Vocabulary
Family Life Cycle
Future Learning Experiences
Personal Development
Life Roles & Their Competencies
100

Confidence in your own merit as an individual person.

What is Self-Esteem?

100

This life stage is the first stage of our lives. It's when most children are students and living at home with their parents or guardians.

What is Independence to Young Adult?

100

Also called Junior Colleges, these colleges are well-known for Associate Degrees and two-year learning. Credits from these can be transferred to a four-year college and lead directly to employment. 

What are Community Colleges?

100

This is the development of gross and fine motor skills along with the progress of ones dexterity, usually a child's. This includes control over muscles, physical coordination, ability to sit and stand.

What is Physical Growth?

100

Career planning, using technical skills, accepting supervision, giving supervision, getting along with people, cooperating, planning, delegating, managing.

What is a Work Life Role?

200

The process of change that occurs in human beings throughout development.

What are Development Changes?

200

This life stage takes place during the senior years and is when most are grandparents or reducing their time from work.

What is Retirement?

200

This training can take several different forms and is available from many companies. It's also known as employee training at the place of work while they are doing the actual job. 

What is On-the-Job Training?

200

This development is maturing and developing ones social skills and learning to get along better with others. 

What is Social Growth?

200

Reading, writing, computing, perceiving, conceptualizing, imagining, inquiring, aspiring, diagnosing, planning, finding help, evaluating.

What is a Learner Life Role?

300

One bound by legal agreement to work for another for a specific amount of time in return for instruction in a trade, art, or business.

What is an Apprenticeship? 

300

This life stage is when a person decides to become engaged and commits themselves to another person.

What is Coupling and Marriage?

300

These colleges/universities are one of the most well-known and come in all sizes, varieties, and costs. You would most likely graduate from these with Bachelor Degrees.

What are Four-Year Colleges?

300

This is the development of your ability to process information and form your own conclusions. You become more capable of analyzing, understanding, and evaluating concepts to make sense.

What is Intellectual Growth?

300

Caring, participating, leading, decision-making, acting, being sensitive to one's conscience, discussing, having perspective (historical and cultural), being a global citizen.

What is a Community Life Role?

400

Educational programs that specialize in the skilled trades, applied sciences, modern technologies, and career preparation.

What are Career and Technical Education(s)?

400

This third life stage is when a person decides to become a parent.

What is Parenting?

400

These opportunities allow you to become a skilled worker through an arrangement between you, an employer, union and a school of some kind.

What are Apprenticeships? 

400

This is the process by which we begin to have increasing awareness and control of our feelings and how we react to these feelings in a given situation.

What is Emotional Growth?

400

Self-analyzing, goal-building, expressing, accepting, being authentic, loving, empathizing, listening, collaborating, sharing, helping, giving constructive feedback, supporting.

What is a Personal Life Role?

500

These provide students with a context for studying traditional academics and learning the skills specific to a career.

What are Career Clusters?

500

This fourth stage is when a person's children moves out and officially becomes independent from their parents.

What is Launching into Adulthood?

500

These schools offer specialized training in a wide variety of careers. Attending one of these schools for a year or two can lead to jobs paying as much or more as a college degree. However, they can be pricy.

What are Technical Schools?

500

In this stage our self-esteem is developed.

What is Emotional Growth?

500

Maintaining health, planning, managing, helping, sharing, efficient and effective buying, saving, loving, taking responsibility.

What is a Family Life Role?