Life Skills Course

Life Skills course provides consistent parameters and expectations for conduct in our classrooms as well as on our school. It also ensures that all students are in an environment that encourages exploring, discovering, and learning. One or two LIFESKILLS will be introduced throughout our school each month. Students will arrive at common understandings of the meaning of each LIFESKILLS, and learn how to practice them.

 

TRUSTWORTHINESS: To act in a manner that makes one worthy of trust and confidence

TRUTHFULNESS: To act with personal responsibility and mental accountability

ACTIVE LISTENING: To listen attentively and with intention to understand

NO PUT-DOWNS: To never use words, actions, and /or body language that degrade, humiliate, or dishonor others

PERSONAL BEST: To do one’s best given the circumstances and available resources

CARING: To feel and show concern for others

COMMON SENSE: To use good judgment

COOPERATION: To work together toward a common goal or purpose

COURAGE: To act according to one’s beliefs despite fear of adverse consequences

CURIOSITY: A desire to investigate and seek understanding of one’s world

EFFORT: To do your best

FLEXIBILITY: To be willing to alter plans when necessary

FRIENDSHIP: To make and keep a friend through mutual trust and caring

INITIATIVE: To do something, of one’s own free will, because it needs to be done

INTEGRITY: To act according to a sense of what’s right

ORGANIZATION: To plan, arrange, and implement in an orderly way: to keep things orderly and ready to use

PATIENCE: To wait calmly for someone or something

PERSEVERANCE: To keep at it

PRIDE: Satisfaction from doing one’s personal best

PROBLEM SOLVING: To create solutions to difficult situations and everyday problems

RESOURCEFULNESS: To respond to challenges and opportunities in innovative and creative ways

RESPONSIBILITY: To respond when appropriate; to be accountable for one’s actions

SENSE OF HUMOR: To laugh and be playful without harming others