Skills and Behaviors Important to School Success
Source: Pearson Allyn Bacon Prentice Hall
Topics: Middle Years (5-9), Preteen Years (9-13), Motivation and Achievement
- Confidence: The child has a sense of being successful and that adults will be helpful.
- Curiosity: The child has a sense that learning is positive and pleasurable.
- Intentionality: The child has a desire to and the capacity to have an impact and to act upon that with persistence.
- Self-control: The child can control personal actions in age-appropriate ways.
- Relatedness: The child can engage with others, can understand, and can be understood.
- Capacity to communicate: The child wants to and has the ability to communicate.
- Cooperativeness: The child has the ability to balance own needs with those of others in a group activity.
Adapted from Zero to Three, 1992.
Excerpted From:
Excerpt from Assessment of Children & Youth with Special Needs, by L.G. Cohen & L.J. Spenciner, 2007 edition, p. 318.
© 2007, Merrill, an imprint of Pearson Education Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
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