PSsmile - Curriculum Framework

General goals

Develop knowledge and awareness about strengths (feelings, emotions, personal resources) that promote taking care of positive future selves.

Focus on possible consequences and paths, as well as contextual resources, for development of Self

Know and explore the nature of emotions and feelings and how they characterize myself in my daily life situations (at school, at home etc.):

• know what emotions and feelings are (i.e., be able to describe their characteristics, differentiate them) and recognize my emotions and feeling (i.e., naming them)
• know emotions and feelings impact reasoning and behaviors, explore my emotions and feelings and how I express them (i.e., describe what I feel, how I behave)
• know what generates emotions and feelings from a biological perspective and recognize what happens to me (i.e., adrenalin, fear, tremble)
• know my thoughts and my behaviors impact my emotions and feelings and explore how they influence my emotions and feelings  (i.e., when I have negative thoughts, I experience negative emotions)
• discover my uniqueness in interpreting and expressing emotions and feelings (i.e., each person is unique and has specific way of interpreting them) as components of my positive mindset

Explore and understand my positive personal resources

• know what personal positive resources (i.e., optimism, hope, resilience, time perspective) are and recognize my personal resources (i.e., describe their characteristics, differentiate them, name them)
• know that personal positive resources impact reasoning and behaviors, explore my personal positive resources, what happen to me and how I express them (i.e., describe my optimism, what happens to me biologically, how I behave)
• discover my uniqueness in interpreting and expressing my personal positive resources as components of my positive mindset (i.e., describe them)

Discover that the positive mindset plays a role in my flourishing:

• know components of positive mindset (emotions, feelings, and personal resources) that characterize the concept of Me (i.e., a picture of me)
• recognize that a positive mindset reflects my strengths and resources I can count on in my daily life situations (i.e., a picture of my strengths in diverse situations, what I use and not use)
• identify components of a positive mindset that impact the development of my strengths (i.e., positive emotions and feelings contribute to developing my interests, my likes, and dislikes).

Progress in exploring  my possible future Selves

• know a positive mindset plays a role in opening my mind and developing my possible future selves (i.e., optimism helps in finding new opportunities)
• identify components of a positive mindset I should take care of to build my future selves