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www.gi%ed.uconn.edu
The National Research Center on
the Gifted and Talented
Watson College of Education
Angela Housand, Ph.D.
housanda@uncw.edu
This Week I Have the Honor…
Self-Mentoring
You are your own best mentor!
TM
Self-MentoringTM
Dr. Marsha Carr
• Department of Educational Leadership at UNCW
• Superintendent of Schools in WV for 10Years
• Principal
• Director of Curriculum
• Reading Specialist
• Colleague and Friend
Self-MentoringTM
Dr. Marsha Carr
Learning about yourself in
relation to a given organization
through a process of data
collection and critical reflection.
Self-MentoringTM
Dr. Marsha Carr
1. Self-Awareness
2. Self-Development
3. Self-Reflection
4. Self-Monitoring
4 Stage Process
Self-MentoringTM
Dr. Marsha Carr
1. Identify Expectations
2. Prioritize
3. Determine Strategies
4. Implement Strategies
8 Steps
5. Collect Data
6. Network
7. Reflect
8. Monitor
Self-MentoringTM
A replacement for regular
mentoring models?
Self-MentoringTM
A replacement for regular
mentoring models?
NO
Grow by Design or Live a Life by Default
Future
Casting...
© Angela Housand, 2013
Future
Casting...
A Program for
Adolescents andYoung
Adults
FutureCasting...
© Angela Housand, 2013
Who are you?
Control the Message
Casting Call
Action
Social Capital
FutureCasting...
© Angela Housand, 2013
Connecting WhoYou Are
Today
With WhoYou Will Be
Tomorrow
FutureCasting...
© Angela Housand, 2013
3 Ring Conception of Giftedness
Pew Research Center, 2010
3376
Engineer Serendipity
Achieving
YOUR Destiny
Plan a Preferred Future
• Specific and measurable
• Balanced
Plan a Preferred Future
• Specific and measurable
• Balanced
Personal and “Professional”
for truly
Integrated Success
Achieving
YOUR Destiny
Plan a Preferred Future
• Pragmatic
• Physically possible
• Consideration of limitations and
resources
Achieving
YOUR Destiny
Plan a Preferred Future
• Exploit available opportunities
• Create filters to prevent wasting time
and maintain focus
Achieving
YOUR Destiny
Decide the WHO not WHAT
• Focuses on core competencies &
satisfactions
• Allows you to define what to do and
resources you need
Achieving
YOUR Destiny
Decide the WHO not WHAT
• ALSO, what NOT to do
• Allows you to focus efforts, time, &
energy
Achieving
YOUR Destiny
Be HONEST with yourself
• Do not believe your own
rationalizations
• Consider your environment
• Consider your available resources
Achieving
YOUR Destiny
Ignore the Naysayers
• Constructive criticism is good --
Embrace it!
• Outside perspectives that are baseless
conjecture or laden with emotional
projection is destructive for achievers
Achieving
YOUR Destiny
Don’t Settle for Mediocrity
• Push the limits of your potential
• Outside perspectives that are baseless
conjecture or laden with emotional
projection is destructive for achievers
Achieving
YOUR Destiny
Dream BIG and dare to FAIL.
Don’t Settle for Mediocrity
• Don’t be left wondering if you could
have done more...
Achieving
YOUR Destiny
WHO AREYOU?
Did you know you have multiple identities?
Volume
The amount of information there is about
you on the internet
Relevancy
The usefulness of the information that exists
about you and how consistent that
information is with you you say you are and
what you claim to value
Purity
The amount of information that comes up in
an Internet search that is about you and not
someone with a similar name or similar
interests
Diversity
The mixture of information found when you
are searched online:
• Do you have a website?
• Are you found in real time content?
• Are there images and video of you?
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Online ID
Ask them...
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Interest Inventory
Explore
www.skillcow.com
http://careerservices.rutgers.edu/PCCPinterests.shtml
https://diy.org/
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Remember the Future
What is
YOUR
definition of
success?
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Who am I?
HERO
Future Self
Future Self
• Research shows that people
think of their current selves and
future selves as different people.
(Pronin & Ross, 2006; Wakslak et al., 2008)
Future Self
• Limited ability to imagine one’s
future self leads to opting for
immediate gratification.
(van Gelder, Hershfield, & Nordgren, 2013)
Seeking
Immediate Gratification
• Future consequences are not considered
• Respond reflexively rather than
intentionally and with control
• Negatively related to “joy” and “happiness”
• Living in the “here and now” is one
of the strongest correlates of
delinquent behavior.
