
Things I need to do to achieve my goals are:
_________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________
Adapted from Gateway: Paths To Adult Learning, Phillip Morris Companies
Inc
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