Section 1: Models of Success

The section helps make students aware of successful people and how they achieved their success. The section helps students be aware that they will experience failures in school and elsewhere and that failure often aids learning. Here are some possible discussion topics for Section 1:

A. The need for children to be aware of successful people.

B. Examples of successful people (Sally Ride, astronaut; Michael Jordan, athlete; John Hope Franklin, historian; Bill Gates, computer expert) and what they have in common.

C. What it takes to be successful.

D. Why success in school is not always possible.

E. How occasional failures aid learning.

F. How success and failure in school will affect students' lives in the future.

G. How to achieve success in school.