Toward Higher Ground Course Objectives

Toward Higher Ground Web-Based Professional Development Course

Toward Higher Ground

Building character and increasing academic achievement by teaching self-respect, self-discipline, and responsibility

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Course Objectives

Educators who complete the Toward Higher Ground web-based professional course will be equipped to

Adapt and administer assessment instruments to determine local opportunities and challenges for student character and academic achievement
Identify relationships between challenging behaviors and character-development strategies
Explain the value of working to develop self-respect, self-discipline and responsibility as fundamental building blocks of both character and academic achievement
Explain the importance of perspective and success in building youth character and increasing academic achievement
Identify strategies for developing youth success in a typical scenario for failure
Use strategies for progressive skill development to build student character and increase academic achievement
Assess program effectiveness and make adaptations necessary to sustain success