Research indicates that IQ contributes only about 20 percent to the factors that determine success. The other 80 percent of the factors are related to EQ-emotional intelligence. Emotional intelligence impacts every area of life-health, learning, behavior and relationships. Teaching children and youth to understand, manage, and productively express their emotional intelligence pays big dividends in all areas of their lives and yours. In response to the growing EQ movement these activity guides have been developed based on the ground-breaking brain and behavioral research on emotional intelligence. The result is a complete emotional literacy program. Each book contains a comprehensive overview of emotional intelligence theory-what it is, why it has become such a hot topic in education, and its scientific basis in brain research, plus concrete suggestions for “schooling” the emotions. Each unit includes a thematic overview, stimulating age-appropriate activities and lively discussion topics.
Social and emotional skills are recognized as vital for improving student academic performance, emotional development and positive behavior. With these ready-to-use, student centered activities you'll be able to easily weave SEL into your busy classroom or counseling program. This collection of the most popular and effective activities for middle school offered by Innerchoice Publishing aligns with CASEL's five core SEL competencies: Self-awareness, Self-management, Social Awareness, Relationship Skills, and Responsible Decision-making. Within these units engaging activities, Sharing Circles and reproducible student pages address topics such as: Recognizing how thoughts and feelings affect behavior Identifying emotions and how they affect others Regulating and controlling anger Demonstrating honesty, reliability, and respect Considering the consequences of different actions Making positive choices and decisions Identifying individual strengths and weaknesses Examining prejudices and biases Learning effective stress management strategies Setting and attaining short and long-term goals Establishing and maintaining healthy relationships Making positive connections with others Empathizing with others Taking the perspective of others Accepting and appreciating differences in others Recognizing value in diversity Making and keeping friends Using effective communication skills Being aware of group dynamics Identifying peaceful conflict management strategies Listening with empathy and understanding And more Written and designed for clarity and ease of implementation, each activity includes behavioral objectives, step-by-step instructions, and thought-provoking discussion questions formulated to elicit higher-level thinking and reflection. Engage your students in these enjoyable and effective social and emotional learning skills that will serve them throughout their lives.
Focusing on developing key areas like self-concept, personal strengths, and supportive, healthy relationships these activities cover essential health and safety information while teaching vital decision-making skills.
This award-winning activity book provides you with a wealth of creative ideas for helping your children develop empathy and compassion, recognize real-life consequences of acts of violence, deal effectively with anger, communicate clearly, resist negative peer pressure, and exercise sound judgement and self-discipline when confronted with tough decisions. You'll find creative and energizing activities, individual worksheets, stories, songs, and stimulating discussion questions. A wealth of ideas for engaging students' minds and touching their emotions. Grades K - 8
This valuable resource is packed cover-to-cover with inviting, kid-friendly games, arts and crafts, science projects, environmental lessons, and more. Every activity comes with step-by-step directions and complete guidance for getting the most out of each lesson.
A classroom and counseling resource for developing vital social and emotional skills in students. All the activities in the book are experiential in nature and relay on a blend of individual and group work. Includes reproducible handouts.
These Immediately usable and highly impactful activities naturally draw out the best in students and inspire the development of universally valued character traits. Virtues, Values, and the Very Best You uses proven strategies that engage students in meaningful interactions and self-reflection that teach the real-life benefit of "doing the right thing'. Unit themes include: Trustworthiness, Respect, Responsibility, Justice and Fairness, Caring, Citizenship, Moral Decision-making, and Service Learning. Specific activities teach such learning as: The consequences of cheating and lying, How to develop healthy friendships, How to respond respectfully to others, The qualities and characteristics of our heroes and stars, The value in responsible behavior, How to accept responsibility and not blame others, Identifying justice and fairness in real life, Practicing tolerant behavior, Respecting individual differences, How rules and laws help people live and work together, How prejudice hurts both self and others, Demonstrating concrete caring behaviors, Recognizing and acknowledging positive attributes in self and others. This book is a valuable and practical resource for classroom, counseling, and youth group instructors interested in enhancing character and virtue in their students.
Teach important social and emotional skills with this powerful emotional intelligence curriculum. By involving you students in these engaging activities, they learn how to: constructively express themselves and control their behavior think through the consequences of their actions learn how to take the perspectives of others and to develop empathy accept responsibility for their decisions develop skills for positively managing conflict, anger, and stress The instructional strategies are appropriate for classroom or counseling groups and include a variety of meaningful large- and small-group activities, lively discussion topics, and reproducible activity sheets. This collection of the most popular and effective social-emotional activities ever offered by Innerchoice Publishing is organized into ten units. They are: Self-awareness Managing Feelings Decision Making Managing Stress Personal Responsibility Self-concept Empathy Communications Group Dynamics Conflict Resolution
This straightforward, delightfully illustrated, fully reproducible book gets teens to stop, focus, and consider issues valuable to their growth and life success. Each topic is presented as a group of engaging, individual worksheets, which can also easily be used as the basis for discussion and group work.
This timely and practical book provides a variety of engaging activities, group discussions, reproducible handouts, and Sharing Circles all designed to help teens develop the knowledge, skills and techniques necessary for effective conflict resolution. In addition, students are given meaningful experiences and information to help them improve their own behaviors while giving them the abilities to deal effectively with others. Use these high-impact activities to provide students with guidance and help in: handling confrontations learning the language of conflict de-escalation coping with anger managing moods and dealing with criticism understanding the rules for fighting fair exploring alternatives to conflict developing the power of listening improving social skills effectively solving problems and making decisions learning the factors that trigger conflict controlling behaviors that lead to misunderstandings and conflict
Scores of concrete, instantly usable activities, role plays, games, simulations and worksheets that teach specific pro-social skills in an enjoyable fashion. These inspiring activities engage students in learning about respect and responsibility, empathy and understanding, and true connectedness among all people. These activities teach the real meaning of Getting Along. Grades 5 - 9
Treasure Chest of Group Activities is a collection of exciting lessons that promote the development of essential social and life skills in students ages 3 to 8. The easy-to-use activities and reproducible student pages are organized to bring emphasis and promote growth in eight vital areas that you can review in the full description of the book.
