Supporting Students for Success

At Global Village Middle School, we cultivate the following attitudes in our students.

• Belief in the development of the whole self, including a healthy balance of mental, social/emotional, and physical well-being
• Self-confidence in one’s ability to succeed
• Sense of belonging in the school
• Understanding that post-secondary education and life-long learning are necessary for long-term career success
• Belief in using their abilities to their fullest to achieve high academic achievement and outcomes
• Positive attitude toward work and learning

The following articulate the learning strategies, self-management skills, and social skills that must be cultivated and demonstrated/used by middle school students in order to be successful.

Learning Strategies:

• Demonstrate critical thinking skills to make informed decisions
• Demonstrate creativity
• Use time-management, organizational, and study skills
• Apply self-motivation and self-direction to learning
• Apply media and technology skills
• Set high standards of quality
• Identify long- and short-term academic, career, and social/emotional goals
• Actively engage in challenging coursework
• Gather evidence and consider multiple perspectives to make informed decisions
• Participate in enrichment and extracurricular activities

Self-Management Skills:

• Demonstrate ability to assume responsibility
• Demonstrate self-disciple and self-control
• Demonstrate ability to work independently
• Demonstrate ability to delay immediate gratification for long-term rewards
• Demonstrate perserverance to achieve long- and short-term goals
• Demonstrate ability to overcome barriers to learning
• Demonstrate effective coping skills when faced with a problem
• Demonstrate the ability to balance school, home, and community activities
• Demonstrate personal safety skills
• Demonstrate ability to manage transitions and ability to adapt to changing situations and responsibilities

Social Skills

• Use effective oral and written communication skills and listening skills
• Create positive and supportive relationships with other students
• Create positive and supportive relationships with other students
• Create relationships with adults that support success
• Demonstrate empathy
• Demonstrate ethical decision-making and social responsibility
• Use effective collaboration and cooperation skills
• Use leadership and teamwork skills to work effectively in diverse teams
• Demonstrate advocacy skills and ability to assert self, when necessary
• Demonstrate social maturity and behaviors appropriate to the situation and environment