Challenging America’s youth to raise the standard.
Through engaging activities and inspiring true-to-life scenarios, Raise the Standard teaches elementary-age students how to manage some of the most trying and troubling aspects of pre-adolescence, including self-esteem, conflict resolution, peer pressure, honesty, etiquette and hygiene. Raise the Standard is the “how-to” resource that teachers and parents have wanted for a long time and that children so desperately need.
Components
The Making It Work program is available in a Standard format. The comprehensive program includes:
- Student Workbook
- Teacher Classroom Manual
- Comprehensive Teacher Training
- Teacher Compliance Tool to monitor teachers’ delivery of curriculum
- Online surveys and data collection to assist with program evaluation
- End-of-Year Executive Reports summarizing student outcomes
Program Design
Raise the Standard puts the rhetoric of early intervention into live application by focusing on making a difference in the lives of elementary school students. The program fits seamlessly into a home-school, classroom, after-school, summer camp, church, or community program as an elective course under personal social studies; can be adapted to complement existing programs, especially after-school programs.
Curriculum Overview
Unit 1: Self-Esteem
Equips students to deal with people and situations that threaten their self-esteem. They will learn through stories, projects, and skits how to love and value themselves for who they are.
Unit 2: Responsibility
Emphasizes responsibility at school and home. Students will learn how being responsible now is vital preparation for their future.
Unit 3: Loving and Caring
Students are taught the power of charity, empathy, forgiveness, and cooperation and the need to demonstrate love and affection to the people in their lives.
Unit 4: Breaking the Cycle of Prejudice
Students will identify stereotypes in their culture, discuss their prejudices and share items from their cultural heritage of which they are proud.
Unit 5: Peer Pressure—Saying “No” to Sex, Violence, and Drugs
After reading and discussing real-life scenarios, students will be equipped with effective strategies to say “no” to sex, violence, and drugs.
Unit 6: Conflict Resolution
Provides students with conflict resolution techniques which focus on negotiation, compromise, and assertiveness as viable alternatives to violence.
Unit 7: Honesty
Activities in this unit are designed to show students how honesty impacts every aspect of their lives and help them critically examine the messages regarding the value of honesty in popular culture.
Unit 8: Manners & Etiquette
Students will be taught the fundamentals of good manners and etiquette in a variety of settings including dining at a restaurant, speaking on the phone and interpersonal interaction.
Unit 9: Hygiene & Grooming
Students learn about the changes taking place in their bodies and how to always put their best foot forward.
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Who is the program designed for?
The program is designed for elementary school youth.
What does the program teach?
Raise the Standard is a chracter education program that focuses on building the foundational skills that promote educational achievement in middle school and beyond. Students learn hygiene, etiquette, basic financial literacy, conflict resolution, communication, and refusal skills.
How much does the program cost?
Student workbooks can be purchased individually for $34.95 each. Contact RTV’s office for customized package pricing.
How is the program structured?
The program can be mapped for delivery across the course of a semester (18 weeks), school year (36 weeks), or short-form (8-12 weeks) in both school-day and after-school settings. RTV will provide assistance with mapping out your curriculum to fit your program structure and hit all benchmarks necessary to achieve program outcomes.