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RISE contains 6 Units. Each unit contains 5 lessons.
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This topic is divided into 5 lessons.
Each lesson is 45 minutes – 1 hour in length.
Every unit is divided into 5 lessons. Each lesson is 45 minutes – 1 hour in length. Typically, lessons are taught sequentially on different days of the week.
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Unit 1
Many learners struggle to identify ways that they can improve their learning experience, and this can negatively affect an individual’s mentality and sense of self.
This unit provides students an opportunity to learn about themselves as individuals inside and outside the classroom, focusing on understanding concepts such as resiliency, self-affirmation, and self-care.
It is important that students understand that resiliency is an integral part of teamwork, leadership, and healthy self-perception. These qualities will benefit learners as they learn to understand themselves and provide them tools to prepare for the future.
Guiding Questions
- What is the connection between “toughness” and resilience?
- How do you respond in the face of challenge?
- What qualities contribute to my resilience?
- What is a resilience plan?
- How can imagery be used to explore our emotions?
- What are some ways we can work to build resilience?
- What is my purpose in life? My why…?
- What have I learned about myself and resilience today?
- Have you ever thought about how you learn best?
- What is your preferred learning style?
- How do I build resilience by building my capacity to learn?
- Why is it important to know who we are as a learner?
- What is self-talk?
- What is negative self-talk?
- How can mediation help me become more aware?
- How can I use affirmations each day?
- How do we define “self-care?”
- How can we prioritize different aspects of self-care?
- How can we plan to be successful using self-care?
- What have I learned about myself and what do I need to achieve success?
Lessons
Lesson 1: What is Resilience?
Lesson 2: What is Your Why?
Lesson 3: What are Our Learning Preferences?
Lesson 4: What is the Voice Inside Your Head?
Lesson 5: What is a Self-Care Plan?
Unit 2
In this unit, learners will come to understand the value of courage and connect it to other concepts related to self-care as explored in Unit 1.
Learners will be motivated to understand concepts like trust or fear and how it is connected to courage. Additionally, learners will understand how to use courage to facilitate mindfulness and self-regulation, develop a plan on how to achieve their goals, and how to better manage stress.
Guiding Questions
- What is mindfulness?
- How is courage connected to fear?
- How can you become inspired by acts of courage?
- Have you ever heard of the word mindfulness?
- What is the connection between trust and support?
- What is the connection between trust and safety?
- How can we challenge our memory skills?
- What is the connection between selectivity and association?
- Why is goal-setting important?
- How does your body react to stress?
- What is the connection between stress and your environment?
- Why is it important to manage stress?
- How does reflection help my growth?
- How can we act courageously to help improve ourselves?
- What does it mean to have a full plate?
- What adjustments might we need to make in order to achieve our best life?
- How can we use courage to achieve our ideal life?
Lessons
Lesson 1: What is Courage?
Lesson 2: What is a Support System?
Lesson 3: What are the Principles of Selectivity and Association?
Lesson 4: How can I Solve Problems and Manage Emotions?
Lesson 5: How can Courage help us Live Our Best Life?
Unit 3
This unit is an exploration of self-advocacy and the merits that self-awareness and advocacy can bring. Learners are encouraged to explore what it means to be a self-advocate and how this is connected to concepts such as leadership, bias, and self-worth.
With the use of role-play, learners will understand the importance of self-advocacy and how being a self-advocate is essential not only to your own well-being, but for the well-being of others.
Guiding Questions
- What is a self-advocate?
- What does self-advocacy look like to you?
- How can you plan to become a better self-advocate?
- What have I learned about the importance and benefits of self-advocacy?
- How do we identify good qualities of leadership?
- How is our ability to compromise connected to becoming an effective leader?
- How can I define the leader in me?
- How have different types of leaders influenced my life?
- How can we continue to build relationships and develop our communication skills?
- How can visualization help me recall information?
- How do elaboration strategies improve my memory?
- How can we put the principles of visualization and elaboration to use?
- What is the connection between self-awareness and your emotions?
- Why is it important to know who we are as individuals?
- What are the connections between self-advocacy and self-awareness?
- What have I learned about the importance of becoming self-aware?
- How can I strengthen my communication skills?
- How does being self-aware help identify biases?
- What are the connections between self-advocacy and identifying biases?
- What have I learned about biases and self-advocacy?
Lessons
Lesson 1: What is Self-Advocacy?
Lesson 2: What are the Qualities of an Effective Leader?
Lesson 3: What are the Principles of Visualization and Elaboration?
