6 Skills to Reduce the Risk and Increase the Promise of Your Students Infographic

The 6 Skills to Reduce the Risk and Increase the Promise of Your Students infographic outlines 6 skills students need to be successful in school, and in everyday life.

1. Resilience
   Ability to cope with the stresses in life, prepare for adversity by developing confidence and empathy.
2. Resourcefulness
   Ability to make decision, solve problems, and create new ideas or use old ideas in new ways.
3. Responsibility
   Includes accountability, decision making, motivation, awareness, honesty, problem solving, resilience, resourcefulness, persistence, and emotional maturity.
4. Relationships
   Effective relationships between teachers and student truth their teachers and feel that mutual respect exists.
5. Respect
   Involves abstract abilities to empathize, to listen, and to be open to the perspectives of someone else. Grant students the benefit of the doubt and give them a chance to probe themselves worthy.
6. Reading
   Students struggle to understand the text; they have no confidence in their abilities to make sense of reading.