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Skills to Ensure Success
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By Carrie Suchy
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I have reached a specific point, as a general education teacher, in which I feel desperate to figure out what I can do to help my students succeed in school.   Having little control over family situations such as; divorce, lack of parental or family support, and low income I have had to struggle to build a stable connection between home and school environments.  My goal is to help each of my students understand that they have the power to create their own future, despite family environment and issues that are enabling them to become successful. I have spent hours of reading and researching many methods to help me understand that I can make a difference. I am integrating some of these strategies in my classroom this year.  I have already seen positive results, and these results have motivated me to take additional necessary steps such as educating teachers and parents of my strategies.  I have the passion and desire to develop these strategies into greater detailed lessons.  Lack of parental support and learning about family situations this year inspired me to read, research, and apply necessary skills to help my students begin to understand they have the power to become successful.

  • Inspired by students in my third grade class that have little to no motivation to tackle the over-whelming and demanding curriculum in the year of 2008.
Program Objective/Overview: to help foster motivation in young children by creating a passion for their desires, instilling an excitement for life, and help them develop a “Definitive Aim” for a successful future.
 
If students fail to meet expected grade level outcomes/achievement in a general education classroom environment, then these lessons may help them achieve success at each grade level.
 
1. 1st strategy: Self-Confidence: This lesson will teach the student how to develop self- confidence. This lesson will help children understand the six basic fears in life and give them skills necessary to help overcome those fears. It will also help to encourage students to take risks and try something new. (1) (2) (3)
 
2. 2nd strategy: Enthusiasm: this lesson will teach the student skills to foster a “pleasing personality” which can help influence others to co-operate with them. (1) (2)
 
3. 3rd strategy- Concentration: This lesson will teach the student to concentrate on one subject at a time until the subject is mastered. It also teaches students to apply practical learning knowledge and works to aid the student to practice skills learned to further their owndesires. (3)
 
3. 4th strategy: Definite Chief Aim- This lesson will teach the student to choose a goal: 1 long term and three short-term goals and learning skills necessary to help accomplish the goals. (2)
- This lesson consists of making a “VISION” board. Students will be required to purchase the book, “ The Secret.” (4)
 
4. 5th strategy Imagination: This lesson teaches the student to use his/her imagination to it’s full potential. By children/ young adults using their imagination they can focus on what they want, and apply these skills to get the object of their desire. (1) (3) (4)
 
5. 6th strategy: Co-operation: this lesson teaches helps children/young adults understand the value of teamwork and how to apply teamwork to help create success in their life. (3) It will help them to understand the value in co-operation over competition. (3)
 
6. 7th strategy: Practicing the Golden Rule- This lesson teaches the students to make good choices in life that can create harmony among family and friends. (4) 

References

1. "Positively You" Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life
     Jinger Heath, Golden Books, 1998
 
2. "The Laws of Success in Sixteen Lessons Volume 1 Lessons 1-7
      Napolean Hill, Ralston University Press, 1928
 
3. "The Laws of Success in Sixteen Lessons Volume 2 Lessons 8-16
      Napolean Hill, Ralston University Press, 1928
 
4. "The Secret" Rhonda Byrnes, 2006

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