Hope Guidance Lesson
By: Evan Kruschke, Meaghan Logan
& Lauren Mills
Introduction:
This guidance lesson is intended to
address the theme of Hope and the importance for students to have hope in their
own lives for themselves and others. This lesson works to teach students about
hope, apply it to their personal life, identify why it is important to them,
and give them time to practice using hope in everyday scenarios. The theme of
hope is incredibly personal for each individual, and we aim for our lesson to
give flexibility for students to view it in their own way.
Resources/Supplies
needed:
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Posters
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Markers
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Blank bookmarks
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Scenarios
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Worksheets about hope
Overview
of Guidance Lesson:
Introduction:
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Explain a school counselor's’ role
to the students and explain why we are visiting their classroom that day.
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Introduce the concept of Hope and
activate students’ previous knowledge about Hope.
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“Who thinks they know what hope is?”
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“Can anyone tell us when you might
need to have hope?”
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“What does it mean to have hope?”
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“How can we demonstrate hope in our
lives?”
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“Who are people we know that show
hope?”
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Define Hope
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Create anticipation: Getting
students excited for the lesson: We are so excited to teach you about Hope and
hear your ideas! If you share an answer you will get a piece of candy!
Developmental
learning activities:
This lesson can be adapted to any
grade level K-8. Here are a few activity options to teach students the concept
of hope!
Draw it out: Give students time (10-12 min) of a time they
were hopeful at school. Counselor can walk around and offer support to generate
ideas, more support needed for younger students. Then select a few students
from the group to present their poster to the class and posters will be hung
up/left for the teacher to use if they want!
For Kindergarten-2nd
grade classes:
Read the short poem and give them time to decorate their bookmarks (example
below). Additional activity can include, “What Do You Hope For?” worksheets.
Poem: “Hope is believing your dreams
will come true, It’s knowing you’ll be successful in all that you do. You will
need to work hard and have patience too, but when you have HOPE each day is
brand new!”
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“Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the
shadow. It’s what the sunflowers do.” ~ Helen Keller
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For 3rd grade and up: Break into small groups and give
them a scenario, ask them to work together to come up with a skit/role play of
how they would show hope in each scenario.
Scenario Ideas: Someone who is struggling with an
assignment, someone has a family member who is sick, someone who did not get
chosen for their favorite game at recess/PE, etc.
Closing and
follow up/ Assessment:
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Give students a recap of activities we did during the lesson
and what we learned today
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Ask students to share out their favorite new thing they
learned today
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Throughout the lesson we will ask thumbs/thumbs down
questions to check for understanding
