EduCon 2025Teaching Adulting Skills Throughout Your School
Many young people leave high school unprepared for the transition to adulthood, which comes rapidly in the years following graduation. Educators commonly talk about the need to teach our students financial competency, smart consumerism, professionalism in the workplace, and other adult skills. But we often find that time pressures, standardized curriculum, and lack of knowledge or materials, limit our ability to include those topics in the school day.
We will hear from actual students what they most want to learn as they enter adulthood, and will hear from young adults how this kind of learning has aided their transitions. Come prepared to discuss how and what you learned, and importantly, what you most wished someone had taught you in secondary school.
We’ll discuss how these skills are taught at SLA and learn about curricular resources and tricks for squeezing lessons into existing curriculum and across classrooms.
Conversational Practice
We will begin by polling participants for their experiences in learning life skills - which were helpful, and which would have been. We’ll talk with existing and graduated students to learn their perspectives, and then explore our own challenges in bringing adulting lessons to our own classrooms. The point of these conversations is not to come to conclusions, but to explore options for implementing these needed learnings.
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