Social-Emotional Skills / Perserverance
Social-Emotional Skills
Perserverance
- Best Practices
- Featured Program Metrics
- Additional Program Metrics
- Organization of Activity
- Activities’ Transition Time
- Staff Positively Guide Behavior
- Youth Relations with Adults
- Youth Relations with Peers
- Space Adequacy
- Overall Socio-Emotional Environment
- Informal Time: General Staff Performance
- Informal Time: Youth Engagement and Behavior
- Youth Feel Challenged
- Supportive Adults Present
- Helps Youth Academically
- Helps Youth Socially
- Social-Emotional Skills
- Measurement
Perseverance is the degree to which youth stay focused on a long-term goal despite obstacles, consistently performing required or important tasks and demonstrating initiative in spite of obstacles or distractions.
Program practices related to this skill:
- The activity is part of an ongoing project, activity series or curricular unit designed to promote specific skills/concepts over time.
- Staff encourage individual youth. (e.g., “I like your thinking,” “You can do it – give it another try.”)
For more examples of program practices that help intentionally build perseverance, please view this document.
