Self-awareness & Self-management Skills: 6th-8th 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 factors that cause stress both positive and negative. 

Identify physical and emotional reactions to stress.

Identify stress management skills that work best for them. Tell how prayer/reflection is helpful.

Distinguish between different emotions (e.g., fear and anger, shame and sadness).

Analyze emotional states that contribute to or detract from their ability to solve problems.

Demonstrate an ability to process emotions to facilitate problem-solving (e.g., overcome negativity, and develop a positive attitude).

Identify emotions Jesus experienced and compare these emotions to theirs.

Identify personal strengths and weaknesses and the effect they have on their choices.

Recognize the outside influences on development of personal characteristics (e.g., body image, self-esteem, behavior).

Evaluate the benefits of participating in extracurricular activities (e.g., friendship, leadership, learning new skills, teamwork).

Describe how adults at school and in the parish demonstrate caring and concern for students. Analyze the effort their family or other adults have made to support their success in school. 

Analyze how others in their life have helped them resist negative influences.

Reflect on a time when they overcame an obstacle to accomplish something that was important to them.

Reflect on a time when prayer guided them to make the right decision.

Tell how sacraments and parish community provide support for them.

Set a goal that they could expect to achieve in a month or two to improve some aspect of their school performance. 

Set a goal that they could achieve in a month or two related to an area of interest (e.g., a sport, hobby, musical instrument, etc.). 

Establish action steps and time frames toward the achievement of each goal.

Identify obstacles and brainstorm ways to overcome obstacles in achieving goals.

Implement strategies to achieve a goal. Establish action steps and time frames toward the achievement of this goal.

Evaluate their level of goal achievement, identifying factors that contributed or detracted from it.

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

Give examples of how their Catholic faith influences these goals.