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Level 1

Level 2

Level 3

Recognizes that life events, family, and culture help to shape values, outlook, and goals

Demonstrates strong awareness of the role life events, family, and culture have in shaping values, outlook, and goals; locates own history in broader community context

Uses own history as an instrument for understanding other individuals, communities, and cultures

Understands and can define the term "personal value"; begins to recognize own values

Understands and articulates own fundamental ethical values

Uses ethical values different from own to gain perspective on or transform personal beliefs

Recognizes some personal strengths and weaknesses; understands that these help shape an individual's contributions to community

Uses knowledge of strengths to envision and/or offer contributions in a civic context; uses knowledge of limitations to judge where contributions may be inappropriate or of questionable value

Uses strengths to address limitations, transforming or accepting them in ways appropriate to active, responsible citizenship

Inventories own desires and goals, both personal (e.g., educational, career, family) and civic; when appropriate, sets strategies to achieve goals

Recognizes that desires and goals help to shape personal satisfaction and contributions to society

Shows awareness of impact of desires/-
goals/strategies on others; shows ability to modify these to enhance activities of self and others within a community

Interdependence

Recognizes that individuals are in part shaped by, and help to shape, their communities

Understands complex interconnectedness of individuals and communities and locates self within larger community context

Demonstrates understanding of ways in which the individual self is enhanced through relationship to community