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Our Mission
Learning for Life
Special Needs
Elementary School
Junior High/Middle School
Senior High School
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HERE for the Career Speaker Orientation |
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Our Mission |
The mission of Learning for Life is "to serve others by helping to instill values of good character, participating citizenship and personal fitness in young people, and in other ways prepare them to make ethical choices in their lifetime for achieving their full potential." |
Learning for Life |
Learning for Life is an educational program designed to meet the needs of youth and schools. It helps youth meet the challenge of growing up by teaching character and good decision-making skills and then linking those skills to the real world. Developed by professional educators and child development experts, the age-appropriate and grade-specific lesson plans of the Learning for Life program have been praised for their ability to get youth involved through the use of such teaching techniques as role playing, small group discussions and reflective and dilemma exercises. |
Special Needs |
This Learning for Life program teaches students with special needs the life skills they need to achieve self-sufficiency. To meet the various levels of disabilities schools encounter, the program can be tailored to meet the needs of individual students. |
Elementary School |
The curriculum for each grade level consists of 60 lesson plans per grade level designed to reinforce social, ethical and academic skills in such areas as critical and creative thinking, ethical decision making, conflict resolution, interpersonal relationships, practical living skills, building self-esteem, writing, other language arts and participating citizenship. A family involvement component extends each lesson plan into the student's home environment. |
Junior High/Middle School |
This program is designed to enable community role models and mentors to motivate and interact with students. Role models and mentors with backgrounds similar to those of students share their personal paths to success, including the obstacles and the successes. The program also includes a series of 50 interactive workshops that help youth develop and assess the personal skills and values needed to make future career choices. |
Senior High School |
The senior high program features 26 character-education activities and 35 interactive workshops. The character-education activities are proposed dilemmas that the students discuss and develop solutions. The 35 workshops teach the practical skills necessary for youth to acquire a job and stay employed. An interactive CD-ROM career game is included. The workshops are followed by a series of career seminars presented by community representatives who offer students in-depth understanding and firsthand knowledge of the career fields they have chosen. |