Preparing Apprentice-Adults for Life after High School (MyWays Report 5)
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Today’s learners face a rapidly changing world that demands far different skills than were needed in the past. We also know much more about how student learning actually happens and what supports high-quality learning experiences. Our collective future depends on how well young people prepare for the challenges and opportunities of 21st-century life.
This report examines the adolescent developmental tasks that are key to a healthy life and to successfully navigating the work/learn landscape: reclaiming the potential of the adolescent years; finding self, strengths, and direction; acquiring capability and agency; overcoming trauma and personal challenges; and building relationships and social capital. (October 2017, 3MB)
Report 5 is the last of five reports in Part A of the MyWays Student Success Series. Part A, “Adolescence in an Age of Accelerations,” analyzes the real-world changes and conditions that are most acutely impacting young people and outlines key developmental tasks of the adolescent years.
The MyWays Student Success Series examines the through-line of four essential questions for next generation learning and provides research and practice-based support to help school designers and educators to answer these questions. The series consists of 12 reports organized into three parts, plus a Visual Summary and Introduction and Overview. For more on MyWays, visit myways.nextgenlearning.org