By Miri Cha | Education Team Senior Program Manager
Everyone would have asked themselves one of the following questions when they were teenagers.
‘What am I going to do in the future?’
‘What am I good at?’
‘Why do I need to study?’
Someone might find their own answer to these questions by exploring a number of different things, continuously questioning themselves, organizing their thoughts, strengths and weaknesses. The answers each of us found might be different, but there is one thing in common -- a person who we can share our questions and concerns with.
However, not everyone is lucky to have someone who takes the questions and concerns of the teenagers seriously.
This was the starting point of this year’s Career Path Finding project of NKHR. The session of the project concentrated on understanding who I am and how to design their future.
The session concentrated 1) to understand what the ‘perspective’ is, 2) to make a vision board to find what my dreams are 3) to find my strengths and weaknesses 4) to understand what the occupational values are and what they value the most among them.
It was quite hard for the students to make the abstract ideas and thoughts into the visual materials in the beginning since the thinking process was unfamiliar to them.
“To be honest, in the beginning, I didn’t see the need to change my thoughts and dreams into visual materials. However, I felt the impact of it throughout the sessions and now I can actually visualize how I want my future to be rather than simply imagining it -- making the vision board was a great help to it. I wouldn’t say my career road map is crystal clear yet, but I believe it will be soon.”
“One of the things I liked the most was interacting with each other and the teachers. It wasn’t easy for me to communicate in depth with the teachers at school since there were a lot of the students. However, even though my Korean is not good enough, the teachers always waited for me to deliver my thoughts. I could think again about how I see the world, and how it can change depending on how I see it.”
The 2014 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Malala Yousafzai quotes “One child, one pencil, one teacher and one book can change the world”. The generous support of GlobalGiving donors make this possible! Your support specifically allows us to buy academic materials such as markers, notebooks, books to support the dreams of students!
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