Self-awareness & Self-management Skills-3rd-5th Grade

Develop self-awareness and self-management skills to achieve school and life success.

Identify and manage one’s emotions and behavior. Recognize the effect your Catholic faith has on your emotions and behaviors.

Recognize personal qualities and external supports. Recognize your individual gifts and the support you get from your Catholic community.

Demonstrate skills related to achieving personal and academic goals. Recognize how your Catholic faith helps you set and achieve goals.

Identify a range of emotions they have experienced.

Describe situations that trigger various emotions (e.g., listening to music, talking to a friend, taking a test, being scolded). 

Use “I-statements” to express various emotions.

Explain how their behavior affects others.

Demonstrate emotions in various contexts, e.g., sadness, anger, disappointment, etc.

Describe positive strategies for handling conflict; include prayer/reflection as one strategy.

Practice ways of dealing with upsetting situations (e.g., being left out, losing, rejection, being teased).

Practice handling pressure situations (e.g., taking a test, participating in a competitive activity).

List ways their faith helps them deal with their emotions and conflicts.

Identify something they would like to be able to do better.

Describe how they would improve your ability to perform a valued skill.

Identify reliable adults from whom they would seek help in various situations (e.g., parents, teachers, parish staff).

Describe a time and situation they needed help. 

Describe how peers can support each other in school.

Practice strategies that support others.

Discuss how they turn to God for support.

Tell how prayer, sacraments, and the parish community provide support for them.

Differentiate between short and long term goals. 

Develop a friendship goal and monitor progress with action steps to be taken by certain dates.

Develop an academic goal and monitor progress with action steps to be taken by certain dates.

Monitor progress on planned action steps for a friendship goal and an academic goal. 

Identify how obstacles have been overcome in achieving a goal (e.g., examples from literature, social science, personal experience). 

Evaluate what they might have done differently to achieve greater success on a recent goal.

Tell how prayer and the sacraments help them achieve their goals. 

List three goals that help make them better Catholics.