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Next Step U: Helping Students Find the Right Path
The Next Step Magazine offers comprehensive resources on life after High School. Individuals can explore articles, college/university planning, career exploration, and life skills.
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Family: Doing Chores
In this story, a young girl does chores at home before going out to play. Includes audio narration in 6 additional languages with text in English.
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Family: Make Your Bed!
In this story, a boy uses his imagination to make his bed into different things before actually tidying up as his mother asked him to. Includes audio narration in 13 additional languages with text in English.
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Family: Helping My Mom
In this story, a young girl helps out with chores at home. Includes audio narration in 10 additional languages with text in English.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: How Two Decisions Led Me to Olympic Glory
A brief video in which Steve Mesler explains how deciding to switch sports and to take responsibility for his actions helped lead to success at the Olympics. [4:02] Followed by a brief quiz and a list of additional resources to explore.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Teaching With Tunes
Invite your students to sing, dance, and learn alongside their favorite PBS KIDS friends! Discover new and fun ways to integrate music into lessons, routines, and activities to inspire everyday learning. The curated songs center around...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Boston Public Schools Capstone Project
The (Boston Public Schools) Capstone Project is an opportunity for students to engage in rigorous project-based learning. It is an opportunity for our students to develop skills to be life, career, and college-ready in a culturally...
PBS
Wnet: Thirteen: Concept to Classroom Workshop: Making Family and Community Connections
Creating partnerships among schools, parents and local communities can lead to increased learning for students, strengthening their decision making skills, collaboration skills, and overall learning.
University of Georgia
University of Georgia: The Work Ethic Site
Author provides lessons about work ethic which, as he defines it, consists of interpersonal skills, initiative, and dependability. The history of the work ethic describes this characteristic over time and assignments help students to...
Virginia Tech
Journal of Career and Technical Education: Teaching Vocational Work Ethics
This article discusses teaching vocational work ethics using various methods. Author includes notes on key concepts, the background, design, setting, subjects, findings, reflections, and conclusions of the study.
Live Wire Media
Good Character: School to Work: Ethics in the Workplace
Students can become involved in "thorny scenarios" that showcase the need for various workplace ethics such as honesty, personal responsibility, positive attitude, teamwork, and professionalism. The site offers a video-based learning...
Live Wire Media
Good Character: Teaching Guides for Middle School
Although these teaching guides are designed to be used with a video series called "Big Changes, Big Choices," most of the material here can be used without the videos. The topics covered in this series include both life skills and...
Live Wire Media
Good Character: Teaching Guides for High School
The pages in this website were created to accompany two video series, "In Search of Character" and "Not for Sale - Ethics in the Workplace, but most of the material can easily be used without the videos. Character topics include traits...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: What Adults Can Learn From Kids
Child prodigy Adora Svitak says the world needs childish thinking: bold ideas, wild creativity, and especially optimism. Kids' big dreams deserve high expectations, she says, starting with grownups' willingness to learn from children as...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Write Your Story, Change History
In this inspirational TEDYouth Talk, Brad Meltzer encourages us to dream big, work hard, and stay humble. [8:58]
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Exercising Character: Trustworthiness [Pdf]
Help students understand the work ethic, and character trait of trustworthiness. Includes material for young students, lesson ideas for teachers of young children complete with hands-on exercises.
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Quebec Ministry of Educ.: Customized Literacy Training: Functional Situati [Pdf]
Adults weak in basic literacy skills often have difficulty with basic tasks that involve Reading, Writing and Math. This guide provides lesson units on teaching tasks such as filling out forms, estimating the amount of a shopping bill...
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Psych Central: Teaching a Work Ethic
A good work ethic can be taught from the home as well as school. Here's a checklist of what can be done to establish this characteristic in children.
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21st Century Skills: Will Our Students Be Prepared?
This article discusses the importance of 21st century skills and the need for students to be fully prepared as they enter the workforce.
Live Wire Media
Good Character: Teaching Guides for K 5
Guides for teaching life skills that range from trustworthiness to conflict resolution. These guides were created for use with a set of videos, "The Six Pillars of Character," but most of the information and ideas can be used without...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Why I'm Done Trying to Be Man Enough
Justin Baldoni wants to start a dialogue with men about redefining masculinity- to figure out ways to be not just good men but good humans. In a warm, personal TED talk, he shares his effort to reconcile who he is with who the world...
CommonLit
Common Lit: Themes: Education & Knowledge: What Is the Goal of Education?
This is a collection of Grade-Leveled texts (3-12) to address the question, "What is the goal of education?" Select a grade level and a collection of on grade-level reading passages on the topic comes up. [Free account registration...
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Mapping Your Future: For Middle and High School Students
If you read through all sections of this site, then follow through on what you have read, you'll learn to make the most of your high school experience and know how to prepare for your life after high school. The site also has a section...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Common App: Planning to Apply for College Admission
Lesson plan introducing the Common App as a way to apply for colleges.