Grade Level: Grade 6

Goal 1: Skills for Learning
The student acquires the attitudes, knowledge, aptitudes, and skills that contribute to effective learning in school.

The student will:

1. Demonstrate knowledge of services provided by various school staff.
2. Identify situations in which he/she needs to ask for help.
3. Identify support system for academic and interpersonal issues that may arise at school.
4. Identify one's learning style in relation to the seven multiple intelligences.

Goal 2: School Success
The student employs strategies to achieve success in school.

The student will:

1. Participate in a discussion of strategies for meeting the challenges of the middle school environment.
2. Examine the impact of pressure and stress on problem solving.
3. Explore the risks, benefits, and consequences of decision making.
4. Practice a technique for making decisions.

Goal 3: Academics to Life Success
The student understands the relationship of academics to the world of work and to life at home and in the community.
The student will:

1. Become aware of the relationship of academic performance to future educational choices.
2. Classify individual interests and abilities as they relate to career goals.
3. Use time management techniques in handling homework responsibilities.

Goal 4: Investigate Careers
The student acquires the skills to investigate the world of work in relation to knowledge of self and to make career choices.

The student will:

1. Describe skills related to specific occupations.
2. Investigate the implications of sex role stereotyping in career planning.
3. Describe how career development is a continuous process within a series of choices.
4. Demonstrate the relationship between career and school subjects.

Goal 5: Career Success
Students will employ strategies to achieve future career success and satisfaction.

The student will:

1. Define elements of career satisfaction.
2. Identify traditional and nontraditional occupations as they relate to career choice.
3. Explain how changing economy and technology influence employment opportunities.

Goal 6: Relationship Between School and Work
The student will understand the relationship between personal qualities, education and training in the world of work.

The student will:

1. Compare the effect of personal characteristics on career success.
2. Discuss how gaining more knowledge increases options.
3. Report on how the amount of education needed for different occupational levels varies.

Goal 7: Respect Self and Others
The student acquires the knowledge, attitudes, and interpersonal skills to help understand and respect self and others.

The student will:

1. Demonstrate an awareness of the negative aspect of cliques.
2. Illustrate the positive impact one's actions have on others.
3. Summarize the factors of influencing effective friendships.

Goal 8: Goal Setting and Attainment
The student makes decisions, goal sets, and takes action.

The student will:

1. Apply appropriate personal and interpersonal decisions using a decision-making/problem-solving model.
2. Explain the importance of goal setting.
3. Develop effective coping skills for dealing with problems.

Goal 9: Survival and Safety Skills
The student understands safety and survival skills.

The student will:

1. Identify when peer pressure is influencing a decision.
2. Explain the difference between appropriate and inappropriate physical contact.
3. Discuss the effects and consequences of decision-making when it comes to peer pressure.