Healthy Students Objectives

Objectives As discussed before this programs objectives are SMART objectives.
Objective #1 is an academic objective in accordance to the RFA: All children that go through the program will develop skills in the classroom to help them solve problems in a non-violent way by June 30, 2020.
Objective #2 is an epidemiological objective in accordance to the RFA: By June 30, 2020 there will be a 50% reduction in homicides among 14 to 18 years olds that live in the specified violent areas of Los Angeles. These objective are in accordance with the Healthy People 2020 goals and objective related to injury prevention and violence in youth. The Healthy People 2012 goals and objectives for youth violence includes, the main goal of the initiative
Lesson 1 is entitled Being Respectful. The students will learn about how to treat others and how being respectful makes the student a better learner. The students will be able to identify respectful behavior and learn how to response in different scenarios. Lesson 2 is entitled Focusing Attention and Listening, the student will learn how to focus their attention and how listening will make them a better learner. The student will also learn how to focus their attention and how listening to others is showing respect. The student will be able to identify examples of focusing attention, identify examples of listening and will be able to apply focusing attention and listening skills through an interactive game. Lesson 3 is entitled Using Self Talk. The student will learn what self talk means. The student will be able to identify through role playing scenarios, the classroom distractions and self - talk. Lesson 4 is entitled, Being Assertive and the the student will learn how to be assertive. They will be taught to be assertive is a respectful manner to be able to get what they want or need. The student will be able to demonstrate assertive communication skills in different role playing scenarios (comittee for
Lesson 5 is entitled Identifying Feelings, the student will learn how to read and understand clues in body communication. They will be taught that everyone has a wide range of emotion. They will be able to identify various feelings, use physical, verbal and situational clues to be emphatic to what others are feeling. Lesson 6 is called Learning about more feelings and it will expand more on the previous lessons. The student will be able to identify how to label their own feelings through role playing activities. Lesson 7 is entitled, Feeling Confident and the student will learn how to practice building their confidence and they will be taught to notice how others feel and be able to understand their feelings. They will be able to identify physical and and situational clues that indicate the feeling of confidence. They will be able to detect their feelings and other’s feelings as well. Lesson 8 is entitled Respecting Different Preferences the student will be taught how empathy helps the student notice that others may have a different preference from their own. They will learn to respect others preferences. The student will be able to label their own preferences through an activity. Lesson 9 is called Showing Compassion and the student will be taught to notice and understand what others are feeling. The student will be able to identify situational cues through role playing as well as shoe compassion to others. Lesson 10 is entitled, Predicting