Expectations Outcomes
| Learning Outcomes and Relevance. In summary the needs and concerns of today's youth form the foundation of The Seven Principles of RESPECTisms and their outcomes. The principles of RESPECTisms play a major relevance to their everyday lives cover many of the major challenges young people today face during their teenage years and into adulthood. EXPECTATIONS Learning Outcomes:
Relevance: Engaging with young people with low self-expectations and a restricted sense of what life can offer them is a challenge that most educators confront. Educators may teach that education is the key to young people determining the course of their own lives and moving towards self-fulfilment, but the message sometimes falls on stony ground. Visualizing one’s future self is not easy. Young people may take on parental expectations. This may smooth the way temporarily, but some discover later in life that they never wanted to be a business mogul, or a doctor, or whatever the imperative was. Others have little or no vision of their future selves and lives, or despair of achieving their dreams. Why try if failure seems pre-ordained? Motivating these young people to learn to believe in their future and take responsibility for their progress can be challenging and requires creative solutions. Teachers’ expectations of pupils are also relevant. Teachers have the power not only to raise but also to lower a learner’s expectations. Having low expectations of a student may lead teachers to invest less in that person’s learning, without even being aware of it. Expectations are conditioned by life experiences. Educators provide young people with the knowledge to expand their horizons and evaluate their expectations realistically. |