Skill Descriptor: Engage with components of self-awareness, concept of self, and self-esteem.

Global Competencies: CM, CTPS, SASM

Achievement Indicators:

• Examine strategies to help develop positive concept of self
• Demonstrate self-advocation strategies
• Discuss the importance of having positive role models
• Examine positive traits of role models
• Develop strategies for coping with challenges and obstacles

Skill Descriptor: Describe the changes that take place during growth development

Global Competencies: CTPS, CM, SASM, CL

Achievement Indicators:

• Examine influences that impact growth and development during adolescence
• Explain cognitive changes that take place during adolescence
• Investigate how personal development is reflected in one’s self-concept, self-esteem, morals, and values
• Reflect on and share ways to initiate and maintain interpersonal and intrapersonal relationships

Skill Descriptor: Analyze how social media and technology influence personal identities.

Global Competencies: CM, CL, CTPS

Achievement Indicators:

• Discuss how moderation and balance are important in using technology
• Examine how technology influences peer connectedness
• Examine how technology changes to influence thoughts and behaviours
• Compare online vs. in-person interactions
• Analyze how social media algorithms tailor information to confirm existing biases

Skill Descriptor: Appreciate how Wabanaki and Indigenous Peoples’ identities and natural environment intersect.

Global Competencies: CTPS, CM, SGC

Achievement Indicators:

• Examine how social relationships and identities are shaped by the natural environment
• Discuss how social relationships shape the organization of Wabanaki societies
• Investigate the significance of oral traditions on transferring knowledge
• Research the role of Indigenous Peoples as land keepers

Skill Descriptor: Analyze how healthy decision-making affects your well-being.

Global Competencies: CTPS, CM, CL, SASM

Achievement Indicators:

• Examine external factors that affect eating habits and sleep
• Describe factors that have an impact on the food choices of individuals and families
• Examine varied ways of defining and managing stress
• Discuss how community connects to well-being in Wabanaki societies
• Reflect and share on spirituality and how it relates to personal identities

Skill Descriptor: Develop strategies that families can use to support mental health.

Global Competencies: CM, CL, CTPS, SASM

Achievement Indicators:

• Discuss possible short-term and long-term strategies that support mental fitness within individuals and families
• Examine strategies to manage unexpected stressors that impact self, family, and community
• Discuss diverse and healthy ways to support loss and grief
• Discuss how to access resources when having thoughts of harming oneself
• Reflect on and share resources available to support and maintain personal and family well-being

Skill Descriptor: Evaluate strategies for managing family resources.

Global Competencies: SASM, CTPS, CL

Achievement Indicators:

• Examine how needs and wants can be balanced in individual and family finances
• Evaluate how budgeting strategies can positively impact an individual and family
• Examine the influence of personal beliefs and values on the use of family financial resources

Skill Descriptor: Appreciate the unique characteristics of adolescence.

Global Competencies: CM, CTPS, SASM, ICE

Achievement Indicators:

• Discuss adolescence as viewed in a variety of cultures
• Describe how individual factors influence personal identities
• Examine the importance of peer and family relationships in adolescence
• Reflect on and share effective ways to express independence

Skill Descriptor: Examine healthy decision-making strategies around sexuality.

Global Competencies: CM, CTPS

Achievement Indicators:

• Distinguish between infatuation and love
• Discuss the importance of mutual respect and consent in sexual relationships
• Examine safer sex practices for prevention of STBBIs
• Evaluate how pornography and media portray unrealistic ideas around sexual relationships
• Examine the correlations between intimacy, commitment, and passion

Skill Descriptor: Describe factors that influence quality of life in adulthood.

Global Competencies: SGC, CTPS, CM, CL

Achievement Indicators:

• Engage with a variety of cultural rites of passage that represent transition to adulthood
• Examine who has access to information related to personal health
• Investigate ways to promote healthy aging
• Discuss what quality of life means in a variety of cultures
• Examine intergenerational relationships in a variety of cultures

Skill Descriptor: Consider factors that influence decisions on forming relationships.

Achievement Indicators:

• Discuss reasons for remaining single or seeking a committed relationship
• Examine customs and ceremonies related to marriage/committed relationships worldwide
• Consider factors that can end a relationship

Skill Descriptor: Gain understanding of family interconnectedness.

Global Competencies: CTPS, CM, CL

Achievement Indicators:

• Examine changes to historic perceptions of functions of family
• Discuss how roles and responsibilities of family members vary over time and throughout the world
• Examine the influence of society on perceptions of functional and maladaptive families
• Investigate how cultural, sociopolitical, and economic situations influence family roles

Skill Descriptor: Recognize customs and traditions of families in various cultures.

Global Competencies: CM, CL, SGC, CTPS

Achievement Indicators:

• Discuss family customs and traditions and how they have been preserved by Wabanaki Peoples
• Examine how personal identities and biases influence one’s definition of family
• Discuss equitable access to community resources in support of families