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
Note: Two updates have been made to this presentation since the video was recorded.
The value sort collating posters linked above and discussed at 12:37 have now been updated to reflect the most recent set of values included in our value sort exercise.
The survey referenced at 17:35 is now closed.
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
3. Responsibility: Research and Application
4. Good work and Character
5. Purpose: An overview and A puzzle
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.
