Seven Ways to Help High Schoolers Find Purpose
By Patrick Cook-Deegan | January 11, 2016 | 1 CommentMany students go through high school bored and unengaged. Patrick Cook-Deegan explains what a purpose-driven curriculum would look like.
Over the past decade, I have had the chance to ask thousands of teenagers what they think about school. I’ve found that the vast majority of them generally feel one of two ways: disengaged or incredibly pressured.
One thing nearly all teens agree on is that most of what high school teaches them is irrelevant to their lives outside of school or their future careers. One study found that the most common feelings among high school students are fatigue and boredom. Another study concluded that 65 percent of the jobs that today’s high school graduates will have in their lifetime do not even exist yet. But we are still teaching them in the same way that we trained industrial workers a century ago.
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