Sample Activities

What is Good Work?

An Introduction to the Concept

Getting Specific: What Do YOU Want?

Look at the following list and indicate which statements feel most accurate or true for you in terms of what you want to get out of your experience in school…

Challenging Choices

Take a few minutes to think about two situations in which you experienced tension with a classmate, a teacher, a parent, or yourself…

Looking at the Big Picture: Investigating Professional Goals

Think about a type of work that interests you, in which you can see yourself involved at some point in the future. After some investigation (at school, in your neighborhood, in your family, etc.)…

Who’s My Hero: Identifying Influences on Work and Life

Pick a partner. Interview each other with the following questions… What influences are most important to how you do your work (as a student, as an employee at a paid job, as a participant in an extracurricular activity, etc.)…