Sixth Grade Competencies
The following student competencies will be developed through classroom guidance lessons led by the counselor
Sixth Grade Students will:
- Seek information and support from faculty, staff, family, and peers
- Organize and apply academic information from a variety of sources
- Use knowledge of learning styles to positively influence school performance
- Apply knowledge of aptitudes and interests to goal setting
- Identify post-secondary options consistent with interests, achievement, aptitude and abilities
- Seek co-curricular and community experiences to enhance the school experience
- Demonstrate an understanding of the value of lifelong learning as essential to seeking, obtaining and maintaining life goals
- Understand that school success is the preparation to make the transition from student to community member
- Develop skills to locate, evaluate and interpret career information
- Understand the importance of planning
- Pursue and develop competency in areas of interest
- Acquire employability skills such as working on a team and problem-solving and organizational skills
- Understand the importance of responsibility, dependability, punctuality, integrity and effort in the workplace
- Identify long- and short-term goals
- Identify alternative ways of achieving goals
- Develop an action plan to set and achieve realistic goals
- Learn coping skills for managing life events