SLT help

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I am working on some targets with our SLT for a new group DS will be in. He is going to start and run an 'enterprise' project rather than a traditional social skills group.

The first part of this will be preparation for running the project with others: researching, presenting an argument to the class, selecting volunteers. He is very excited.

We have worked with him to select the difficulties he would like to work on during the research phase and have identified: organising himself and planning for tasks.

The issue is, I want, as ever the targets to be SMART and the skills learnt to be transferrable.

Any ideas.

Which bit is he most excited about? Research - presentation - selection?

Does he get to choose the topic? Free-choice - selection of alternatives etc?

Which bit is the most daunting/area of most difficulty?

Sorry I have forgotton his age

Thanks's he is 9. I think organising his thoughts and planning will be most difficult. He loves to research stuff and loves to raise money for charity. We want a target which will enable him to plan each element in stages while being taught this is specifically a planning skill which you can use in all work. And then try and have him demonstrate this learnt skill.

Later on, after the project is planned and presented to the class, volunteers will join him in discussing fundraising ideas and doing the fundraising. That will enable communication targets to be worked on.

DS likes the plan as he loves the idea of being a charity ambassador and likes the fact that no one else knows he is working on SLT targets!

Bumping for ideas!

Great idea! ::shamelessly nicks for the notebook::

So for the research I'd target him to finding three things that he wanted people to agree with/buy into. And then research the info to fit round this, which would focus him. If he likes the research phase I'm guessing there's a danger he'll go either too wide or too deep into one aspect, so if you set him up to research to his desired outcomes a) that will help his planning and b) measure the success of the research because if he does that well, the buy-in would be high and c) thats super transferable. - its the basis of all projects, see a need and present it back in a compelling way. And obviously all the way through that he is considering others' needs which is important for his social communication.