Self –Efficacy is your view of possibilities, or the extent to which your view your goals as within your ability to achieve, given your existing knowledge and skills. It is the second scale in our Personal Skills Map. Multi-Tiered System of Supports, or MTSS, is a term used to describe [...]
Goal setting is the first and probably the most important scale in our Personal Responsibility–Achieving Academic and Career Goals Personal Responsibility Map. By definition, a goal is an object or end that one strives to attain. A goal is an end toward which one directs some effort. Goal setting is [...]
Academic and Career Goal Setting & MTSS Did you ever ask yourself this question: Why doesn’t Johnny learn? If you asked Johnny why he doesn’t seem interested in learning, he might respond by saying, “What for? Give me a good reason or I’m out of here.” Well, now you’ve done [...]
Physical wellness is the state of health that is the result of doing healthy things, such as eating good foods, exercising daily, and feeling good about life. Wellness is the state of health and well-being we are able to achieve. It is not only being free of illness, it is [...]
Mulit-Tiered System of Supports or MTSS is a term used to describe an evidence-based model of schooling that uses data-based problem solving to integrate academic and behavioral instruction and intervention (Florida’s MTSS Project). This definition brings together the works of academic instruction and behavioral intervention. This movement is catching on [...]
This is the ninth step in our Success Profiler’s Personal Skills Map pyramid. Commitment ethic is a deeply held belief that once you have agreed to do something you must do it until it is finished. A strong commitment ethic leads to success. For most educators it is easy to [...]
For many years, we at The Conover Company have grouped sales orientation with leadership. The two are fundamentally the same. Leadership is the ability to clearly express to others your vision or ideas about how to do something, get them to accept and do it on their own. Sales orientation [...]
Time Management is the seventh skill on our Success Profiler social/emotional pyramid. Time management is making sure that your actions help you to finish things you have to do. The biggest task facing most of us today is to improve productivity. This is true for your students as well. Learning [...]
The sixth step in our Success Profiler social/emotional pyramid is Decision Making. It is important to note that decision making is a process that follows problem solving. Decision making is using problem solving skills to discover a course of action that will most likely achieve the results you want. Decision [...]
Empathy is the fourth building block on our social/emotional pyramid that is measured by the Success Profiler’s Personal Skills Map. Empathy is one of the more critical characteristics in our social/emotional pyramid. Without empathy, emotional intelligence is simply not possible. Empathy is also a critical skill needed in MTSS. Multi-Tiered [...]