Adult Life Skills
This section includes those skills that some successful adults learned through trial and failure while other adults learned by good examples in their lives when they were young. The hope is for students in this class to learn necessary skills to be confident and independent adults.
This site offers lots of articles on how to develop and improve social skills and overcoming shyness and insecurities. It helps young people to build communication skills, confidence, and friendships
This site offers 14 modules on "Overcoming Obstacles" covering communication, making decisions, solving problems, setting goals, resolving conflicts, and preparing for college and careers. There are several activities in each module that require several participants. You can choose to include family members and/or friends to participate...or just read through the info and learn independently from the activities.
This site takes you into the various careers available to you. You can dig around and look at options for college degree careers, vocational careers, and tons more. It also teaches you how much education you need and the steps to take to move toward the job/career you are interested in. This is a great resource to dig around on and log hours searching for your options.
This site is specific to career researching. This link has some common things as listed above, but has video sections to learn about different careers. I highly recommend exploring this site.
This site is specifically for students looking at attending college. It includes the application process, doing your best in high school, looking at options, paying for college, etc.
To be able to log your time in this section, you must read the articles of your choosing and summarize on paper what the article covered.
