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Week 1 Tutorial Common Values

The document outlines a lesson plan focused on identifying and discussing common values among students. It emphasizes the importance of values in shaping social, societal, and organizational lives and includes group activities to facilitate discussion. The reading material highlights how shared values create a sense of belonging and the challenges that arise when personal values conflict with those of others.

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Week 1 Tutorial Common Values

The document outlines a lesson plan focused on identifying and discussing common values among students. It emphasizes the importance of values in shaping social, societal, and organizational lives and includes group activities to facilitate discussion. The reading material highlights how shared values create a sense of belonging and the challenges that arise when personal values conflict with those of others.

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Professional Toolkit 1

Week 1
What are our Common Values?

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Skills: Respectful listening and discussing


Learning outcome: Students will share their values and discuss how they can
benefit their social, societal and organisational lives.
Resources: Why Values Matter (bottom of this page)
Time period: 1 Lesson

Tasks:
Break into small groups around a white board.
Read the statement ‘Why Values Matter’ and then complete the prompts in the table below. Use the
whiteboard to record your responses.

5 minutes
1. In your groups, negotiate and then note
down the values from the list below, (Values
most important to me) and list them here:
5 minutes
2. In one or two sentences, write down why
these choices matter to you and how they
can benefit our social, societal and
organisational lives.

2 minutes per group max


3. Each group presents their core values
statement to the class

4. Take a photo of your whiteboard poster and


save it.

Read: 3 minutes
Why values matter
Values help us shape the future we want, affecting our thought processes and responses to everything we see
and hear. They inform our assumptions about what is worth doing, saying or having in our lives or who is worth
knowing. They serve as a moral compass for what we consider ethical in our own and others’ behaviours.
Shared values create a sense of belonging, identity, community, and common purpose. Strongly held values can
be energising, inspiring great acts.
Conversely, if we operate against our values, we are likely to experience self-conflict. When our values clash
with those of our friends or employers, it can create difficulties in our relationships or our ability to carry out
what we are asked to do or say. It is not always easy to square our desires (such as for material goods) with our
ethical values and beliefs. At some point, this can make us challenge what we believed was important and what
we want from life.
★ Internal: our sense of how things should be, what we consider to be important
★ Social: principles reflected in how we behave towards others; our sense of what kind of behaviours are
expected of us by those around us
★ Societal: such as national, cultural, or professional expectations of what to care about, of what is right, just,
fair
★ Organisational: the values of organisations we study with, work for, or use for services.
When these value sets are mutually reinforcing, life can feel harmonious. When they pull in
opposing directions, that raises moral and practical challenges that we need to resolve.

[Cottrell, Stella. Skills for Success]

Values most important to me

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