21.6-8.ES.1
Essential Concept and/or Skill: Communicate and work productively with others, considering different perspectives, and cultural views to increase the quality of work.
Work appropriately and productively with others
- Set and evaluate goals
- Effectively communicate with group
- Demonstrate respectful behavior to group member ideas and opinions
- Manage and resolve conflict as appropriate
- Understand roles in group interaction
- Identify their own strengths and determines how their strengths will work toward the group goal
- Contribute to a team by expressing ideas
- Respect other’s ideas in a group dynamic
- Collaborate with others toward a common goal
- Acknowledge own and other’s good efforts
Use different perspectives to increase innovation and the quality of work
- Gather input from all group members
- Understand the opinions and feelings of others
- Accept and provide feedback in a constructive and considerate manner
Use appropriate principles of communication effectively
- Listen to understand and appreciate the points of view of others
- Listen to understand the ideas of others
- Process information in order to make an informed decision
- Ask appropriate questions in seeking clarification
- Read, understand and create information in a variety of forms
- Follow directions
- Contribute by expressing ideas
- Use appropriate technology to communicate
- Use appropriate channels of communication
21.6-8.ES.2
Essential Concept and/or Skill: Adapt and adjust to various roles and responsibilities in an environment of change
Adapt to varied roles, responsibilities, and expectations
- Work well independently and with a team
- Accept and own mistakes as a part of learning
- Carry out tasks and projects to completion
- Understand that projects or tasks can be broken down into stages and assessed throughout
- Identify effective strategies to improve project or task
- Listen to other points of view
- Accept and appreciate diversity
Work effectively in a climate of ambiguity and changing priorities
- Accept that change occurs frequently
- Understand focus may need to change as circumstances in the situation change
- Recognize the need for different levels of structure
- Identify appropriate responses to stress
- Adapt to changing requirements and information
- Demonstrate openness and respond constructively to change
- Understand conflict resolution from win-win perspective
Demonstrate appropriate risk-taking
- Embrace innovation
- Identify and suggest alternative ways to achieve goals
- Asks ’What if?’
- Understand brainstorming as a free exchange of ideas
- Weigh pros and cons of others' suggestions
21.6-8.ES.3
Essential Concept and/or Skill: Demonstrate leadership, integrity, ethical behavior, and social responsibility in all environments
Use interpersonal skills to influence and guide others toward a goal
- Positively support the work of others
- Build relationships
- Understand roles and responsibilities needed to accomplish goals
- Use active listening and speaking skills
- Understand the benefits of constructive feedback vs. criticism
Leverage the strengths of others to accomplish a common goal
- Communicate clearly
- Collaborate on structured tasks
- Show sensitivity to others’ views and ideas
- Understand how to create consensus
Demonstrate integrity and ethical behavior
- Take ownership for actions
- Demonstrate trustworthiness and honesty in all environments
- Demonstrate the use of core values
Demonstrate mental, physical, and emotional preparedness to accomplish tasks
- Keep own materials organized and gathers materials needed for the task
- Prepare for and focuses and the task with enthusiastic anticipation
21.6-8.ES.4
Essential Concept and/or Skill: Demonstrate initiative, self-direction, creativity, and entrepreneurial thinking while exploring individual talents and skills necessary to be successful
Perform work without oversight
- Assess the task and identify the priority/necessary actions to be taken
- Understand the task’s relationship to greater goal
- Understand that incomplete work-- even if excellent--is not acceptable
- Understand the importance of self-confidence
- Find appropriate resources
- Implement solutions
- Demonstrate commitment to self/group/society
Use time efficiently to manage workload
- Segment task into logical steps
- Build a timeline to facilitate completion of the task
- Prioritize steps in proper order
Assess mastery of skills
- Analyze the task
- Identify the breadth of knowledge to be successful at a task
- Effectively share knowledge at appropriate times
Set and achieve high standards and goals
- Identify incremental steps for acquiring goals
- Set short-term and long-term goals
- Create a written plan toward accomplishing goals
- Choose to engage in activities to improve skills that are relative to goals
- Demonstrate core values
- Evaluate progress and seek assistance to take corrective action when necessary when working toward accomplishing goals
Engage in effective problem solving process
- Transfer learning from one content area to another
- Identify key partners and resources relevant to the situation/problem
- Evaluate and select the resources in context of the problem
- Implement the problem solving process, including identifying potential causes of problem
- Identify a course of action in writing with sequence of steps involved in order to solve the problem
- Implement solution
21.6-8.ES.5
Essential Concept and/or Skill: Demonstrate productivity and accountability while aspiring to meet high expectations
Deliver quality job performance on time
- Know that quality means meeting high expectations, including timeliness
- Make revisions based on self-analysis
- Work with commitment until the expectations are met
- Make needed adjustments to prevent problems
- Do not compromise ethical behavior and responsibility
Demonstrate accountability for individual performance
- Demonstrate individual responsibility to be present and on time for all activities
- Stay productive when completing work
- Are willing to help others when own work is completed
- Accept responsibility for and correct their errors
- Learn from mistakes and creates solutions
- Follow through with assigned work within a group