21.3-5.ES.1
Essential Concept and/or Skill: Communicate and work productively with others emphasizing collaboration and cultural awareness to produce quality work.
Work appropriately and productively with others.
- Set appropriate goals.
- Articulate thoughts and ideas clearly in writing and speaking.
- Demonstrate respectful behavior to group members.
- Exhibit appropriate behavior when faced with conflict.
- Identify strengths and weaknesses.
- Interact positively as a team member.
- Respect other’s ideas.
- Cooperate with others in a group setting.
- Acknowledge quality efforts of self and others.
Use different perspectives to increase innovation and the quality of work.
- Generate ideas with group members.
- Recognize the opinions and feelings of others.
- Appropriately accept constructive feedback.
Use appropriate principles of communication effectively.
- Are active listeners.
- Use information to make decisions.
- Ask appropriate questions.
- Read, understand and create information in a variety of forms.
- Follow directions.
- Use technology to communicate.
- Use various channels of communication.
- Express ideas.
21.3-5.ES.2
Essential Concept and/or Skill: Adjust to various roles and responsibilities and understand the need to be flexible to change.
Adapt to varied roles, responsibilities, and expectations.
- Work well independently and with others.
- Understand and accept mistakes as a natural part of learning.
- Complete tasks and projects.
- Identify the stages needed to complete a project or task.
- Develop an awareness of effective strategies to improve project or task completion.
- Listen with an open mind.
- Accept and appreciate diversity.
Works effectively in a climate of ambiguity and changing priorities.
- Understand that change occurs frequently.
- Demonstrate flexibility in adapting to change.
- Recognize different levels of structure.
- Work under pressure.
- Understand the need to adapt to changing requirements and information.
- Are open to change.
- Understand how to approach handling conflict using a win–win perspective.
Demonstrate appropriate risk–taking.
- Consider alternative or new ways to complete tasks.
- Identify alternative ways to achieve goals.
- Understand when to ask ‘What if?’
- Approach brainstorming with an open mind.
- Determine pros and cons of others’ suggestions.
21.3-5.ES.3
Essential Concept and/or Skill: Practice leadership skills, and demonstrate integrity, ethical behavior, and social responsibility in all activities.
Use interpersonal skills to influence and guide others toward a goal.
- Provide positive encouragement to others on their work.
- Relate positively to others.
- Understand methods to influence others towards goals.
- Understand how to listen to others and to share own ideas.
- Accept and offer constructive comments.
Leverage the strengths of others to accomplish a common goal.
- Demonstrate listening, speaking and questioning skills.
- Work as a member of a team to complete tasks.
- Acknowledge views and ideas of others.
- Understand the value of compromise.
Demonstrate integrity and ethical behavior.
- Take responsibility for own actions.
- Demonstrate trustworthiness and honesty.
- Identify important core values.
Demonstrate mental, physical, and emotional preparedness to accomplish the task.
- Identify and organizes materials required for the task.
- Show willingness to prepare and stays focused on task.
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Essential Concept and/or Skill: Demonstrate initiative, creativity, self–direction, and entrepreneurial thinking to produce successful outcomes.
Perform work without oversight.
- Assess the task and identify actions that must be taken.
- Understand cause–effect relationship in completing sequential steps.
- Understand that incomplete work is not acceptable.
- Understand the importance of self–confidence.
- Know how to access resources.
- Formulate solutions.
- Demonstrate commitment to self/group/society.
Use time efficiently to manage workload
- Segment task into steps.
- With guidance, create timelines to facilitate completion of tasks.
- With guidance, prioritize steps in proper order.
Assess mastery of skills.
- Understand the task.
- Identify skills needed to be successful at the task.
- Know when to share knowledge appropriately.
Set and achieve high standards and goals.
- Understand and write incremental steps toward accomplishing goals.
- Set short–term goals.
- Engage in activities to improve skills that are relative to goals.
- Explore core values of personal importance.
- Evaluate progress toward accomplishing goals.
Engage in effective problem solving process.
- With assistance, transfer and make connections learning from one content area to another.
- Understand the importance of key partners and resources in solving problems.
- Evaluate the resources in context of the problem.
- Apply problem solving techniques to various situations.
- Identify a course of action in order to solve the problem.
- Implement solution with follow–up.
21.3-5.ES.5
Essential Concept and/or Skill: Demonstrate productivity and accountability by producing quality work.
Deliver quality job performance on time.
- Produce quality work in a timely manner.
- Make revisions in work based on self–analysis and/or recommendations.
- Work with commitment to produce a quality product.
- Demonstrate ethical behavior and responsibility.
Demonstrate accountability for individual performance.
- Come to activities/work consistently and on time.
- Are prepared for all activities/work.
- Stay actively engaged when completing work.
- Are able to edit their work.
- Learn from mistakes.
- Are reliable co–workers in a group setting.