Indicators for elementary school students
PERSONAL AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
Develop understanding of self and maintain a positive self-concept.
- Describe aspects of self-concept.
- Identify interests, likes, and dislikes.
- Identify abilities, strengths, skills, and talents.
- Identify positive personal characteristics, such as honesty, dependability, responsibility, integrity, and loyalty.
- Identify work values and needs.
- Recognize that behaviors and attitudes affect the self-concept of others.
- Recognize that self-concept can affect educational achievement.
- Demonstrate a positive self-concept through behaviors and attitudes.
Develop positive interpersonal skills including respect for diversity.
- Recognize that one should accept responsibility for one's own behavior.
- Identify and demonstrate effective communication skills.
- Identify sources of outside pressure and demonstrate the ability to handle it.
- Demonstrate interaction with others that is honest, fair, helpful, and respectful.
- Demonstrate the ability to use positive social skills, such as good manners and showing gratitude.
- Demonstrate the ability to get along well with others and work effectively with them in groups.
- Demonstrate the ability to resolve conflicts and to negotiate acceptable solutions.
- Recognize the difference between appropriate and inappropriate behavior in specific school and social situations, and give examples of times when one's behavior was appropriate and times when one's behavior was inappropriate in specific school, social, and work situations.
- Recognize and demonstrate knowledge about, respect for, openness to, and appreciation for all kinds of human diversity.
Integrate personal growth and change into one's career development.
- Demonstrate good health habits.
Balance personal, leisure, community, learner, family and work roles.
- Recognize that people have many life roles.
- Recognize that people must balance life roles and that there are many ways to do it.
- Recognize that life roles and lifestyle are connected.
EDUCATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT AND LIFELONG LEARNING
Attain educational achievement and performance levels needed to reach personal and career goals.
- Recognize the importance of educational achievement and performance to the attainment of personal and career goals.
- Describe how personal attitudes and behaviors can impact educational achievement and performance.
- Recognize that educational achievement and performance can lead to many workplace options.
- Demonstrate acquisition of study skills and learning habits that promote educational achievement and performance.
- Have a plan to improve educational achievement and performance.
- Exhibit attitudes and behaviors that support educational achievement and performance.
CAREER MANAGEMENT
Create and manage a career plan that meets one's career goals.
- Recognize that career planning is a life long process.
- Identify short-term and long-term goals.
Use a process of decision-making as one component of career development.
- Identify the steps in one model of decision making.
- Identify alternative options and potential consequences for a specific decision.
- Recognize that personal priorities, culture, beliefs, and work values can affect decision-making.
- Describe how education, work, and family experiences might impact decisions.
Use accurate, current, and unbiased career information during career planning and management.
- Recognize that career information includes occupational, education and training, employment, and economic information and that there is a range of career information resources available.
- Identify several ways to classify occupations.
- Identify occupations to consider without regard to gender, race, culture, or ability.
- Demonstrate the ability to use different types of career information resources to support career planning.
Master academic, occupational, and general employability skills in order to prepare for work and education in the future.
- Describe academic, occupational, and general employability skills.
- Recognize that a variety of skills and personal qualities - such as critical thinking, problem solving, resource, information, and technology management, interpersonal skills, honesty, and dependability - are important to success in school and employment and demonstrate the attainment of these.
Integrate changing employment trends, societal needs, and economic conditions into career plans.
- Identify societal needs that affect career plans.
- Identify economic conditions that affect career plans.
These are adapted from the National Career Development Guidelines.