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Student Success Skills: Strategies for Academic Excellence & Wellness

Focus on goal setting, test anxiety, healthy optimism, and managing emotions. Learn strategies for academic success & personal well-being. Improve grades, study skills, and relationships.

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Student Success Skills: Strategies for Academic Excellence & Wellness

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  1. STUDENT SUCCESS SKILLS

  2. STUDENT SUCCESS SKILLS As I look back on 1st quarter, I wish I would have known then, what I know now…

  3. Student Success Skills: We Focus on Five Things Goal setting and progress monitoring Creating a caring, supportive and encouraging classroom Cognitive/Memory skills Performing under pressure: Managing test anxiety Building Healthy Optimism

  4. 7th Grade Mini Meeting Survey Results

  5. 7th Grade Mini Meeting Survey Results 32% of students said biggest concern was failing grades. 23% said biggest concern was completing homework 17% of students said biggest concern was with having study skills and organization

  6. 7th Grade Mini Meeting Survey Results 32% of students biggest concern was difficulty with angry feelings 24% of students biggest concern was being teased or bullied at school 20% of students biggest concern was feelings of sadness or depression

  7. 7th Grade Mini Meeting Survey Results

  8. So, What is in it for Me? • Makes learning easier • Spring standardized tests easier • Look forward to coming to class • Learn strategies to make learning easier • Learn to manage anxiety so you will do better on tests • Have better relationships with peers • Be happier and feel better

  9. Caring CommunityLook, Sound & Feel Like… Take 2-3 minutes and reflect on your journal page what this class would Look… Sound… Feel… like if we were caring, supportive and encouraging.

  10. One of the greatest predictors of student academic success is their level of healthy optimistic thinking. Seligman (1995).

  11. Optimism • Don’t doubt your ability

  12. Optimism – 3 Questions • Is it personal? (temporary) • Is it pervasive? (spreading) • Is it permanent? (forever)

  13. The Pessimist • It’s me. I can’t learn this math. (it’s personal) • I’m stupid. I’m not good at learning. (it’s pervasive) • I’m never going to get this stuff. (it’s permanent)

  14. The Optimist • It’s not my ability, its my strategy, my study plan, etc. (not personal) • It’s just one test, I’ll bring it up on the next one. (not pervasive) • It’s just a temporary setback (not permanent)

  15. Connect the dots with four lines without lifting your pencil.

  16. If what you’re doing isn’t working – pick a new strategy

  17. Optimism Chant • Don’t doubt your ability • Doubt your strategy • Try something different

  18. Sometimes it is all about how you see things.

  19. We may need to change our perspective.

  20. Kaizen • Japanese • Small, seemingly insignificant improvement • Continuous and never ending improvement • The ability to notice even very small improvements in ourselves and also in others

  21. Kaizen Little by little, Bit by bit, I’m improving, Everyday

  22. Goal Setting for Health & Wellness • Think, Write, Pair Share & Volunteer Share GOAL: To improve what I eat this week. ACTION PLAN: I am going to cut back to one soda per day and eat a piece of fresh fruit each day.

  23. G.L.A.D. G – One Gratitude that you’re thankful for today. L – One new thing you Learned today. A – One small Accomplishment you did today. D – One thing of Delight that touched you today.

  24. Looking Ahead… • Skills for next lesson: • Life Skills • Listening with Eyes, Ears & Heart • Seven Keys to Course Mastery • Safe Place • Breathe, Picture, Focus • Memory Pegs

  25. Take A Break – Brain Gym

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