Life Skills & Leadership: Unit 1, Session 4: Choosing Positive Values | Page 46 of 93“I would like you to imagine that you are a newspaper or radio reporter. Your challenge is to discover
some of the ways that other people have learned about the values and messages expressed on your
paper. For the next few moments, I want you to move about the learning space and interview at least
three different people. Ask them to give you examples of how or from whom they learned your
message.“For example, if your message is that education is important, someone might say that they learned this
value when their older sister helped them with their schoolwork. You can refer to Flip chart 2 : Interview
Questions as a reminder of the information you are trying to gather.”- Expect a lot of activity as participants interview each other. After a few minutes, give several
participants a chance to share their message and some of the ways they found that people learned
about it. Lead a discussion using questions similar to these:
What was your value and what are some of the ways people learned about it?
Who were the “teachers” of the value? (Possible answers: parents, relatives, school teachers,
spiritual leaders, friends, media [television, radio, books, music, etc.])
What institutions or organizations help teach the value? (Possible answers: schools, spiritual
communities, health clinic, etc.)
How often did people realize they were learning a value while it was happening?Note: This discussion also serves as an assessment of Learning Objectives 1 and 2.B. Summary
Conclude the exercise by saying:
“Remember, we did not realize we were learning these messages, yet we have used them to build our
‘house’!”IV. Application (45 minutes)
Materials:
Five small pieces of paper for each participant (index cards or plain paper cut into fourths)
Handout 1: List of Values
Pens or pencils
Personal posters made in the Assessment section “My Life as Art” of Session 2
Art supplies such as markers, crayons, magazine pictures, glue, tape
A. “What’s Most Valuable?”
Participants identify at least two guiding principles for how they want to live and who they want to be.
- Make a preliminary assessment of the level of understanding that participants have about values. Ask:
“What do you think values are and what are some of your values?”