How different is my life with character strengths

My life is very different since I learned and practiced the character strengths since my first grade in high school, because the character strengths help me to do better my things like; playing soccer, be with my family, make people like me, have friends and have good grades. Before, I learned and practiced the character strengths I didn´t had; self-control, zest, optimism and I wasn´t honest, now with character strengths my life is happier and I haven´t had problems in a while.

What if we don´t use character strenghts?

If you don´t use character strenghts bad things can happen, it is really weird to happen something good if you don´t use them. For example, one day one of us didn´t made the homework and instead of telling the truth that person copied it, and the teacher noticed it and send her a report. In our school if you copy any thing you get a report. 

Showed Character Strengths 

We will write some ways we use character strenghts in our daily life: 

Curiosity in our school proyects because we search new things or more interesting facts about the topic that we were assigned.

Self-control when our mothers gave us scoldings, instead of yelling at them, we just hear them with respect.

Grit when we are losing in a game and then the coach tell us that we have to win.To reach this, we put more effort in the game (we run more, yell at each other more and touch the ball more). At the end of the game, we win and reach our goal.

Tips to be a better student 

We will give you 5 tips that can help be a better student with your teachers and classmates.

1. In teams, always hear your partner´s idea and ever if their ideas are dumb you always need to hear them for respect. Here you apply self-control.

2. Never give up in any subject, if you are failing in a subject: pay more attentio in class; ask if you have doubts; go to extra classes and last, ask for your partners´help. With this tip you are applying grit.

3. When you are loosing in game we recomend you to make your partners happier by telling them always the good side of the situation and telling them funny things to give them energy. Here you apply zest and optimism.

4. When you are working with someone that doesn´t know instead of leaving that person alone, explain him/her about the topic. How will you feel if you didn´t understand something and your partner refuses to explain you? Here you apply social intelligence.

5. In class when the teacher asks if there are doubts, you always need to ask what you don´t know. This is better than being quiet and don´t do anything because you just don´t understand. If you ask your doubt will be answered and you will understand and get a better grade. Here you apply curiosity.  

Interview

A student we think that has character strenghts is Kary Lozada because she always helps others, she is patient, she respects others and this makes her a good student .

When we interviewed Kary we asked her which character strenghts she thinks she has, her anwser was "self-control and grit".

A situation she told us she used this was in english class when she didnt brought the homework that was to bring the study guide printed. A classmate asked her if she wanted a study guide because he had two, but she said no and told the teacher the truth.

Our Character Strenghts

The character strenghts we think we have and that makes us good students are: grit because we never give up, zest because we cheer up our partners, social inteligence because we know how to treat other people and optimism because we see always the positive side of all the things.

A situation were we use them is when we work in team. Like for example in games and our team is loosing we cheer them up and tell them that we still have the chance to win. Other example is when we are going to present something, we hear other and respect other´s opinions. Our las example to give is when you are failing a subjects and instead of accepting it, you start going to extra classes, pay more attention and ask for help. Finally, your grade gets better.

Character Strenghts of our Principal
The character strenghts we think she has are: social intelligence to direct the school, grit because she need to believe that her student will be better someday and zest to cheer up her students.
A every-day situation related to her social intelligence: is that for being the principal she need to know how to interact with the teachers, student, coaches, parents, school workers, etc. Also, she need to give a good image of the school. 
Character strenghts she thinks she has: According to her results of the character strenght´s test are courage, value, equity, justice and gratitude.
Her story: She has not story but, she told us that ahe likes things being done with justice and that there is no injustice for nobody with everyone. And saying "thank you" for everything is important. 
Comparisson: We thought she had character strenghts related to social things but she ended having characters strenghts that benefits everyone.

Personal Life of our Principal

Likes: She likes to watch movies, go to the movie theater and hear to music. 

Dislikes: She hates incongruity and dishonesty.

Hobbies: What she does in her free time is reading and cooking.

Favorite things to do: She likes to be in family, which is the most important part in someone´s life.

Marriage: Miss Karina is married but doesn´t have children.

Education: Master´s degree in marketing administration.

Studies: Public accountant with finance speciality. Kindergarten, primary and high school. Career and master´s degree from Tec.

Character Strenghts in Teachers

The teacher that we are going to talk about is Miss Karina, the principal of the school. The character strenghts we think she has are: social intelligence to direct the school, grit because she need to believe that her student will be better someday and zest to cheer up her students.

Hopeful (the song) 
This song has grit.
Grit because the boy says he is going to be hopeful about that he is victim of bullying. And in home were his parents are constantly fighting he says he will be hopeful someday all this ends.

The Fault In Our Stars (the book)

This book has many character strenghts like optimism, grit, optimism and social intelligence. 

Grit in the scene when Augustus got very sick and Hazel was supporting him and telling him that he could get better. 

Optimism because Hazel tries to make happy Augustus knowing that he is very sick and could die.

Social Intelligence at the end when Hazel takes care of Augusts and treats him better because she knows that he is worst that her.

The Blind Side (the movie)

This movie has many character strenghts like empathy, social intelligence, optimism and grit.

Empathy because when Leigh saw Big Mike on the street in a cold night she invited him to sleep in her house.

Social Intelligence While Big Mike was on Leigh´s house, she treated him very well offering him food, clothes, took him to school and ask him to stay in her house the time he wanted. Because she knew he hadn´t a place to sleep.

Optimism When Big Mike entered to the American Football Sean Jr. trained him because he knew Michael could do it better. He trained Big Mike with a lot of motivation.

Grit When Michael was in a football game and wasn´t defending very well her mom screamed to him a lot because she knew he could do it, after screaming, Michael defended better.