• People with a “here and now”
orientation respond to tangible
stimuli and are unable to defer
gratification.
Future Self
(Gottfredson & Hirshchi, 1990; Pratt & Cullen, 2000)
(Nagin & Pogarsky, 2003)
in20years.com
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Who AreYour Heroes?
CreativeVisualization
A process of visualizing specific
behaviors or events occurring in
one’s life.
Assumes students’ have
experience with creative thinking
and creative problem solving.
CreativeVisualization
• What do you see?
• What do you feel?
• What do you hear?
• What does it smell like?
Visualize
Yourself
in the
Future
CreativeVisualization
The best time to plant a
tree was 20 years ago.
The second best time is now.
Chinese Proverb
CreativeVisualization
NOT JUST ONE TIME!
Once the schema is clear, the
visualization can be repeated to
support continuation toward goal
attainment.
• Tied to Student’s
Identity
• Personally
Interesting
• Integral to the
Student’s Vision of
the future
• Viewed as Useful
(Eccles & Wigfield)
Personally Meaningful
AreYour
Efforts
Driven by
Your
Passions?
• If you could do anything for 8
hours a day for the rest of your
life, and money were no object,
what would you do?
• Am I excited to do what I’m
doing every day? If not, is it me or
something else?
AskYourself
Control the Message
Control the Message
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The Press Release
Why Control the
Message?
• College Admissions Officers & Committees
will search you
• Potential Employers will search you
• Friends (& non-friends) will search you
• Your Competition will search you
• Potential Boyfriend/Girlfriend will search you
How To
Control the Message
• Find Out What’s on the Web
• Clean Up Content thatYou Don’t Want
Everyone in the World to See
• Create a More Flattering Image Online
• With quotes around your name, search
yourself on Google,Yahoo!, and Bing
• What did you find?
Search Yourself
Search Yourself
You want to find:
• Favorable entries about your work
• Flattering or neutral mentions of your
personal life
Set Up Alerts!
google.com/alerts
Start with what you have posted:
• Delete any negative comments you’ve made
• Delete inappropriate photos or videos
• Check all sites!
• Edit blog entries that are negative
Remove Unflattering
Content
You Can Start Fresh Too:
• Delete all of your accounts
• Create new ones with a unique name for
yourself
• Use your middle initial
• Use your nickname
• Remember...Nothing really ever goes away.
Remove Unflattering
Content
Remove Unflattering
Content
• Ask others to remove negative
content about you.
• Remove “tags” from photos
• Paid services:
reputation.com
internetreputation.com
Reset Privacy Settings:
• Block groups or individuals from viewing
content that you would prefer to be
private
• Manage our groups regularly and
remove unsupportive members
Remove Unflattering
Content
• Avoid overly prolific status updates
• Claim your domain name
GoDaddy.com
• Create a More Flattering Image Online
Other Message
Management Tips
The BEST Way To
Control the Message
Create Favorable Content
• Set up a linkedin.com profile that is public
• Get people to “endorse” you professionally
• Update profiles regularly
• Blog on a topic of interest
• Contribute in positive ways to the online
community - and do so often!
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The Ideal Day...
ACTION !!!
The Hero of Your
Own Story
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Effective Goal Setting:
More Than SMART
Prioritized
Reviewed Periodically
Revised as Needed
Accountable to Others
Effective Goal Setting:
More Than SMART
Periodically review
goals and modify to
reflect changing
priorities and
experiences.
Effective Goal Setting:
More Than SMART
Share your goals and
engage with successful,
motivated people who
also set goals.
Avoid Unrealistic Goals
 Insufficient Information
 Goals Set by Other People
 Always Expecting Best
The greater danger for most
of us lies not in setting our
aim too high and falling short;
but in setting our aim too low,
and achieving our mark.
-Michelangelo
Privacy &
Security
Categorize for
different types of
goals.
What steps will I
take to achieve my
goal?
Accountability:
Share
Reminders
Monitor
Progress
Reflect &
Evaluate
Goal attainment
is not luck,
Goal attainment
is not luck,
it takes time and
requires effort.
Cyclical
&
Ongoing
Social
Capital
Past Generations
Halligan (opinion), 2013
Millennials
Halligan (opinion), 2013
Past Generations
Halligan (opinion), 2013
Past Generations
Halligan (opinion), 2013
Millennials
Halligan (opinion), 2013
Halligan (opinion), 2013
Futurecasting
Futurecasting
Futurecasting

Futurecasting