Second Grade Competencies
The following student competencies will be developed through classroom guidance lessons led by the counselor
Second grade students will:
- Develop hobbies and vocational interests
- Identify personal skills, interests and abilities and relate them to current career choice
- Demonstrate awareness of the education and training needed to achieve career goals
- Understand the relationship between educational achievement and career success
- Learn how to use conflict management skills with peers and adults
- Identify values, attitudes and beliefs
- Recognize personal boundaries, rights and privacy needs
- Recognize, accept and appreciate ethnic and cultural diversity
- Know that communication involves speaking, listening and nonverbal behavior
- Identify alternative solutions to a problem
- Develop effective coping skills for dealing with problems
- Know how to apply conflict-resolution skills
- Know when peer pressure is influencing a decision
- Learn about the relationship between rules, laws, safety and the protection of rights of the individual
- Learn about the emotional and physical dangers of substance use and abuse
- Learn techniques for managing stress and conflict