LibGuides: General Education Learning Outcomes @ PVCC: Personal Development

Resources for Personal Development and Wellness

Self-Direction
This 30-minute online program includes survey questions, short reading passages, and brief reflection exercises. Students will learn: scientific evidence showing that the brain is malleable, specific behaviors that can increase abilities over time, and the importance of effective study strategies.
Goal Setting
Student Success Guide: Create Goals and Enhance Motivation
Purpose
Having purpose increases motivation.
Self-Care
Self-care for students.
Interpersonal Communication
How to improve your interpersonal communication skills.
Self-Awareness
The importance of self-awareness.

Goal Setting Worksheeet
Setting goals is an important step in achieving them.

COVID-19 Resource Guide for Higher Education Professionals
Provides recommendations for supporting your students' and campus community's mental health during this period of remote learning.
OPINION: Students need tools to safeguard their mental health in uncertain times
A Hechinger Report on how colleges must help students during the pandemic.

Adapting and Innovating to Promote Mental Health and Emotional Well-Being of Young People of Color: COVID-19 and Beyond
The Steve Fund, a nonprofit organization dedicated to
promoting the mental and emotional well-being of
students of color, created a Crisis Response Task
Force to develop recommendations for mitigating the
mental health risks for these students caused by the
COVID-19 pandemic and the economic and social
upheaval that has followed.

Rubric

Personal Development and Wellness Rubric
Glossary of terms
Defines terms from the Personal Development and Wellness rubric.
Physical Well-Being Assessment
This tool helps to measure part of the Personal Wellness Development rubric's dimension on self-care.

Personal Development and Wellness Definition

Fairminded critical thinkers recognize that thinking impacts every aspect of their lives. They take command of their thoughts in order to make healthy choices. They understand that becoming a fairminded critical thinker takes time and practice and commit to continual improvement.