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“ Good Work ” in the Classroom and Beyond

“ Good Work ” in the Classroom and Beyond. Lynn Barendsen and Wendy Fischman Project Zero Harvard Graduate School of Education The Good Project. Course Throughlines. What does learning look like? How and where does learning thrive? What ’ s worth understanding today and tomorrow?.

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“ Good Work ” in the Classroom and Beyond

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  1. “Good Work” in the Classroom and Beyond Lynn Barendsen and Wendy Fischman Project Zero Harvard Graduate School of Education The Good Project

  2. Course Throughlines • What does learning look like? • How and where does learning thrive? • What’s worth understanding today and tomorrow?

  3. GoodWorkProject • Howard Gardner (Harvard University) • Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (Claremont University) • William Damon (Stanford University)

  4. “Good Work” Ethical Excellent Engaging

  5. GoodWorkProject How do individuals who desire to do good work succeed or fail at a time when market forces are powerful, there are few, if any, counterforces, and our sense of time and space is being altered in a technologically-oriented society?

  6. Scope of Research • Sample • 1200 participants • Journalism, Genetics, Law, Medicine, Philanthropy, Business, Precollegiate Education, Higher Education, Theater • Adolescents and adults • Nominated participants • Tools • Semi-Structured Interviews • Values-Sort

  7. General Findings: Responsibility • To whom or to what are you most responsible? • Spheres of Responsibility • Self • Other (family members, peers, neighbors) • Workplace • Domain • Society • Imputed

  8. General Findings: Responsibility • To whom or to what are you most responsible?

  9. General Findings: Values

  10. General Findings: Alignment/Misalignment • Alignment = when all the various interest groups call for the same kind of work performances • Misalignment = when all the various interest groups are at cross-purposes

  11. GoodWork Toolkit Purpose: To introduce the concept of “good work” to students and educators: ♦ What kind of worker are you? ♦ What kind of worker would you like to become?

  12. GoodWork Toolkit: Contents • Narratives • Opportunities for Reflection • Role play • Debates • Interviews • Journaling • Short research projects

  13. Settings • Classrooms • School communities • Professional development workshops

  14. How can students do good work? • Model • Mission • Mirror

  15. Investigating Goals • What initially attracted you to your work? • What kinds of things are you trying to accomplish in your work right now? • What are you hoping will be the greater impact of your current work? • How do you define success? • What are your career goals?

  16. To Print or Not to Print • To whom or to what does Debbie feel responsible? • What are her short and long-term goals? • In the end, what was Debbie’s “bottom line?” How did she make her decision?

  17. Value Sort

  18. Thank you!

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