Encouraging the Development of Key Life Skills in Elementary School-Age Children: A Literature Review and Recommendations to the Tauck Family Foundation. Working Paper. Publication #2012-28

Autor/inn/en	Chien, Nina; Harbin, Vanessa; Goldhagen, Samantha; Lippman, Laura; Walker, Karen E.
Institution	Child Trends
Titel	Encouraging the Development of Key Life Skills in Elementary School-Age Children: A Literature Review and Recommendations to the Tauck Family Foundation. Working Paper. Publication #2012-28
Quelle	(2012), (11 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Academic Achievement; Persistence; Self Efficacy; Self Control; Literature; Prosocial Behavior; Elementary School Students; Interpersonal Competence; Peer Relationship; Mathematics Achievement; Children; Scores; Daily Living Skills + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Schulleistung; Ausdauer; Self-efficacy; Selbstwirksamkeit; Selbstbeherrschung; Literatur; Interpersonale Kompetenz; Peer-Beziehungen; Mathmatics sikills; Mathmatics achievement; Mathematical ability; Mathematische Kompetenz; Child; Kind; Kinder; Alltagsfertigkeit
Abstract	Child Trends is pleased to support the Tauck Family Foundation in its efforts to focus on programs that help build skills that are important to success in the elementary school years and beyond. This report addresses three key questions: (1) What life skills have been identified in the research literature as contributing to success for elementary school students?; (2) To what extent does the development of those skills contribute to long-term success?; and (3) Are those skills malleable--that is, can social programs help young people develop and strengthen those skills? Our review of the research literature identified the following skills as important to learning and development: self control and self regulation; approaches to learning; mastery vs. performance orientation; persistence; interpersonal skills and peer relations; prosocial behavior; academic self-efficacy; and academic engagement. From these, we recommend the Tauck Family Foundation focus on four--self control; mastery orientation; persistence; and academic self-efficacy--and we explain our reasoning. (Contains 1 footnote.) (As Provided).
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