Lesson 4: What are the Benefits of Self-Advocacy and Self-Awareness?
Lesson 5: How do Biases Influence Self-Advocacy?
Unit 4
Unit 4 is an exercise in critical or “flexible” thinking. Learners will learn what it means to think flexibly and how being mentally flexible can assist them in understanding different cultures, interpersonal relationships, and general problem-solving.
By engaging students with a divergent thinking and demonstrating how flexibility can assist them, learners come to understand themselves better in relation to new or different concepts or ideas.
Guiding Questions
- How do we define “flexibility?”
- How can we be flexible when plans change?
- How can we plan to be more flexible?
- What have I learned about myself and how I can be more flexible?
- How do we define “cultural flexibility?”
- How can we acknowledge privilege and be culturally flexible in order to be part of a solution?
- How can we plan to be more culturally flexible?
- What have I learned about myself and how I can be more culturally flexible?
- How can we build our memory skills?
- How can we demonstrate concentration?
- How can we demonstrate recitation?
- What does it mean to apologize?
- How can we put emotion behind our apologies?
- How can we use what we have learned to build an effective apology?
- What have I learned about writing an effective apology?
- How can we manage challenges and become more flexible when experiencing them?
- How can we think differently to solve problems?
- How can we use flexible thinking to overcome day to day obstacles?
- What do I do when I don’t know what to do? (What have I learned about applying flexible thinking to day to day scenarios?)
Lessons
Lesson 1: What is Flexibility?
Lesson 2: What is Cultural Flexibility?
Lesson 3: How Can we Increase our Memory Skills to become more Flexible Learners?
Lesson 4: What are the Steps to a Sincere Apology?
Lesson 5: What do we do when we don’t know what to do?
Unit 5
Unit 5 focuses on the value of empathy. Learners are motivated to understand and demonstrate empathy in a verbal and non-verbal way, focusing on developing a plan for understanding others and how to practice empathizing in difficult situations.
Learners are prompted to think about how they empathize, who they empathize with, and the value of empathy as an upstanding member of society. These concepts are investigated on the individual scale and then extended to the group setting.
Guiding Questions
- What does it mean to have empathy?
- How can we practice our empathy skills?
- What can I do to make someone else feel better?
- What have I learned about myself and empathy today?
- How do we become better listeners?
- How can I focus my attention to become a better listener?
- In what ways can I plan to build my active listening skills?
- What have I learned about my ability to be a more active listener?
- What are intentions?
- How do I write an intention?
- How can creating a vision board help with setting intentions?
- What have I learned about myself and setting intentions today?
- How can we better understand situations by following a person’s body language?
- What message does our non-verbal communication send to others?
- How can we use non-verbal communication to effectively communicate with others?
- What is our non-verbal communication?
- How can we use empathy to have more positive interactions with others?
- How do we share our empathy with others?
- What responsibilities do we have as members of a community?
- How can empathy be a tool in building stronger relationships?
Lessons
Lesson 1: What is Empathy?
Lesson 2: How Can we Engage in Active Listening?
Lesson 3: How Can we Use Intentions?
Lesson 4: What is our Non-Verbal Communication Saying?
Lesson 5: How can Empathy be a Tool in Building Strong Relationships.
Unit 6
In this final unit, learners learn about integrity and what it means to practice integrity in their everyday lives. Through role-play, students identify what it means to have integrity in the real and digital world, an environment where anonymity makes integrity appear less important.
As with the previous units, learners connect values with their personal life and how practicing integrity can improve quality of life, stress management, task prioritization, and interpersonal relationships.
Guiding Questions
- How can we learn more about each other while developing our communication skills?
- What is the relationship between honesty and integrity?
- How can storytelling affirm my understanding of integrity?
- How can I continue to develop integrity?
- How do I communicate?
- How are your digital footprint, personal information, and private information related?
- How can I shape my digital reputation?
- How can I become more aware of my social media presence?
- How do I spend my time?
- How do I identify and prioritize tasks?
- How can I schedule time for priorities?
- What is the relationship between time-management and accomplishing goals?
- What is my dream space?
- What actions can you take to cope with stress?
- How can I practice gratitude and manage my stress?
- How do I act with integrity?
- How is decision-making related to building a strong character?
- How would others describe my character?
- What is the relationship between integrity and character development?
Lessons
Lesson 1: What is Integrity?
Lesson 2: What is the Impact of my Digital Footprint?
Lesson 3: What is the Benefit to Time Management?
Lesson 4: How can I develop Stress Management Techniques?
Lesson 5: How can I Develop a Strong Sense of Character?