Planning for the Future Vocabulary

Flashcards for vocabulary review based on the provided lecture notes.

This module helps you to:

Planning your first year out of school, submitting applications for tertiary education, consolidating your career portfolio, understanding the pros and cons of a gap year.

Planning Next Year

Helps you to start getting organized and work towards your goal for the following year.

Curriculum covered in Module 1.

Commitment to a decision taken, strategies to achieve goals, refinement of portfolio of plans, admission requirements, employment opportunities, letters of application.

Mission Statement

A tool designed to inspire you and to consolidate your life goals and purpose.

Personal Mission Statement:

Provides clarity and gives you a sense of purpose. It defines who you are and how you will live.

Mission

Answers the questions 'what' and 'how' a company exists.

Vision

Answers the larger question of 'why' a company exists.

Critical success factors

Those areas in your life that you really need to prioritize in order to achieve your personal mission

Personal Brand:

Your reputation when you are not in the room; much of this is created online.

Personal Manifesto

A declaration of your core values and beliefs, what you stand for, and how you intend to live your life. It functions both as a statement of principles and as a call to action.

Elevator Pitch

A couple of short statements explain who you are, what you do, and what you want to achieve in a very succinct manner.

To planning next year a step-by-step guide

Thoroughly research your decision, keep your options open, use an action plan to assist each step.

Step 1 Application:

Compiling and submitting your application to a tertiary education institution or a gap year job/program.

Step 2 Finances:

Ensuring that you have a plan in place to fund the cost of what you would like to do next year.

Step 3 Accommodation

Planning where you intend to live next year.

Step 4 Organizing the details:

Organizing travel arrangements and visa applications, getting your driver's license, and learning practical life skills necessary for independence.

University Admission Requirements

Each tertiary institution has its own admission requirements regarding school leaving certificate, APS requirements, matric subjects, and NBTs, subject to change on an annual basis.

APS Calculation

Universities calculate their APSs from exam results. The degree or diploma of your choice will have a minimum APS requirement.

National Benchmark Tests (NBTs)

Measure a student's ability to respond to and cope with the entry-level academic literacy, quantitative literacy and mathematics demands they will face in their university studies.

International Requirements

Involves checking the school-leaving certificate, funding, visa, medical insurance, studies applicability, admission tests, and personal essay.

Helping others with Feenix

Started during the #FeesMustFall campaign, Feenix is an online fundraising platform.

This Module Helps You To:

Balance academic, leadership, and social demands, plan your first year out of school, submit your applications for tertiary education, consolidate your career portfolio, understand the pros and cons of a gap year.

This Module Helps You To:

Manage stress, Communicate effectively, Develop your interpersonal skills, Effectively cope with change, Manage your transition between high school and next year.

Development of the self in society

Life skills required to adapt to change, ongoing healthy lifestyle choices, stressors, change and quality of life.

Development of the self in society

Adapting to growth and change, transition between school and post-school destination, lifestyle plan to promote quality of life.

Study skills

Revise own study skills, strategies and styles, examination writing skills, Importance of obtaining the NSC, study plan for Grade 12.

Cognitive diversity:

The inclusion of people who have different ways of thinking, different viewpoints and different skill sets in a team.

Cognitive dissonance

Refers to the mental conflict that occurs when your beliefs or assumptions are contradicted by new information.

Conflict resolution:

Peacefully finding a solution to a conflict situation

Intrapersonal and interpersonal conflict:

Refers to inner conflict with respect to your own thoughts, values, actions and beliefs; and to disagreement between two or more people

Emotional intelligence (EQ)

Refers to our ability to identify, assess and manage our own emotions and understand the emotions of others.

stressor

An external stimulus, agent, threat or event that makes one anxious

stress response

The response to the stressor

POSITIVE STRESS (EUSTRESS)

A manageable level of stress is actually a positive thing. It serves as a motivating force in driving us to achieve what we need to, and pushes us to excel.

NEGATIVE STRESS (DISTRESS OR AVERSIVE STRESS)

Has a negative impact upon our health and relationships.

Chronic stress:

Causes rapid heart rate, raised blood pressure, a poor immune system and the inability to differentiate between physical and psychological stress.

Burnout

A syndrome conceptualised as resulting from chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed.

AlloStatic Load

When chronic stress, also over time, you body release stress hormones, and must continually adjust in order to maintain physiological stability

AlloStatic Overload

Wear and tear on the body and brain as a result of being continually stressed over time.

Mental health

A state of well-being in which an individual realizes his or her own abilities, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively, and is able to make a contribution to his or her community.

Stigma and mental disorder

Harmful effects, reluctance to seek help or treatment and lower likelihood of maintaining treatment and social isolation

Mental disorder:

Any condition characterised by cognitive and emotional disturbances, abnormal behaviours, impaired functioning or any combination of these.

Depressive disorder (depression)

Characterised by persistent sadness and a lack of interest or pleasure in previously rewarding or enjoyable activities.

Effective communication

Expressing your own feelings, beliefs and perspectives clearly.

Technology communication advantages

Communicating faster and to a wider audience, it is safe and reliable and saves you money

Technology communication disadvantages

That means being distracted, lost of internet, and causing misunderstandings and miscommunications

Verbal vs nom-verbal communication

That means to express it in words, or sounds with non-verbal cues.

change management

A structured approach for ensuring that changes are thoroughly and smoothly implemented that benefits everyone.

5 Phases involved in change management

Having these phases 1. Knowledge, 2. Persuasion, 3. Decision 4. Implementation 5. The Confirmation

FORCE FIELD ANALYSIS

is a tool that can be used to analyse whether a change should be implemented or not.

Focus and concentration (managing distractions)

Lose productivity, efficiency and compromission by doing more than one thing at one given time

Answering complex exam questions

Used to answer questions by preparing a good revision

Discursive essay

investigate a topic by gathering and evaluating evidence