Professional Development Resources

Core Professional Development Sequence

During the 2023-2024 academic year, we designed and conducted a professional development series that covers The Good Project’s core concepts. Initially offered live to members of our Community of Practice, asynchronous versions of the sessions are available below.

1. What is “Good work”?

2. Excellence

3. Ethics

4. Engagement

5. Exploring Values

6. Responsibility

7. Mentors and Role Models

8. Reflection

9. Purpose and Mission

10. Alignment and Misalignment

11. Dilemma Discussions

12. Doing Good Work

Supplementary Professional Development SEQUENCE (2024-2025)

From 2024-2025, we are offering an additional set of professional development sessions with more ideas that can support educators in teaching “good work.” Check back for videos, and register for our professional development by joining our community of practice.

1. Design thinking

2. Global Citizenship

Additional Professional Development videos

Teaching Good Work in the Classroom

In this introduction, designed for secondary school educators but adaptable to any audience, we review the research that led to The Good Project’s tools and resources, which support young people to learn skills and strategies to flourish as future workers. In addition, the video invites teachers to learn how to engage students with real-world dilemmas, reflective activities, thinking routines, and guided conversations.

DISCUSSING TENSIONS COMMON TO DILEMMAS

This pilot professional development session was developed for the Good Project Lesson Plans (GPLP) Community of Practice and discusses common tensions found in dilemmas, drawing on work from our colleagues on the Project Zero C4 project and Rush Kidder's ethical paradigms.

Modeling videos

In these two videos, we talk through dilemmas using the rings of responsibility and a “See-Think-Wonder” thinking routine. You may find these videos helpful for you to structure your own discussion with your students.