STANDARD COURSE OF STUDY

1.01 Articulate feelings of competence and confidence as a learner.

1.02 Display a positive interest in learning.

1.03 Demonstrate work and achievement.

1.04 Justify mistakes as essential to the learning process.

1.05 Practice attitudes and behaviors which lead to successful learning.

1.06 Apply time management and task management skills.

1.07 Demonstrate how effort and persistence positively affect learning.

1.08 Use communication skills to know when and how to ask for help when needed.

1.09 Apply knowledge of learning styles to positively influence school performance.

1.10 Verify responsibility for actions.

1.11 Demonstrate the ability to work independently, as well as the ability to work cooperatively with other students.

1.12 Develop a broad range of interests and abilities.

1.13 Demonstrate dependability, productivity, and initiative.

1.14 Communicate knowledge.

2.01 Demonstrate the motivation to achieve individual potential.

2.02 Apply critical thinking skills.

2.03 Apply the study skills necessary for academic success at each level.

2.04 Seek information and support from faculty, staff, family, and peers.

2.05 Apply academic information from a variety of sources.

2.06 Use knowledge of learning styles to positively influence school performance.

2.07 Choose to be self-directed, independent learners.

2.08 Establish challenging academic goals.

2.09 Use assessment results in educational planning.

2.10 Implement an annual plan of study to maximize academic ability and achievement.

2.11 Apply knowledge of aptitudes and interests to goal setting.

2.12 Use problem-solving and decision-making skills to assess progress toward educational goals.

2.13 Compare the relationship between classroom performance and success in school.

2.14 Consider postsecondary options consistent with interests, achievement, aptitude, and abilities.

3.01 Demonstrate the ability to balance school, studies, extracurricular activities, leisure time, and family life.

3.02 Seek co-curricular and community experiences to enhance the school experience.

3.03 Determine the relationship between learning and work.

3.04 Demonstrate an understanding of the value of lifelong learning as essential to seeking, obtaining, and maintaining life goals.

3.05 Demonstrate how school success is the preparation to make the transition from student to community member.

3.06 Communicate how school success and academic achievement enhance future career and vocational opportunities.

4.01 Develop skills to locate, evaluate, and interpret career information.

4.02 Evaluate traditional and non-traditional occupations.

4.03 Develop an awareness of personal abilities, skills, interests, and motivations.

4.04 Demonstrate how to interact and work cooperatively in teams.

4.05 Determine how to make decisions.

4.06 Explain how to set goals.

4.07 Explore the importance of planning.

4.08 Develop competency in areas of interest.

4.09 Develop hobbies and avocational interests.

4.10 Balance work and leisure time.

4.11 Acquire employability skills such as working on a team, problem-solving and organizational skills.

4.12 Apply job readiness skills to seek employment opportunities.

4.13 Demonstrate knowledge about the changing workplace.

4.14 Consider the rights and responsibilities of employers and employees.

4.15 Generate respect for individual uniqueness in the workplace.

4.16 Author a resume.

4.17 Develop a positive attitude toward work and learning.

4.18 Understand the importance of responsibility, dependability, punctuality, integrity, and effort in the workplace.

4.19 Utilize time-and-task management skills.

5.01 Apply decision-making skills to career planning, course selection, and career transition.

5.02 Identify personal skills, interests, and abilities and relate them to current career choices.

5.03 Demonstrate knowledge of the career planning process.

5.04 Indicate the various ways which occupations can be classified.

5.05 Use research and information resources to obtain career information.

5.06 Use the Internet to access career planning information.

5.07 Describe traditional and non-traditional occupations and how these relate to career choice.

5.08 Understand how changing economic and social needs influence employment trends and future training.

5.09 Demonstrate awareness of the education and training needed to achieve career goals.

5.10 Assess and modify educational plans to support career goals.

5.11 Use employability and job readiness skills in internship, mentoring, shadowing, and/or other world of work experiences.

5.12 Select course work that is related to career interests.

5.13 Maintain a career-planning portfolio.

6.01 Compare the relationship between educational achievement and career success.

6.02 Explain how work can help to achieve personal success and satisfaction.

6.03 Indicate personal preferences and interests which influence career choices and success.

6.04 Understand that the changing workplace requires lifelong learning and acquiring new skills.

6.05 Describe the effect of work on lifestyles.

6.06 Understand the importance of equity and access in career choice.

6.07 Understand that work is an important and satisfying means of personal expression.

6.08 Demonstrate how interests, abilities, and achievement relate to achieving personal, social, educational, and career goals.

6.09 Use conflict management skills with peers and adults.

6.10 Demonstrate how to work cooperatively with others as a team member.

6.11 Apply academic and employment readiness skills in work-based learning.

7.01 Develop a positive attitude toward self as a unique and worthy person.

7.02 Assess values, attitudes, and beliefs.

7.03 Communicate the goal setting process.

7.04 Document change as a part of growth.

7.05 Manage feelings.

7.06 Distinguish between appropriate and inappropriate behaviors.

7.07 Differentiate personal boundaries, rights, and privacy needs.

7.08 Establish self-control.

7.09 Demonstrate cooperative behavior in groups.

7.10 Document personal strengths and assets.

7.11 Anticipate changing personal and social roles.

7.12 Anticipate changing family roles.

7.13 Establish that everyone has rights and responsibilities.

7.14 Respect alternative points of view.

7.15 Recognize, accept, respect, and appreciate individual differences.

7.16 Recognize, accept, and appreciate ethnic and cultural diversity.

7.17 Respect differences in various family configurations.

7.18 Use effective communication skills.

7.19 Understand that communication involves speaking, listening, and nonverbal behavior.

7.20 Learn how to make and keep friends.

8.01 Use a decision-making and problem-solving model.

8.02 Understand consequences of decisions and choices.

8.03 Debate alternative solutions to a problem.

8.04 Develop effective coping skills for dealing with problems.

8.05 Demonstrate when, where, and how to seek help for solving problems and making decisions.

8.06 Use conflict resolution skills.

8.07 Demonstrate a respect and appreciation for individual and cultural differences.

8.08 Indicate when peer pressure is influencing a decision.

8.09 Calculate long and short term goals.

8.10 Evaluate alternative ways of achieving goals.

8.11 Use persistence and perseverance in acquiring knowledge and skills.

8.12 Develop an action plan to set and achieve realistic goals.

9.01 Demonstrate knowledge of personal information (i.e., telephone number, home address, emergency contact).

9.02 Account for the relationship between rules, laws, safety, and the protection of an individual's rights.

9.03 Compare the difference between appropriate and inappropriate physical contact.

9.04 Demonstrate the ability to assert boundaries, rights, and personal privacy.

9.05 Differentiate between situations requiring peer support and situations requiring adult professional help.

9.06 Assess resource people in the school and community, and know how to seek their help.

9.07 Apply effective problem-solving and decision-making skills to make safe and healthy choices.

9.08 Forecast the emotional and physical dangers of substance use and abuse.

9.09 Compare ways to cope with peer pressure.

9.10 Create techniques for managing stress and conflict.

9.11 Select coping skills for managing life events.