Success Skills

By participating in JA’s newly updated Success Skills program, students in grades

8-10 will identify and build a toolkit of transferable skills that will enable them to increase resilience and improve outcomes through challenging situations.

BONUS: JA’s Success Skills webinar series aims to enhance resilience, build transferable skills, and support the success of students. The Success Skills webinar series helps to explain resilience and identify critical skills to enhance one’s ability to be successful. View and download the Information Sheet. To view the program online please visit our JA Campus.

Informations sur le Programme

Program Content

Lesson 1 - Success Starts With You!

Students learn how to define success
Students look at the difference between career and work
Students work at matching skills to learning
Students work on long-term success planning

Lesson 2 - Better Together

Students ask “Am I a good collaborator?”
Students look at what effective and ineffective collaboration looks like
Students learn to negotiate and that it’s about give and take
Students work on a team building challenge

Lesson 3 - Let's Think About It!

“Houston, we have a problem” – students look at conflict
Students learn about leveraging technology to solve problems
Students learn about the career investor

Lesson 4 - Getting Your Point Across

Students learn about communication literacy
Students are asked to determine what comfort zone they are in
Students area sked if texting is a good way to communicate
“Two ears, one mouth” – students learn that listening is twice as important as speaking

Lesson 5 - Stay Curious - A Superpower!

Students are asked to look at what they are curious about
Students have an opportunity to self-author their career path

Program for Grades 8 to 10