Thinking Outside The Box

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These courses help keep students thinking creatively and stay positive.  Thinking outside the box is important to learn early, so students can continue to develop when they become young adults and have to compete with the rest of the world.

 


Creative Careers: Finding and Following Your Passion

 

Recommended Audience: 8th – 12th grade

Class size: About 50 students

Duration: One 45 minute session

Prerequisites: None

 

All too often adults ask kids “What do you want to be when you grow up?”  This is a logical question but can lead to stress for the student who has yet to decide.  On the other side, those who know exactly what they want to do, when they enter the workforce, are often disappointed when opportunities don’t exactly fit with their preconceived models.  This course shows students to not necessarily look at a specific job, as a career, but to look at a field of interest and see what jobs encompass that field.  Specific topics include:

  • Do you really know what you want to do?
  • Keep your options open
  • Don’t just follow the pack
  • What if things change, down the road?
  • Looking inside yourself
  • Viewing careers differently
  • Narrowing it down
  • Characteristics of successful people

 

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Breaking Down Large Projects

 

Recommended Audience: 7th – 12th grade (may be taught as early as 5th grade for a specific project)

Duration: 45 minutes- 1 hour

Prerequisites: None

 

Do your students get overwhelmed when they are assigned a large project or assignment?  Do they know how to approach the project so they can successfully complete it … on time?

Breaking Down Large Projects can help your students understand how to break these projects into bite-size chunks so they have the confidence to complete these projects and understand them.

 

Being able to break down large projects is a skill needed for college as well as to succeed in the workforce.

 

Teachers don’t have to reinvent the wheel by coming up with their own lesson on how to approach these projects.  While TMP shows your students how to break things down into manageable chunks, you have extra time to work on your other lesson plans which makes this a win-win.

 

Some of the things that the students will learn from this course:

  • What to do when assigned a project
  • How to break the project down into manageable chunks
  • How to plan each piece
  • How to transition from one section to another
  • Tying everything together
  • How to tell that your project met the guidelines

 

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Staying Positive Through Challenging Times

 

Recommended Audience: 8th – 12th grade

Class size: About 30 students

Duration: One 45 minute session

Prerequisites: None

 

Developing healthy, positive, attitudes and personal philosophies are essential for helping us get through good and bad times.  Unfortunately, this usually comes with experience, when in reality; it could help us earlier in life.

 

This course explains what personal philosophies are, how they can help us, how to develop them and how they change over time.  Specific topics include:

  • What is a personal philosophy and how does it affect your attitude?
  • Do personal philosophies come naturally?
  • Some famous philosophies.  How do they affect you?
  • Developing a personal philosophy and what it can really mean.
  • Know yourself first.

 

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