YEar 2, Lesson 4.1 - Developing a Good Work Goal

Unit Learning Goal

Students will use The Good Project concepts to formulate goals and actions related to good work.

Lesson Goal

Students will be able to apply the various concepts from Year 2 of the lessons to the pursuit of a specific personal goal they want to achieve related to their future work.

Assessment

  • Monitor class conversation during the lesson to help students who may need reinforcement of particular ideas.

  • Review completed Good Work Goal worksheets for appropriate application of concepts.

  • Analyze Exit Tickets for concepts students still find challenging.

CASEL alignment 

Self Awareness, Identity 

Portfolio Documentation

Resources

Prerequisites 

  • Year 2, Lesson 1.2 - Reflecting together

  • Year 2, Lesson 1.3 - Values and Engagement

  • Year 2, Lesson 1.4 - The 3 E’s of Good Work and Finding Balance

  • Year 2, Lesson 1.5 - Ethics and Finances

  • Year 2, Lesson 2.1 - Role Models

  • Year 2, Lesson 2.2 - Mentors and Anti-Mentors

  • Year 2, Lesson 2.3 - What Advice Would You Give?

  • Year 2, Lesson 3.1 - Professional Roles, Dilemmas, the 3 E’s and the 4 C's

  • Year 2, Lesson 3.2 - Responsibility in Decision Making

  • Year 2, Lesson 3.4 - Analyzing a Personal Dilemma

  • Year 2, Lesson 3.5 - Applying Dilemma Strategies

Total TIME

45 minutes

  • 1. Remind students about the concepts that have been covered in this set of lesson plans up to the present point, including:

    • The 3 Es of Good Work (excellence, ethics, and engagement)

    • Reflection 

    • Role Models

    • Navigating Dilemmas (including responsibility, values, alignment/misalignment, roles)

    2. Share that today’s lesson is an opportunity to pull these different strands together.

Instructions

1. Opener: Your Good Work Goal. [40 minutes]

  • Present the “Your Good Work Goal” Handout to students. Explain again that this exercise will offer them the chance to pull together the concepts presented in the lessons to a personal goal.

  • Students should not feel that their goal needs to be something that they will absolutely achieve or that is immediately attainable.

  • If you would like, show students the Famous Failures video about well-known individuals who may not have been immediately successful or recognized as gifted.

  • Allow students to work on the worksheet components.

    • Move about the room or space to help individual students as needed. 

    • You might wish to allow students to work in pairs or small groups together in order for them to share comments. However, their ideas should be their own.

Alternative Modes of Expression: Instead of the worksheet, some students may wish to represent the ideas related to their goal in a visual, video, or artistic format. You may allow students to do so if you so choose. These non-written artifacts may require a written companion piece or a presentation explanation.

2. Closing and Exit Ticket [5 minutes].

Have students complete the Year 2 Lesson 4.1 Exit Ticket.

  • Students will respond to the following prompt:

    • What is one concept from these lessons that you are still finding challenging OR what is one question you would like to further explore?

Possible Enrichments

  • Students engage in a gallery walk of their Your Good Work Goal worksheets or representations, commenting on what is shared, different, or innovative about one another’s ideas.

  • Have students pick a “This I Believe” essay from NPR or a story from the World Wisdom Map wherein the narrator describes a challenge or dilemma they encountered and what they did about it.

    • Students should create a narrative describing that figure’s situation, using the same frames from the “My Good Work Goal” worksheet.

    • Consider allowing various options for the format of this narrative—e.g., written format, song, PowerPoint presentation, graphic organizer, etc.

    • Keep this written work for the Good Work portfolio.

Lesson Walkthrough

Watch this short video guide for lesson specific advice from The Good Project Research Team.