This list of skills really help with schoolwork, many jobs, and general “adulting.”
Help your student to “score” themselves from 1 to 5 on each of these skills. Adults can do it to, which helps demonstrate to students that each of us has strength areas.
1 – doing this is extremely hard for me
2 – doing this is pretty hard for me most of the time
3 – I feel like I can do this pretty well sometimes, but not consistently
4 – I feel like I can do this most of the time
5 – I feel like I’ve got this down!
For more explanation and to help your student accurately score their current ability, use this PowerPoint file .
| SKILL |
| GROUP A: Skills 1 – 3 are about knowing what we need to do. |
| 1 – Self-Understanding: evaluating ourselves and how we are doing. |
| 2 – Organization: developing and using systems to keep track of materials and information. |
| 3 – Time Management: identifying steps and reaching goals. |
| GROUP B: Skills 4 – 6 are about how we respond to things. |
| 4- Emotional Control: managing feelings so that we can achieve goals and complete tasks. |
| 5 – Behavior Control: stopping and thinking before doing something you shouldn’t |
| 6 – Flexibility: adapting to changes. |
| GROUP C: Skills 7 – 10 are about getting tasks done from start to finish. |
| 7 – Task Initiation: starting and finishing tasks without procrastination. |
| 8 – Attention: staying focused on a task that is uninteresting |
| 9 – Working Memory: using information held in memory to complete a task |
| 10 – Persistence: sticking with difficult tasks from start to finish |