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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