Students demonstrate self-management by formulating and prioritizing short-term and long-term goals related to school, career, and personal life. They identify intermediate objectives to help them reach their goals.
CL5.1.g. Self-improvement
Students are committed to continual self-improvement. They seek and demonstrate the ability to constructively receive positive and negative feedback and to alter their attitudes and behavior in response to valid criticism. Students seek to improve their social and emotional skills and their chances of being happy and successful by identifying and eliminating bad habits, strengthening weak attributes, and developing positive traits such as self-discipline, conscientiousness, perseverance, resilience, and optimism.
CL5.1.f. Patience and poise
Students demonstrate the traits of patience and poise by enduring delay, discomfort, inconvenience, difficulty, annoyance, and provocation with composure and without complaint. They wait their turn quietly and control any impulse to act out in frustration.
CL5.1.e. Flexibility
Students recognize the potential of unexpected and undesirable changes that can cause distress and hinder their ability to perform (e.g., a new teacher in the middle of a semester, a death or divorce in the family). They demonstrate the trait of flexibility by adapting to changes and adjusting their attitudes, approaches, or actions in order to cope with and get the best possible result from the new situation.
CL5.1.d. Resilience and courage
Students demonstrate the traits of resilience and courage by maintaining a positive outlook, overcoming fear, and drawing on their inner strength to muster the will to bounce back from the pain and grief of personal traumas and tragedies, disappointments, failures, and misfortunes. They are able to put their negative experiences behind them and move forward with confidence and optimism.
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