Values
Learning Objectives:
• Students will define a value.
• Students will identify three of their
personal values.
• Students will state how their values
affect their choices in everyday living
• Consider the following scenario:
Kick-off • You must leave your house quickly, within 10 minutes, and never
Discussion: return. You can only take three items with you.
• What do you take?
• Why did you choose these items?
• Values are your ideas and beliefs.
Values: • Each person has different values.
• Our values are based on many aspects including
Main ideas family, religion, peers, culture, race, social
background, gender, etc.
• Our values help us decide what is important, or not, in
our life.
• Values impact our decisions every day.
• Knowing your values is important because values
guide decisions about our future.
• Not only is the career itself important, but sometimes
what the career can offer (i.e. lots of money, status,
relationships, meaningful work) satisfies a person’s
values.
• Why did the person act this way?
Classroom • What personal values might have caused them to act in this way?
Discussion: • Name a value that is important to them.
• How does this value show up in your actions?
Values • In decision making?
• In the way you relate to others?
Values Word
Wall
Adventure/Fun Friendship/Family
Money/Wealth Justice/Honesty
Spirituality/Religion Knowledge/Education
• Put these value cards in order from 1 through 6
Values Word • 1 being very important, 3-4 being somewhat important, and 6 being least
important
Wall Extension: • No right or wrong answers
What’s Important to • When finished, compare with a partner.
Me? Activity • Was their ranking similar or different?
• Share why you put the cards in a particular order.
1 2 3 4 5
6
Very important Somewhat important Least
Understanding
Yourself Puzzle
Activity
Create your own self-identity puzzle
by adding personal value statements
through writing or drawing. Design
and share with your peers!
“People with certain values and needs are best suited
Values in Career for jobs that have requirements that correspond with
Activity: those characteristics.”
(Dawis and Lofquist’s, 1984)
Theory of Work
Adjustment
• Explains the interaction between an individual and a work environment.
• The individual brings a set of skills to perform the tasks of the work
setting.
• In exchange, the individual receives a paycheck.
• Ongoing adjustment by the individual and the work environment is
required to maintain positive interaction (called work adjustment).
• Work adjustment leads to satisfaction of both individual and work setting.
Values in Career
Activity: Achievement Relationships
Independence Support
Recognition Working Conditions