West Virginia K–6 social-emotional learning standards

Relate self to others.

Develop positive relationships with other children and adults.

Use appropriate communication skills to initiate or join classroom activities.

Begin to use and accept negotiation, compromise, and discussion to resolve conflicts.

Show respect and caring behavior toward others.

Set goals, develop a plan, and follow it through to completion.

Exhibit respect for physical boundaries, rights, and personal privacy in relation to personal safety.

Express needs, wants, and feelings appropriately.

Demonstrate appropriate use of 911 and knowledge of parents’/guardians’ names, phone number, and address.

Identify personal skills, interest, and accomplishments.

Participate in a variety of classroom experiences and tasks.

Approach tasks and activities with flexibility, imagination, and inventiveness.

Demonstrate growing confidence in a range of abilities and express pride in accomplishments.

Demonstrate the ability to manage and adapt to changing situations and responsibilities

Engage in cooperative group play.

Maintain increasing amounts of concentration over a reasonable amount of time despite distractions and interruptions.

Increase capacity for independence in a range of activities, routines, and tasks.

Accept guidance and direction from a variety of familiar adults.

Develop increased ability to make choices from identified options.

Develop an appreciation for learning.

Develop an awareness of the roles of familiar community members and adults.

Explore the steps used in developing a plan.

Make short-term and long-term plans, as appropriate.

Persist in activities to achieve goals.

Identify and describe roles and relationships among community members.

Identify various careers in the community.

Identify and begin using expected dispositions, skills, and behaviors in school and community (e.g., attendance, punctuality, communication, relationships, attitudes, perseverance, collaboration, critical thinking and leadership).

Understand and describe the interactive roles and relationships among family members and classroom community.

Identify self as a member of groups within a community.

Understand similarities and respect differences among people, such as gender, race, disability, culture, language, and family structure.

Demonstrate increasing capacity to follow rules and routines and use materials purposefully and respectfully.

Demonstrate an increasing ability to provide leadership during collaborative tasks.

Understand that items have value

Demonstrate an awareness as to how their words impact others.

Develop positive relationships with peers, other children and adults.

Show respectful and caring behavior toward others.

Use appropriate communication skills to initiate and join activities and complete varied learning tasks.

Use and accept negotiation and compromise to resolve conflicts.

Set goals, develop a plan, and follow it through to completion.

Express needs, wants, and feelings appropriately.

Describe how situations such as teasing, bullying, harassment, breaking rules, threats, intimidation, and damaging other's property impact emotional safety.

Exhibit respect for physical boundaries, rights, and personal privacy in relation to personal safety.

Demonstrate knowledge of emergency contact information (e.g., emergency [police, fire, medical, 911], and family phone numbers, addresses, contact names).

Use personal skills, interest, and accomplishments to support learning.

Independently and collaboratively approach tasks and activities with flexibility and creativity.

Use abilities and accomplishments to maximize learning opportunities.

Work collaboratively to solve problems, complete tasks, and/or investigate topics of interest.

Explore a variety of learning opportunities within the classroom and home environment.

Maintain concentration over a reasonable amount of time despite distractions and interruptions.

Independently complete routines and learning tasks.

Accept guidance and direction from a variety of peers and adults.

Develop increased ability to make choices from identified options.

Develop an appreciation for and articulate the benefits of learning.

Interact with varied community members.

Demonstrate an understanding of the steps used in developing a plan.

Make short-term and long-term plans, as appropriate.

Persist in activities to achieve goals.

Investigate the importance of early academic planning to prepare for postsecondary success and reaching career goals.

Interact with a variety of community members.

Investigate career paths.

Interact with local and national professional and/or experts to extend personal knowledge to a variety of careers.

Use expected workplace dispositions, skills, and behaviors in the school and community (e.g., attendance, punctuality, communication, relationships, attitudes, perseverance, collaboration, critical thinking, and leadership).

Investigate and respect aspects of various communities and discuss how these contribute to each individual's perspective of local, state, and world events.

Identify themselves as members of varied groups within the local, state, national, and international community.

Interact respectfully with all individuals regardless of gender, race, disability, culture, language, and family structure.

Follow rules and routines and use materials purposefully and respectfully.

Assume leadership roles in collaborative tasks within the classroom and school community.

Evaluate financial choices based on needs and wants.

Create a budget with income from incidental funds to save for goals.

Discuss how thoughts, feelings, attitudes, values, and beliefs affect decision making and behavior.

Practice using listening skills to identify and understand the feelings and perspectives of others.

Use mistakes as opportunities to grow personally and socially, not to define self or others as a failure.

Recognize signs of anger and practice safe, respectful anger management skills.

