Helping Students Develop Career Readiness Skills
Critical thinking, adaptability, resilience, and innovation are just some of the necessary skills students need to succeed in college or their careers. Unfortunately, many students don’t develop them today. What if there was a straightforward way to teach students resilience, problem-solving, and other career readiness skills? That’s why we used the research conducted by the National Association of State Directors of Career Technical Education Consortium to design one of the Habitudes courses – Habitudes for Career Ready Students – to be used as a college and career readiness course.
Practical Lessons Plans
The Habitudes college and career readiness program, along with our career readiness lesson plans, uses image-based learning to help teachers engage with students. Each Habitude image introduces young adults to powerful leadership principles rooted in real life, sparking conversations with facilitators that lead to memorable experiences. These unique and transformative encounters are a part of an ongoing process that builds the leadership habits and attitudes that graduating students need for life beyond high school.
Habitudes for Career Ready Students helps teach students how to:
Habitudes Case Study:
Nebraska Department of Education
Watch how the Habitudes Career Readiness program has helped prepare students throughout the state of Nebraska.
Freshmen courses and programs
After-school programs
Senior capstone courses
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.
What’s Included in Habitudes
Our college and career readiness curriculum includes access to the following resources:
Flexible Lesson Plans
Teaching Videos
Slide Decks
Group Activities
Posters
Student Worksheets
Results Schools Have Seen While Using Habitudes
The following results have been reported by schools who have used Habitudes:
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
400% increase in student-initiated clubs
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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 lesson plans of our character education program teach character development in a way that is relevant and engaging for today’s students. Our social-emotional learning (SEL) curriculum offers more specific guidance for teaching social and emotional skills. 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.