Academic Conferences | Apprenticeships |
Artistic Pursuits | Book Clubs |
Case Studies | Coaching |
Community Involvement | Community Service |
Conversation | Creative Writing |
Cultural Activities | Debates |
Decision Making | Design Experience |
Diy Projects | Entrepreneurial Ventures |
Experiments | Extracurricular Activities |
Facing Fears | Field Trips |
Films & Documentaries | Formal Education |
Friendships | Improv |
Industry Conferences | Internships |
Labs | Language Immersion |
Language Lessons | Leadership Roles |
Leading Teams | Learning From Failure |
Lectures | Living Abroad |
Lunch & Learns | Media Projects |
Mentorship | Museums |
Music Lessons | Peer Collaboration |
Peer Learning | Political Participation |
Practice Problems | Practicing a Skill |
Presentations | Problem Solving |
Protests | Public Speaking |
Reading | Research Projects |
Risk Taking | School Clubs |
Seminars | Solo Sports |
Solo Travel | Sports Teams |
Staring a Business | Student Government |
Study Groups | Studying & Homework |
Studying Abroad | Theatrical Performances |
Thesis Writing | Traveling Abroad |
Tutorials | Tutoring |
Volunteering | Work Experience |
Workshops | Writing |
Formal Education
Structured learning opportunities offered by an institution such as a school. Formal education can provide extensive learning environments such as multiple learning programs, educational events, extracurricular activities, social interaction and research programs.
Extracurricular Activities
Clubs, teams, competitions and classes that students take while in school. Extracurricular activities can enrich school life and complement learning with more in-depth or diverse experiences.
Learning Events
Learning events such such as public speaking events, conferences, classes and workshops. This supports lifelong learning and independent learning. Learning events are also central to formal education such as academic conferences and competitions that allow for rich interactions between members of different schools.
Life Experience
The human experience itself is a learning experience including elements such as socializing, dealing with problems, taking on responsibilities and adapting to change.
Work Experience
Experiences in a job or entrepreneurial ventures such as a family business. Work experience can also include volunteering and freelance work such as tutoring.
Independent Learning
Learning on your own including structured learning such as a tutorial or online course. Independent learning can also include experiences such as hobbies, diy projects, creative pursuits and independent research.
Social Learning
The process of learning from others. Humans are fundamentally social beings that thrive in cooperative, collaborative and competitive learning environments. Social learning includes adversarial processes such as debate and challenging assumptions. It can also involve cooperative processes such as information sharing, building on the ideas of others and collaborative study, projects and research.
Character Building
Troubles and problems can be described as learning opportunities. The use of the term character building to describe stress, adversity and problems is often used sarcastically to denote toxic positivity whereby every problem is supposedly an opportunity. Nevertheless, it is true that the process of dealing with problems shapes a person's character. It isn't possible to build certain character strengths such as resilience and courage without some degree of stress.
