PATHS Program
PATHS, which stands for Promoting Alternative THINKING Strategies, is designed to help elementary children to develop better thinking skills, more mature and responsible ways of behaving, and improved academic performance. PATHS lessons are taught on a weekly basis in all grades. The goals of the PATHS program include:
• Increasing children’s abilities to think and solve problems for themselves
• Increasing children’s abilities to use their thinking skills to act responsibly and maturely
• Improving children’s understanding of themselves and others
• Improving children’s feelings about themselves and others
• Increasing children’s abilities to learn more effectively in the classroom environment
