5 Ingredients of a Champion: Showing Students How To Become a Champion

Everyone has it in them to become a champion, and with the help of dedicated adults like yourself, there is nothing stopping your students from realizing their full potential.

Sure, you can’t be there 24/7, and your influence stops outside the school doors, but we all know that what happens in the classroom can have lasting, positive effects on kids. Support and guidance go such a long way.

This is not only true on the good days, but the challenging ones, as well. Everyday, students are pressured into situations that can make or break their confidence in themselves, presenting two very different paths to who they will become. Luckily, there are champion traits in every student to help give them advantages in these situations. All they need is a little positive reinforcement from the important people in their lives–people like you.But the question remains; what is it that makes a student a champion?

Here are the 5 ingredients that you can not only recognize in your students, but help nourish.

1. Making Responsible Choices: Life is full of choices, and for many students, it isn’t always clear which decision will lead them down the proper path of being a champion. So, how can they tell the difference between a responsible choice or not? Well, the answer isn’t always simple, but as an educator and positive influence in their life, there are some questions you can ask to help them better navigate these situations. For instance, who will this choice benefit? Who will this harm? What is the gain/loss ratio that will follow? More often than not, they’ll find that the decision that helps them–or those closest to them–more than it hurts, is the most responsible choice they can make for themselves.

2. Evaluating Goals: As an educator, you understand how important it is for students to have goals. You’ve seen first hand what’s at stake when a student doesn’t have something they’re driving toward. But, creating a set of goals isn’t always so easy for students, so how do you help show them what to prioritize? The key lies in evaluation, having them apply mindfulness and clear intention to their decisions and giving themselves the opportunity to dissect, discuss, and deduce the best possible goals and their order of importance. This can be with you, their parents, or the peers who help create positive space in their lives. Long term or short, big or small, with some careful planning, evaluation, and self reflection, your students will find the nexus of where their goals align often points to the best possible path forward.

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