Learning For Life
Learning for Life offers seven programs designed to support schools and community-based organizations in their efforts to prepare youth to successfully handle the complexities of contemporary society and to enhance their self-confidence, motivation, and self-esteem. The seven programs focus on character development and career education. Learning for Life programs help youth develop social and life skills, assist in character and career development, and help youth formulate positive personal values. It prepares youth to make ethical decisions that will help them achieve their full potential.
Aims Of Learning For Life
The aims of Learning for Life are to:
- Encourage a desire for life-long learning.
- Foster the acquisition and application of personal/social skills.
- Prepare tomorrow's workforce through exposure of career management skills.
- Develop engaged citizens.
Methods
Learning for Life's seven programs are delivered by adults (teachers, mentors, speakers, advisors or parents) in one of two ways: instructional settings and work sites.
- Instructional settings can be:
- Schools (public and private)
- Learning Centers (before/after school programs, religious institutions, summer programs, day care centers)
- Work sites can be:
- Businesses and community/governmental organizations that have the resources to offer hands on career experiences in the workplace
AIMS OF LEARNING FOR LIFE |
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| Encourage a desire for life-long learning | Foster the acquisition and application of personal and social skills | Prepare tomorrow's workforce through exposure of career management skills | Develop engaged citizens |
| Reinforcing academic proficiencies | Building interpersonal skills | Offering career information | Increasing the appreciation of the American democratic system |
| Developing communication abilities | Facilitating leadership development | Fostering career planning | Participating in service learning experiences |
| Enhancing life skills | Coaching character development | Presenting opportunities for career experiences | Preparing responsible individuals for each life role (life role as a member of a family, community, nation and world and as a worker) |
| Exposure to healthy life style habits | Influencing cultural competency and recognition of diversity | Influencing cultural competency and recognition of diversity | |
| Emphasizing continued educational achievement | Teaching problem solving and decision making skills | Cultivating the use of resources, information & technology | |
The Programs of Learning for Life (PDF 7.7 MB)