HIGH SCHOOL 101

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HIGH SCHOOL 101

• John Hope College Prep.
• Shavon Fields, M.Ed., L.P.C.,
• GEAR UP Counselor

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Guiding Questions

• What attitudes, skills, and behaviors do students
  need to become successful in high school?
• Which do middle school students lack?
• Assuming students have the scholastic knowledge
  needed for high school, what deficiencies keep
  students from having a positive academic and
  social experience in high school?

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Activity

• List the questions, concerns, and fears an 8th
  grade student may have regarding the transition
  to high school and success in high school.
• What obstacles do they fear may keep them from
  having positive academic and social experiences?

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High School Concerns

• Peer relations/pressure
• Studying
• Difficult class work
• Passing tests
• Making/keeping friends
• Getting into trouble
• Picking classes

• Teachers
• Excessive homework
• After school activities
• Difficult peers
• Fights/Arguments
• Getting into college
• Not graduating

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High School 101-1

• Allow students to brainstorm questions, concerns,
  and fears.
• Assist students to identify most important items
  on the list.
• Divide students into groups and assign each group
  an issue from the refined list.
• Allow groups to elaborate on their assigned issue
  and present their explanations/examples to the
  class.

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High School 101 Lessons

• Peer relations/pressure
• Difficult peers
• Making/keeping friends
• Fights/Arguments
• Getting into trouble
• Dealing with Teachers

• People Skills
• Choices and Consequences
• School Etiquette/Policies

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High School 101 Lessons

• Difficult class work
• Passing tests
• Studying
• Excessive homework
• After school activities

• Personal Learning Styles
• Note-taking
• Test-taking Skills
• Study Skills
• Time Management

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High School 101 Lessons

• Picking classes
• Getting into college
• Not graduating

• Planning for Graduation
• Transcripts

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People Skills Activity

• Instruct students to list the top 3 reasons that
  they think people get fired, or quit their jobs.
• AND List the top 3 reasons that they think
  students get in trouble in high school.

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People Skills

• The common thread is that most people get fired
  and/or quit their jobs/get in trouble in school,
  in part, because they don't get along with their
  bosses, co-workers, customers, teachers, and/or
  classmates.
• 70 of people, across the country, who are fired
  or quit their jobs do so because they can't get
  along with either their bosses, their co-workers,
  and/or their customers.

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People Skills

• In order to succeed in the world of work, and in
  high school, students will need to see the
  importance of getting along with as many people
  as possible.

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What To Do Scenarios

• You have just arrived at a local business for a
  job interview. You are wearing a nice, clean
  uniform. When you walk into the building, the
  receptionist tells you that you look like a 'bum'
  and that you need to go home and change clothes.
  You think you look great. What are you going to
  do?
• You are working the front counter at McDonald's.
  A customer walks up to the counter and orders a
  Big Mac with NO mayonnaise. She looks right at
  you and says, "Are you listening? I said NO
  mayonnaise!" You input the order correctly, but
  your co-worker in the back covers the bun with
  greasy, thick mayonnaise. The customer looks at
  the mayonnaise dripping out of her Big Mac and
  looks over your way and calls you a "brain-dead
  moron." What are you going to do?

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What To Do Scenarios

• You are driving into a crowded mall parking lot
  and just as you are about to turn into a
  front-row parking space a 60-year-old guy,
  talking on his cell phone, cuts right in front of
  you and takes the parking place. You know he saw
  you and took your parking place anyway. When he
  gets out of his car, he looks over at you and
  laughs. What are you going to do?
• You have a teacher who is strict and doesnt seem
  to like you. She gave you a D on a major project
  because she believes it was written in a hurry at
  the last minute. You worked hard on the paper
  for a week, and even though it was not great, you
  believe you deserve a higher grade. What are you
  going to do?

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People Skills Activities

• Students write responses
• Students discuss worst case responses and
  resulting consequences
• Students write and act scripts for scenarios
  showing bad people skills and practicing newly
  learned people skills

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People Skills

• 1. 'win / win'
• You don't have to win every battle to win the
  war.
• 2. burn no bridges
• You never know when you will have to cross bridge
  again.
• 3. agree to disagree
• People can disagree in a big way and still get
  along.
• 4. the 'art' of compromise
• Successful relationships only succeed when there
  is compromise.

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People Skills

• Listen more and talk less
• Wear their shoes
• 'Win' with a tie
• Disagree and let it be
• Cross the bridge twice

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Goals

• To learn and develop the attitudes, skills, and
  behaviors (related to people skills) needed to
  become successful in high school

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Results
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High School 101

• HOW TO DO HIGH SCHOOL

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HIGH SCHOOL 101

• John Hope College Prep.
• Shavon Fields, M.Ed., L.P.C.,
• GEAR UP Counselor