Guidance Standards

Learning To Live

Grades 6 – 8

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1. Students will understand and appreciate self.

· Recognize and explain the relationship of

physical, emotional, and intellectual

changes and the effects on self-concept

and control.

4. Students will develop a sense of community.

· Identify resource people in the school and the

community and know how to seek help.

· Demonstrate an understanding of different

cultures, attitudes, and abilities.

5. Students will make decisions, set goals, and

take actions.

· Use decision-making skills.

· Apply effective problem solving and

decision-making skills to make appropriate

and responsible choices.

Learning To Work

Grades 6 – 8

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1.Students will understand the relationships

among personal qualities, education and training,

and the world of work.

· Identify personal interests and abilities.

· Describe how responsibility and

punctuality in school relate to the world of

work.

· Identify aptitudes, interests and strengths

through career assessments and/or

checklists.

· Explain the relationship between personal

qualities, school success, life-style, and

career choices.

· Identify a variety of traditional and

nontraditional occupations.

experience.

Learning To Learn

Grades 6 – 8

1. Students will acquire knowledge, skills and

attitudes, which contribute to effective

learning in school and across the life span.

· Demonstrate increased responsibility for

learning independently.

· Demonstrate decision-making and goalsetting

skills.

· Recognize how studying influences

learning and how attitudes influence what

they achieve.

· Explain and develop personal capabilities

and cooperation in learning with others.

· Relate how character traits have an effect

on career and educational choices.

2. Students will employ strategies to achieve

school success.

· Locate and use available academic

resources (computers, books, television,

teachers).

· Increase knowledge of personal interests

and aptitude.

· Identify and use available resources to

explore post-secondary education

possibilities.

· Develop a tentative education plan and

career plan to be reviewed each year.

3. Students will understand the relationship

of academics to the world of work and to

life at home and in the community.

· Explain the value of cooperation and

teamwork and display the ability to

work in teams as well as independently.

· Explain and demonstrate the role of a

good citizen in middle school.

· Describe and relate the relationship

between work and learning, and the

importance of lifelong learning.

· Analyze and explain how educational

performance relates to achievement of

goals.

· Seek and participate in co-curricular

and community opportunities to

enhance the school learning experience.