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| In the first category, commitment to learning, there are five assets: achievement motivation, school engagement, homework, bonding to school, and reading for pleasure. The second category, positive values, contains six assets: caring, equality and social justice, integrity, honesty, responsibility, and restraint. The third category, social competencies, contains five assets: planning and decision making, interpersonal competence, cultural competence, resistance skills, and peaceful conflict resolution. The fourth and final category, positive identity, contains four assets: personal power, self-esteem, sense of purpose, and positive view of personal future. Once a youth group leader has gained an understanding of these assets, they can put that knowledge to use. The first step is to discuss it with the youth group and ask the youth to identify whether or not they experience each of the assets. It is interesting to see which assets are experienced the most and which are experienced the least. In the youth that the Search Institute surveyed, less than 30% said that they experienced the assets of parent involvement in schooling, planning and decision making, adult role models, positive family communications, caring school climate, youth as resources, reading for pleasure and community values youth. The lowest was creative activities with only 19% of those surveyed experiencing it. More than 60% of those surveyed said that they experienced assets such as responsibility, positive peer influence, honesty, achievement motivation, integrity, school engagement, religious community, and family support. The highest was positive view of personal future, with 70% saying that they experience that asset. Continued... |
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