Develop positive relationships with peers and adults.

Acquire and use effective conflict resolution techniques.

Demonstrate self-control by minimizing words and actions that hurt self and others.

Model safe and effective ways to address peer pressure.

Describe bullying and use effective practices to address it.

Identify and respect personal boundaries and privacy needs of all self and others.

Respect all individuals as unique and worthy regardless of differences.

use social and communication skills, dispositions, and character traits appropriate for various situations and audiences.

Make decisions, set goals and take necessary actions to attain goals.

Analyze situations by comparing and contrasting various behaviors and choices in relation to possible short- and long-term consequences and discuss how to improve choices.

Describe how peer pressure influences personal decisions; create and follow a plan to minimize negative peer pressure.

Describe how peer pressure influences personal decisions; create and follow a plan to minimize negative peer pressure.

Establish action steps to attain school, home, and civic goals.

Apply problem solving techniques to identify and address challenges to goal attainment.

Describe how current decisions have long term consequences and ways to achieve desired outcomes.

Identify and apply strategies to reduce stress and protect safety, differentiating between situations requiring self-help, peer support, adult or professional help.

Develop and implement plans for situations such as teasing, bullying, harassment, threats, intimidation, and other violent acts or dangerous situations.

Identify and utilize communication skills and strategies to participate in only safe and healthy activities.

Know emergency contact information; identify and utilize school and community resources to protect personal safety.

Identify and develop competence in areas of interest.

Apply multiple intelligence Principles to identify personal strengths and improve school focus.

Understand the relationship between school success, academic achievement and future career success.

Improve executive function skills (e.g., effort, paying attention, flexibility, memory, self-control, communication, focus and perseverance).

Identify personal learning style(s) and establish habits that enhance personalized learning.

Work collaboratively in groups or independently, as appropriate.

Exhibit personal responsibility.

Evaluate the impact of positive and negative choices on school success and implement a plan to improve outcomes.

Apply goal setting techniques to develop self-direction and improve school performance.

Identify and utilize school and community resources and support services when needed.

Identify how performance and course selections in middle school impacts high school course readiness and post-secondary choices.

Explore requirements for success in a variety of post-secondary options and for securing scholarships.

Analyze how personal choices negatively or positively influence high school and post-secondary options and preparedness for success.

Use a variety of assessments and inventories to identify skills, interest and aptitudes for post-secondary planning.

Use personal data and goals to establish challenging academic, personal and post-secondary plans.

Seek co-curricular and community experiences to enhance the school experience and post-secondary readiness.

Analyze assets and barriers to academic goal attainment and utilize school and community resources to overcome barriers and strengthen assets.

Explore eligibility requirements and funding opportunities for various postsecondary options.

Explore how personal abilities, skills, interest, and values relate to workplace.

Use a variety of resources and methods to explore career options.

Examine specific job requirements and opportunities for progressions of career levels from entry level to advanced leadership and develop a personal career growth vision.

Explore career options in relation to selecting a career cluster.

Describe lifestyle dreams and possible career options and evaluate the likelihood of attaining goals.

Begin to develop a possible career/life plan that explores educational credentials, skills and career progressions.

Explore how identified career choices impact lifestyles and opportunities.

Practice expected workplace dispositions and behaviors.

Explore the need for lifelong learning as situations and responsibilities change, requiring new knowledge and skills.

Compare and contrast aspects of various communities and describe how these contribute to each individual's perspective and world view.

Analyze factors that contribute to different social and world views (e.g., ethnicity, race, culture, gender, sexual orientation, family composition, lifestyle, religion, economic status and nationality).

Apply an inter-culturally sensitive perspective to social interactions.

Describe global issues and events from perspectives of various individuals and groups to understand viewpoints other than one's own.

Investigate methods for enhancing language proficiency and the ability to communicate effectively across cultural and linguistic boundaries.

Describe how stereotyping and prejudices impact interpersonal relationships.

Adhere to classroom and school rules and community laws to protect individual rights and property.

Identify and discuss issues of social justice.

Investigate programs for advocacy and promotion of social justice.

Identify the qualities of successful leaders.

Exhibit leadership to improve school and the local community.

Evaluate financial choices based on one's own needs, wants and values and how they guide spending, saving, credit and implications for the family budget.

Create a personal budget with income from incidental funds (birthday and other gifts, allowance, chores, entrepreneurial endeavors, part-time jobs, etc.) and track spending and payments.

Discuss concepts of consumer protection (e.g., laws, identify theft and predatory scams).

Discuss concepts related to financial institutions (e.g.,laws, banks, credit unions and check cashing services).