Children who lived with failure experience negative feelings such as shame, isolation, and anger. These students need guidance to develop personal skills that support their success. According to research conducted by the Frostig Center in Pasadena, California six personal attributes from the core characteristics that contribute to success for special need students. Successful individuals do not necessarily have all six of these qualities. These attributes are:
Self-awareness and Self-acceptance
Individuals who undrestand their strengths and limitations, who realize that they have many talents, and who do not define themeselves in terms of their weaknesses, are more resilient to life’s challenges than those who see themselves as overall failures.
Pro-activity
Engaging in a variety of activities and interacting with different types of people encourages individuals to understand the power they have to create their own lives. Proactive (as opposed to reactive) individuals believe in their capacity to achieve. They look for opportunities to grow. They do not blame others for their problems; instead, they take responsibility for their own part in their situation and realize they can change their circumstances with their own actions.
Perseverance
Successful people see their setbacks or failures as temporary, not a life-defining. They don’t give up their belief in their goals. When they encounter setbacks, they reevaluate, making adjustments if necessary, rather than continuing on a non-productive course of action.
Goal -Setting
People who are successful have learned how to set long-term goals. They also have developed he capacity to break the long-term goal into bite-size pieces that represent actions they can take to achieve their goal. They are flexible, being open to unexpected opportunities, yet they don’t lose site of their overall goal.
Use of Effective Support Systems
Both successful and unsuccessful individuals have support systems; however, the successful individulas learn to set realistics, achievable goals. They learn to seek support when they need it, rather than waiting passively for hlp to be offered.
Strong Emotional -Coping Strategies
Those who develop ways to reduce stress, feelings of failure, isolation, and desire to quit, find internal resources to persist until they succeed. Successful individuals have learned to identify situations that can trigger negative reactions.They can monitor their internal reactions to sense when negative reactions are present, and they have a set of strategies to reduce these negative reactions so they can keep on track.
By: Ronaldo V. Tiangco | Teacher I | Mariveles National High School | Mariveles, Bataan
