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Stepping Stones is a six week course giving support, guidance and practical tools, helping students towards the next steps needed to achieve more focused learning with a confident and happy outlook. In our leader’s pack and with our training, you will find a step-by-step guide for delivering Stepping Stones. It has been designed with youth practitioners in mind to enable you the flexibility to deliver the course using your existing skills, your resources, your young people, in your context.

Course Outcomes

Young people will have:

  • encouraged one another and taken part in group learning to build their confidence.
  • begun to develop a way of evaluating a situation they face.
  • worked as a team to begin to overcome obstacles they face.
  • begun to develop the skill of critical thinking so they are empowered to make different choices.
  • developed and used a practical tool kit.

Measuring Outcomes

Young people will:

  • complete a pre-evaluation form to assess where they are at the start of the course.
  • set their own outcomes and expectations at the start of the course to gain a personal sense of achievement.
  • do a post evaluation form to measure how the course has impacted them.
  • reflect on their own pre-course expectations, to see their progress and achievements.

Sessions

1

Building

Working as a group to build confidence and resilience, using peer learning, team games and reflection.
2

Foundations

Giving the Young People the tools to explore who they are, what they are good at and hopes to set a foundation to help them to begin to believe they are good enough and can succeed.
3

Obstacles

Looking at the obstacles they face and together using team games, scenarios and critical thinking to come up with solutions that they can try.
4

Small Steps

Reviewing the goals they set and the progress made, and together looking at the small steps which can be made to move a little further forward.
5

Support for Success

Identifying their personal support system and looking at how they can use it successfully. They will also be sign posted to a wider support system, both helping them to grow and achieve.
6

Next Steps

Reflection on the tools that have been used over the last few weeks to make a realistic supported plan to move forward.