Prepare Students for Their Future: Develop a Course for Students to Explore Their Purpose
People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.
– Dalai Lama XIV
INTRO
Develop a course for students to explore their purpose and gain a better understanding of who they are and what they value.
GO skills and behaviors include elements of student agency– self-awareness, self-knowledge, and an understanding of who you are in the context of the world around you, including your family and your community. This includes leadership skills, advocacy skills, self-care, and healthy habits, as well as skills like kindness and empathy. Many of these skills are necessary to successfully navigate big life transitions such as attending college, enrolling in a vocational program, starting a new job, or even beginning a new personal relationship.
OBJECTIVES
- Develop a course for students to explore their purpose, gain a better understanding of who they are, and what they value
- Ensure the course is genuinely student-centered and provides opportunities for students to practice life-ready skills as well as plan and prepare for their actual future
ACTIVITY
- Develop a course for students to explore their purpose, gain a better understanding of who they are, and what they value.
- Consider using materials such as Project Wayfinder.
- The course should be authentically student-centered and provide for student agency, autonomy, voice and choice. It should serve as a guide for them to discover and explore themselves and their purpose and futures.
- Not only are students more likely to engage in the course because it’s directly relevant to them, but future-focused courses provide students with a lower-stakes environment to practice life-ready skills and directly plan and prepare for their actual future (not a hypothetical or generic future).
TIPS
- Key Moves are efforts that require a bit of planning, such as the activity above, but can be implemented within the next three to six months.
- Like this activity? Check out Inflexion’s full-page GO document for more ideas.
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