Aiming High Step 3

Aiming High: The ability to set clear, tangible goals and devise a robust route to achieving them.

Step 3: I work with pride when I am being successful

Outcomes

To achieve Step 3, learners will show that they recognise and take pride when they are successful.

In Step 2, the focus was on how learners can work with care and attention. The shift here is to think about success criteria as an important part of being able to recognise when they have been successful, and then to take pride in their successes

Learners need to be able to:

Recognise when they have been successful
Share what they feel they have done well

Introduction

Being successful is about achieving something that you set out to achieve. This means that there are two parts of knowing if you’ve been successful:
- Being clear what it looks like to do something successfully
- Being able to see at the end whether you have done that or not
We can think of this as setting success criteria for ourselves – what do we need to do for us to have completed the task successfully.
For example, we might be in a competition. Our success criteria might be to reach the final and to improve on our score since the last time we entered.

Skill Starter

Steps for Success

Model an example of success criteria for practice or for a match. You may want to split this into 1 individual and 2 team success criteria.

Then ask learners to choose their own individual success criterion (5 minutes). If required, prepare options for learners to choose from.

Pause halfway through the activity to remind learners of the success criteria they are working towards.

15 mins

Group activity

Discussion

Teach & Apply

As well as recognising success, it is also important to celebrate it and to feel a sense of satisfaction.
An example of taking pride in achievements could be when a team scores a goal- they all celebrate together and share congratulations as a reward for their hard work.
If we know that we will feel good about achieving success, then we will be more willing to put in hard work to get that feeling later on.

Optional Activity

Celebration Calendar

At the start of a new league, course or tournament, involve learners in planning for success and how they will take pride in different milestones along the way. This can be led as a group discussion or ideas could be shared on sticky notes.

If required, share the different milestones or a range of celebration types to choose from for additional support. Make a visual record of the success criteria to refer to.

Remind learners to check in and lead the reflection on their progress towards these success criteria throughout.

20 mins

Group activity

Discussion

Written

Reflection & Assessment

Embed these strategies across your teaching and coaching to help learners apply what they’ve learnt.

Once success criteria are achieved, learners should be encouraged to take satisfaction in that success. Initially, this might include praise from the coach, but the primary focus should be on building their intrinsic motivation.

Use these ideas for ways of assessing this skill step to help you check learners’ understanding and confidence.

Check whether learners are able to create sensible success criteria for themselves.
Ask these reflective questions:
- How do you know when you are successful?
- What does it mean to take satisfaction in success?
- Why is that important?