Chapter 2: Personal Growth and Behaviors Lesson 1: Life After High School
Unit 4: LET 4 – The Managing Leader 1
Performance Assessment Task
Chapter 2: Personal Growth and Behaviors
Life After High School [U4C2L1]
This performance assessment task gives you an opportunity to document your achievement
of the lesson’s competency:
Determine how to successfully manage yourself after high school
Directions
For this performance assessment task, you will evaluate and revise SMART Goals pertaining to
your life after high school, whether they involve attending college, living on your own, working
part- or full-time, or joining the military. Then, determine where you could encounter challenges
and risk to steer you off course toward meeting your goal. Finally, establish a plan that will
allow you to tackle those potential challenging areas and stay on course toward meeting your
goals. For this assessment you will:
1. Consider the strength of core abilities you’ve developed as a result of the JROTC program.
Earlier in this lesson, you completed the Exercise #1 - Core Abilities Self-Assessment.
Areas that you are strong in and have developed more thoroughly will be helpful to you as
you begin the next phase of your career plan. Similarly, those abilities that you may feel are
not so strong, could contribute to the roadblocks or challenges you encounter and
ultimately steer you off track from your goals. Highlight those areas of concern to you. Use
the Core Abilities Self-Assessment Summary (and rubric if you have not already done this
activity) to explain why you gave yourself the score you did for each of the six JROTC Core
Abilities.
2. Develop two SMART Goals pertaining to your life after you graduate from high school. Use
the attached SMART Goals Worksheet.
3. Acknowledge some potential situations pertaining to your future life after high school that
could be a challenge for you and impact movement toward your goals. Challenges might
include: academic success, time management, loneliness, and many other areas. Develop
two scenarios that you could see yourself encountering in the future – whether at college in
an on-campus or off-campus setting, as a student or an employee. Explain these potential
situations in the attached My Challenges Worksheet attached below.
4. Next, think about how you could avoid the roadblock or challenge you outlined. If you
already have a college or post-secondary plan confirmed, explore on their website (if one is
available) the types of support resources available to you and explain how they could be
beneficial to you. Use the attached Support Resources Worksheet to outline your potential
solutions.