Life Skills
Helping Middle and High School Students In Developing Life Skills
Self-awareness, impulse control, empathy, teamwork, and responsible decision-making are just some of the social emotional skills that help students succeed in and out of school. Unfortunately, many students aren’t developing them. What if there was a straightforward way to teach students empathy and encourage emotional development? That’s why we created Habitudes for Developing Life Skills to teach social skills to middle and high school youths.
Habitudes for Developing Life Skills Curriculum Lesson Plan Options:
Developing Life Skills Lesson Plans
The Habitudes for Developing Life Skills curriculum uses memorable imagery, real-life stories and practical experiences to teach timeless emotional skills in a way that is relevant to students today. Students are constantly using images to communicate via emojis, Instagram, and Snapchat. Why not utilize their favorite language to bridge the gap between learning and real-life application as part of your Developing Life Skills learning program?
Our SEL curriculum helps middle and high school students:
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Freshmen courses and programs
After-school programs
Senior capstone courses
What’s Included in Habitudes
Our Habitudes for Developing Life Skills includes access to the following teaching resources:
Flexible Lesson Plans
Teaching Videos
Slide Decks
Group Learning Activities
Posters
Student Worksheets
What Topics Are Covered
Habitudes for Developing Life Skills aligns with CASEL’s core competencies and covers topics such as:
LIST OF ALL TOPICS
| Middle School Edition | High School Edition | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Identifying Emotions | Self-Motivation | ||
| Accurate Self-Perception | Goal Setting | ||
| Recognizing Strengths | Organization Skills | ||
| Self-Efficacy | Impulse Control | ||
| Impulse Control | Stress Management | ||
| Stress Management | Self-Discipline | ||
| Self-Discipline | Identifying Emotions | ||
| Perspective-Taking | Accurate Self-Perception | ||
| Respect for Others | Recognizing Strengths | ||
| Social Engagement | Self-Confidence | ||
| Relationship Building | Self-Efficacy | ||
| Evaluating Decisions | |||
| Ethical Responsibility |
The work of Tim Elmore, and the Growing Leaders team is having a very profound impact on our school. We use the Habitudes curriculum on a regular basis, and the images have already gained a foothold as an integral part of our work with our students.
We are seeing students from all demographics, engage in the Habitudes lessons, and having conversations on how to prepare for their life ahead of them.
Habitudes is the most excellent program for first year students and beyond. It is a program that encourages and teaches deeper thinking and dialogue.
I encourage schools, and school districts to partner with Growing Leaders to help both educators and students to enhance their leadership skills. They have inspired our teacher-leaders, applying the Habitudes to R. everyday classroom situation's.
As a university dean, I believe anyone who cares about the future of this generation should digest the materials from Tim Elmore and growing leaders. He understands what students need, and how to deliver it in a relevant fashion.
One of the biggest things that habitudes has helped with is preparing our students to be a career and college ready upon graduation. Habitude helped each student become a better person and have a big picture perspective
Habitudes has it all. It has the implementation of why were doing this and the why behind 'you should have integrity'. We have found something that the kids are hooked on immediately.
Thank you so much for your investment at Virginia Tech. We appreciate your tremendous work with our student athletes, coaches, staff, and faculty. Simply put you have helped us grow and become better as a department.
No one teaches leadership better than Tim Elmore. The Habitudes are an outstanding way to teach and learn leadership. I recommend Tim as a teacher and a mentor, and I recommend Habitudes to anyone.
Results Schools Have Seen While Using Habitudes
The following results have been reported by schools who have used the Habitudes social skills curriculum:
300% Increase in Student Leadership Team
45% increase in community service hours per students
400% increase in student-initiated clubs
11% decrease in disciplinary incidents
60% decrease in fights
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WITH HABITUDES, YOU WILL BE EQUIPPED TO:
- Empower your teachers with easy-to-implement conversations that students will love.
- Build a culture of leadership, ownership, and resilience on your campus.
- Meet your state or district-level requirements for student soft-skill development.
Explore Other Habitudes Programs
Growing Leaders offers multiple specialized programs for teaching middle and high school students valuable life skills. The practical lessons plans of our character education program teaches character development in a way that is relevant and engaging for today’s students. Develop critical leadership skills with the high school leadership program for students already exhibiting an interest in leadership, like those in student government, student ambassadors, and other leadership clubs. When graduation approaches, use our college and career lesson plans to equip young adults for the transition by developing critical skills like resilience and problem-solving.