Student Success Skills: An Evidenced-Based Program to Impact Student Outcomes
- 1. Student Success Skills: An Evidenced-Based Program to Impact Student Outcomes
- 2. Agenda • Student Success Skills: Overview • ASCA Mindsets & Behaviors • Practitioner Research Study • Design/Instruments/Results • School Counselor Experiences • Questions
- 3. Student Success Skills • Evidence-based program for building academic and social/behavioral skills, such as: • Listening, attending, reasoning, relating, studying • Atlantic Education Consultants: Boca Raton, FL: • www.studentsuccessskills.com • (561) 451-9719 • Florida Atlantic University faculty
- 4. Student Success Skills • 3 Developmental Levels: • K-1: Ready to Learn (RTL) • 2-3: Ready for Success (RFS) • 4-12: Student Success Skills (SSS) • 5 classroom lessons + 1 “booster” lesson (can be repeated as often as needed) • SSS has an optional 8-session small group component for skill reinforcement
- 5. RTL (K-1) • Stories about “Fuzzy” and his friends • Four Learning Skills: • Paying attention, listening & understanding, asking effective questions, encouragement • Five Teaching Strategies: • Student story telling, story re-telling, encouragement council, peer reporting, modeling- coaching-cueing
- 6. ASCA Mindsets & Behaviors • Replaced ASCA Student Standards in 2014 • Research-based “non-cognitive” factors • Knowledge, Skills, Attitudes for college/career readiness, personal/social development, & academics • Counselors (or advisory teams, states, districts, etc.) create competencies for each grade level • http://schoolcounselor.org/asca/media/asca/home/Min dsetsBehaviors.pdf
- 7. College/Career OR Academic OR Personal/Social Mindsets Standard 1 Local Competency 1 Behaviors Learning Standard 1 Local Competency 1 Self- Management Standard 1 Local Competency 1 Social Standard 1 Local Competency 1 Domains Categories Subcategories Standards Competencies
- 8. ASCA Mindsets & Behaviors • Grade level competencies: • What should students be able to do at each grade/age level in your school (or district, community, state) • Create your own or borrow: ASCA Database (searchable)
- 9. Practitioner Research Study • Choose standards (Mindsets & Behaviors) • Create competencies • Develop tool (rubric) to measure each • Choose intervention (Student Success Skills) • Collect pre-intervention data from teachers • Implement lesson • Collect post-intervention data from teachers
- 10. Practitioner Research Study Category 2, Behavior Standards: Students will demonstrate the following standards through classroom lessons, activities and/or individual/small-group counseling: Learning Strategies (LS) 4. Apply Self-Motivation and Self-Direction to Learning Self-Management Skills (SMS) 2. Demonstrate Self Discipline and Self-Control 7. Demonstrate Effective Coping Skills When Faced with a Problem Social Skills (SS) 1. Use Effective Listening Skills 2. Create Positive & Supportive Relationships with other Students
- 14. Practitioner Research Study • School Counselor Reflection: • Student Success Skills • Teacher buy-in • Use of data/Practitioner research • Improvements the following year
- 15. Questions & Contact Info Butler University Counselor Educators: Tom Keller: tkeller@butler.edu Brandie Oliver: bmoliver@butler.edu Nick Abel: nabel@butler.edu Lisa Piatek, School Counselor: lpiatek@tccs.k12.in.us