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ASW 10-2: Scholar Success Skills

Learning the Proper Skills and how to set goals to be Successful in Your Educational Journey

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1. Explore and Find Your Passions

  • Explore your interests
  • Don't overcommit
  • Focus on 1–2 activities
  • Show passion and leadership

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2. Learn for Growth, Not Just Your GPA

  • Be passionate about learning
  • Enjoy the journey of growth and discovery
  • Learn from successes and failures
  • See failure as an opportunity to grow
  • Appreciate your experiences and progress

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3. Time Management and Organization Skills

    • Remove distractions
    • Stay organized and use a calendar
    • Schedule study time
    • Build good habits
    • Avoid multitasking
    • Be on time and prepared
    • Prioritize important tasks
    • Practice self-care
    • Keep track of assignments

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*What’s something that works for you?

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4. Get Involved in Your Community

    • Strengthens resumes and college applications
    • Helps you focus on others
    • Improves well-being
    • Allows you to explore interests
    • Can inspire college majors and career paths
    • Passion can lead to academic success

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5. Utilize Your Resources –

Together we can move mountains!

    • Success is not achieved alone
    • Use available resources and support systems
    • Lean on family and friends
    • Explore high school honor societies

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7. Create Your Success Tips

6. Prioritize Your Health

  • Prioritize your physical and mental health
  • Exercise, eat well, and stay hydrated
  • Get enough sleep
  • Practice mindfulness
  • Take breaks from screens
  • Spend time with family and friends
  • Everyone's path to success is different
  • Create your own success strategies
  • Recognize your strengths and potential
  • Explore your interests and passions

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8. Empowerment vs. Challenge Perspective –

The Power of a Positive Attitude

Struggling Characteristics

    • Blames others for outcomes
    • Lacks motivation and action
    • Avoids help and feedback
    • Resists learning and change
    • Lets emotions control decisions
    • Struggles with confidence and self-belief

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8. Empowerment vs. Challenge Perspective –

The Power of a Positive Attitude

Successful Traits:

    • Takes personal responsibility
    • Stays self-motivated
    • Plans and manages goals
    • Builds supportive relationships
    • Practices self-awareness
    • Embraces lifelong learning
    • Manages emotions effectively
    • Believes in their abilities

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    • Howard Gardner’s 1983 theory of multiple intelligences simply states that everyone learns in a different way.
    • Discovering how you learn is key to becoming a successful scholar

9. Understanding How You Learn is Key!

https://testyourself.psychtests.com/testid/3103

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Goal Setting is Key to helping us Succeed

Why Set Goals?

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1. Setting goals gives you long-term vision and short-term motivation

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2. It Helps raise your self-confidence as you recognize your own ability and competence in achieving your goals.

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3. Top-level athletes, successful business people, and achievers in all fields set goals for success

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Golden Rules of Goal Setting:

Five Rules to set yourself up for success:

    • Set goals that motivate you
    • Use acronym models to set goals (see key point below)
    • Set goals in writing
    • Make an action plan
    • Stick with it!

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Short-Term & Long-Term

Goal Setting

  • A short-term goal is something you want to do in the near future.
  • Long-term goal - something you want to do further in the future.

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Habits to Change or Develop

The seven habits of successful people are:

      • Goal oriented
      • Results driven
      • Action oriented
      • People oriented
      • Health conscious
      • Honest
      • Self-disciplined

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Activity Worksheets or Personal Projects

  • Complete 1 short-term goal worksheet
  • Complete 1 long-term goal worksheet
  • Create a goal-oriented vision board
  • Use words, pictures, or magazine cutouts
  • Include your personal goals and ideas

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