Self+Direction


 * Definition: Students will acquire and use fundamental skills that are necessary for learning to occur and for lifelong success. Students:**
 * Demonstrate flexibility and adaptability by applying what they learn to a variety of situations.
 * Collect data to track their own progress to monitor and adjust their learning strategies.
 * Exhibit productivity and accountability when they complete products on time to express learning.
 * Show leadership and responsibility when they actively participate in school, district and community activities.
 * Show respect for differing opinions, interests and experiences.
 * Make environmentally responsible choices.
 * Set challenging personal goals.
 * Reflect on their own learning and refocus their efforts accordingly.


 * Life and Career Skills encompass the following:**
 * Flexibility & Adaptability
 * Students change their inquiry focus, questions, resources, or strategies when necessary to achieve success.
 * Students can apply what they have learned to a variety of situations.
 * Initiative & Self-Direction
 * Students collect data to track their own progress on class assignments and/or assessments, including CSAP tests.
 * Students set goals for their own achievement.
 * Students set specific goals for upcoming assignments and/or assessments.
 * Students develop timelines for projects
 * Productivity & Accountability
 * Students complete products to express learning.
 * Students meet timelines for projects
 * Leadership & Responsibility
 * Students Present ideas to others in different settings
 * Students Participate on teams to complete projects
 * Students participate in school- and district-level organizations, committees, activities, clubs, and/or sports.
 * Social Skills
 * teach, pre-teach, and re-teach how students are expected to behave in specific situations (Boys Town model).
 * students respect differing interests and experiences of others
 * " Green " Literacy
 * Students recycle in the classroom
 * students analyze home energy bills
 * Students and teachers utilize online learning tools to reduce the amount of paper used in learning
 * Personal & Aesthetic Growth
 * Students pursue their own interest in literature
 * Students recognize their own need for more information and research
 * Students participate in the social exchange of ideas
 * Students seek to go beyond academic requirements
 * Goal-Setting
 * Students choose their own products for presentations
 * Students assist in creating rubrics used to judge class products/presentations
 * Self-Assessment & Reflection
 * students give feedback on lessons (plus/delta, stars/wishes)
 * Students evaluate their own learning to refocus their efforts

See: Integrating the 16 Habits of Mind