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Mod 7: Setting and Achieving Long-term Goals | School-Connect

PREVIEW S-C 4.0:
Mod 7: Setting and Achieving Long-term Goals
7.1: Recognizing Character Strengths
7.2: Being Your True Self
7.3: Forging Your Path
7.4: Exploring Career Options
7.5: Furthering Your Education
7.6: Envisioning Your Future
7.7: Setting Life Goals
7.8: Mapping Your Plan
7.9: Presenting Your Mission Map (PBL)
7.10: Mod 7 Reflection & Assessment
*All modules are 10 lessons plus boosters leading to a culminating project & assessment.

The study of character and human potential is as old as literature itself. Early philosophers such as Plato and Aristotle have pondered the meaning of life, moral virtue, and the capacity of humans to influence their communities and society in positive ways. In recent years, character education — the intentional development of core ethical values such as respect, responsibility, fairness, and compassion — has re-emerged as an important component of public-school education. Character is developed through observation of positive role models, repeated practice, and reflection—the basic elements of Social Learning Theory (Bandura, 1976, 1985). By understanding positive character traits and identifying individuals who embody them, students are more likely to want to acquire these traits themselves. Acting in good character often leads to positive results and serves as natural reinforcement for continuing to act this way in the future.
Identifying one’s current character strengths (Lesson 7.1), the key traits that define one’s attributes and behavior, is a good place to start. In getting recognition for their character strengths, students gain a new appreciation for their positive attributes, an increased desire to display and “live up to” these strengths, and a boost to their self-esteem. Many teachers testify that this lesson positively affected classroom climate.
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What TEEN VOICES videos say…
“Whenever I’m demotivated, it’s kinda hard. I have that feeling of giving up.
But then, I also have that outcome and results that I can get if I finish that… and that definitely motivates me and makes my drive a lot bigger.”
- Alex, Teen Voices Interviewee
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