Sec 3 PCME16 July 2014

DILIGENT & CAPABLE

PERFORMER

Lesson Objectives

Students will be able to learn to

strive for excellence; gives best effort demonstrate initiative and self-discipline know standards of quality and take pride in work set personal goals and assesses progress persevere in the face of difficulties

Characteristics of diligent and capable performers

• Strive for excellence; gives best effort• Demonstrate initiative and self-discipline• Know standards of quality and take pride in work• Set personal goals and assesses progress• Persevere in the face of difficulties

Performance Character

Performance character is a mastery orientation. It consists of some of these character strengths:DiligenceStrong work ethicsA positive attitudePerseveranceIngenuitySelf-discipline

Performance character is needed to realize one’s potential for excellence in school, the work place or any other area of endeavour.

Performance Character determines what we do with our natural ability

Research on talent development in teens finds that adolescents who are more successful than equally gifted peers in developing their natural talent to a high level have a stronger achievement and endurance

orientation, better goal-setting skills and work habits.

Importance of having an ambition

• Adolescents can use their ambition like a compass to help chart a life course and to provide direction for spending their time and energy.

• Ambitions can increase the chances that adolescents will take schoolwork seriously and view their success as the product of hard work.

• Ambitions developed during adolescence have lifelong significance.

Study skills

Research finds that students who improve their study skills such as preparation for lessons, organising of their work, time management, note-taking, thinking &consolidating of learning for tests show significant improvement in their learning.

Level of Academic Functioning – The Leader to Detractor Scale

Five Performance Areas:1. Attendance, Preparedness & Attitude2. Healthy Habits of Learning3. Demonstration of Learning 4. Intellectual Work ethics5. Role in Group Work

Level of Academic Functioning – The Leader to Detractor Scale

Level Descriptions5 (Leader)

Demonstrates personal commitment and mastery, and encourages others by word and deed to do the same.

3 (Participants)

Carries out responsibilities in an adequate way, but does not take on a leadership role.

1 (Detractor)

Doesn’t meet the standards personally, and detracts from others meeting the standards.

Level 5 for Attendance, Preparedness & Attitude

• Always prepared for lessons; • functions with intensity and stamina; • advances the goals of the class through

personal contributions• assisting others in these areas.

Level 5 for Healthy Habits of Learning

• Demonstrates exemplary habits in organizing his work,

• exemplary time managements skills;• note-taking skills; • actively assists others in these areas.

Level 5 forDemonstration of Learning

• Demonstrates mastery of course requirements at highest level including ease and flexibility of using expected learner outcomes;

• assists others in these areas.

Level 5 forIntellectual Work ethics

• Demonstrate strong persistence, dedication, curiosity, and enthusiasm for individual academic pursuits;

• encourage the development of these qualities in others.

Level 5 forRole in Group Work

• Demonstrates teamwork, initiative and willingness to work with others;

• Demonstrates the ability to organize and lead group towards stated goals;

• Encourages team work and leadership in others.

The Contract for Increasing Commitment

• Aims to guide students to reflect on personal habits and set personal goals, thereby work towards self-improvement.

• The contract is to be submitted to FT for use during chit-chat session, and will be returned to students after the chit-chat session.

Contract for Increasing Commitment

1. What can I do to be more successful at school? ________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________

2. What is my plan for making more of an effort to be more successful?

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3. What obstacles or difficulties might keep me from making my plan a success?

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4. What are some ways I can avoid these obstacles or overcome them if they occur?

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5. How might my teachers, or other people at this school, help me to be successful with my plan? _______________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________

6. What are some fair consequences if I don’t follow through with my commitment? ________________________________________________________________

7. What are some appropriate ways I can celebrate the fulfillment of my commitment? ________________________________________________________________

___________________ _____________ Signature Date

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