We support teachers and students in meeting Speaking & Listening and SEL standards!

Common Core State Standards

Students who are college and career ready come to understand other perspectives and cultures.

 

Speaking & Listening Standards addressed by The Interview Project:

CCRA - SL.1

Prepare for and participate effectively in a range of conversations and collaborations with diverse partners, building on others' ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively.

CCRA - SL.2

Integrate and evaluate information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally.

CCRA - SL.3

Evaluate a speaker's point of view, reasoning, and use of evidence and rhetoric.

TCSD Social Emotional Learning (SEL) Standards

Standard 1: Develop self-awareness skills to have knowledge of one’s emotions, to develop an accurate and positive self-concept, and to recognize individual strengths and external support systems

Objective C: Student demonstrates awareness of external supports

  • Identifies school support personnel and knows why, when, and how to access them

  • Identifies organizations and people in one's community that can provide information and/or opportunities to develop interests or talents or address personal needs

  • Seeks out and identifies adult role models 

Standard 2 :  Develop and demonstrate self-management skills and resiliency to regulate emotions and to monitor and achieve behaviors related to school and life success

Objective A: Student demonstrates ability to manage emotions constructively

  • Evaluates the roles one’s attitude, perception, and perspective play in achieving personal goals (i.e. pessimism vs. optimism)

  • Practices strategies for coping with and overcoming feelings of rejection, social isolation, and other forms of stress 

  • Demonstrates the ability to access personal strategies to generate and maintain positive attitudes, even in the face of adversity

Standard 3:  Develop social awareness skills needed to establish and maintain positive relationships

Objective A: Student demonstrates awareness of other people’s emotions and perspectives

  • Uses communication skills to elicit the perspectives of others

  • Demonstrates ability to listen responsively to different opinions

  • Demonstrates ability to express empathy for others 

Objective C: Student demonstrates an awareness of cultural issues and a respect for human dignity and differences

  • Analyzes how people of different groups help one another and appreciate one another’s diversity

  • Explains how individual, social, and cultural differences can lead to stereotyping and identifies benefits of diversity