Enhanced Child Guidance Skills for Teachers: Teaching Students How to Turn an Unfocused Dream Into a Goal-Oriented Dream
All children have dreams of a better and more optimistic future, including low-achieving students and children with recurrent behavior problems. Dreams connect children with their ideal selves (what they want to be) and with their possible selves (what they can become). Dreams tell children where they want to go, but without telling how to get there . Is up to the dreamer to figure out which path to follow to “get there.” To produce the effect wanted, high-efficacious students already understand that they need to follow a path with a specific course of action or procedure. Low-efficacious students may share similar dreams, but lacking understanding of how to get a positive outcome, the dreamer follows what is perceived to be the easiest route, and he quickly changes path when the road starts feeling bumpy. All children have dreams of a better and more optimistic future; the difference between a high-efficacious student and a low-efficacious student is not in the dream, but in the di...
