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