Project Activities

Formal instructional education in Australia is faced with the challenge of providing young people with more opportunities than ever before in leadership and personal development for career and societal success.  Research from America has found that students who received formal leadership training scored higher than students who had not received leadership training on seven of the top ten personal qualities that employers seek.

Further according to an Australia Report titled “Employability Skills for the Future” (ACC, 2002) the key skills needed to increase one’s employability include the following:

  • communication skills that contribute to productive and harmonious relations between employees and customers;
  • team work skills that contribute to productive working relationships and outcomes;
  • problem-solving skills that contribute to productive outcomes;
  • initiative and enterprise skills that contribute to innovative outcomes;
  • planning and organising skills that contribute to long-term and short-term strategic planning;
  • self-management skills that contribute to employee satisfaction and growth;
  • learning skills that contribute to ongoing improvement and expansion in employee and company operations and outcomes; and
  • technology skills that contribute to effective execution of tasks.

With this important research in mind, the objective of the TLfS Project Activities is to engage students in real life situations so as to develop the personal skills described above.  The TLfS Project Activities are based around projects of the student’s choice and are carefully supervised by trained TLfS teachers and/or Facilitators.

These projects can be undertaken in the following ways:

  • Research - conducting research and then analysing information to discover new knowledge in regards to sustainability
  • Enterprise - planning and operating a business activity that encompasses elements of sustainability
  • Work Placement - working in an organisation to get first hand experience in the career of their choice and tackling some sustainability issues on the ground

All these projects should be geared towards getting first hand knowledge and/or experience in sustainability related issues.  Ideally these projects should also challenge the students to consider their own career pathway and how they might use this information and skills in the future workplace.  By researching, experiencing and/or working in a career related project, all participants will be able to apply their TLfS learnings to a real life situation.  They will also be able to test some of their leadership skills and knowledge through these supervised practical activities.

The Member’s section of this website contains a database of suggested projects.  These ideas cover a wide range of issues while also providing practical suggestions for interesting and topical research projects, enterprise ideas and work placement opportunities.
 
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