Teach teens how to handle important life issues and concerns with these easy-to-use, reproducible worksheets. Contains more than 85 activity pages designed to promote student insight and understanding around significant life skill areas, as well as suggestions for generating discussion.
This timely book provides concrete and useful strategies to help students get in touch with the effects of stress in their lives, and more importantly, helps students learn what they can do about it. Stress has an enormous impact on the ability of students to learn. The body's defense system is built for short-term physical stressors, not long-term psychological and emotional stress, which can lead to health problems, memory loss, severe learning difficulties, and angry outbursts. Less Stress = More Success includes meaningful activities and impactful student "experience sheets" designed to help students understand what causes stress, identify sources of personal stress, and learn strategies for managing stress. Activities cover relaxation techniques; the roles of nutrition and exercise; success strategies such as goal setting, time management; and positive self-talk; and tips for dealing with anger, worry, and high-stakes testing. The relevant introduction covers current learning theory and brain science basics.
This book includes 10 four-session units: Relationships; Self-Discipline; Honesty; Citizenship; Responsibility; Respect; Leadership; Fairness; Trustworthiness; and Caring. Each unit features insightful activities and discussions that will help students better understand the meaning of the character trait being presented as well as the personal use of the character trait in their daily lives. The 35-40 minute lessons have been designed to maintain student and leader interest. Individual, small-group, and whole-class activities are featured in a variety of ways that will stimulate the students to look forward to each class. Each session requires little or no preparation. Numerous reproducible activity sheets and activity-oriented experiences keep students motivated and interested.
Research indicates that IQ contributes only about 20 percent to the factors that determine success. The other 80 percent of the factors are related to EQ-emotional intelligence. Emotional intelligence impacts every area of life-health, learning, behavior and relationships. Teaching children and youth to understand, manage, and productively express their emotional intelligence pays big dividends in all areas of their lives and yours. In response to the growing EQ movement these activity guides have been developed based on the ground-breaking brain and behavioral research on emotional intelligence. The result is a complete emotional literacy program. Each book contains a comprehensive overview of emotional intelligence theory-what it is, why it has become such a hot topic in education, and its scientific basis in brain research, plus concrete suggestions for “schooling” the emotions. Each unit includes a thematic overview, stimulating age-appropriate activities and lively discussion topics.
This document contains a set of activity sheets designed to enhance the self-esteem of middle school and high school students while helping them to develop a number of important life skills. Designed to be a supplement to other self-esteem enhancing strategies teachers are using, the activities in this book can be infused into the regular classroom curriculum. An introductory section recommends using activities on a regular basis, relating activities to academic assignments or to current community or school events, encouraging interaction, generating class discussions, respecting the students' privacy, creating spin-off assignments, and using the skills developed through the activities. Activities are designed to help students develop, maintain, and enhance life skills in such areas as decision making, goal setting, communication, conflict management. learning, leadership, time management, refusal skills, responsibility, assertiveness, and career choice. A large proportion of the activity sheets consist of two pages, back and front, and all of these are separate entities and may be used independently. A few series do exist, however, and it is recommended that, for maximum impact, sequential activity sheets be distributed in the order in which they are arranged in the books. Sequences focus on the areas of feelings, communication, leadership, decision making, goal setting, influence, conflict management, and justice. (NB)
100 social-emotional learnings games that children should play. Grab the attention of your students with something that's fun and important to them-games. This enjoyable, eclectic, collection of kid-friendly games focuses on a win-win approach while teaching valuable skills of cooperation, inclusion, full participation and creativity. Everyone plays, learns, has fun, and no one loses. Written with easy to follow step-by-step instructions, the wide variety of games offer hours of activities. Everything from physical action games to brain games to creating games, and more. If you're working with kids in any capacity, you need this book. Designed for you to be able to develop positive interations that involve all kids-especially important for the shy and socially neglected child.
Provides instructional activities for school children to teach and measure the achievement of emotional and social skills. Measures students' self-awareness or emotional intelligence, social competence, creativity, and readiness for participation through lessons. The Treasure chest activities identify objectives aligned with the ASCA National Standard for School Counseling Programs.
This book contains over 100 career development activities for students in kindergarten through sixth grade. Each activity is designed to meet one or more specific competencies established by the National Occupational Information Coordinating Committee. Introductory sections explain the layout of the book and provide information for conducting a sharing circle, a unique small-group discussion process that is used to promote teacher-student and student-student interaction. Activities are then organized under the three major headings of Self-Knowledge, Educational/Vocational Development, and Career Planning and Exploration. Within these three major areas, activities are arranged in developmental sequence. Activities for grades kindergarten-1 are followed by activities for grades 2-3 and grades 4-6. A grade-level designation appears at the top of each activity. The activities can be used to infuse self- and career-awareness into existing academic subject areas. Subject area connections are indicated for individual activities. Activities involve a variety of instructional strategies, several involve reading aloud sections from children's literature, and some include experience sheets for the teacher to duplicate and give to the students. Most activities conclude with a list of open-ended discussion questions and the recommendation that students be encouraged to talk about what they have learned. Many of the questions are formulated to elicit higher-level thinking in the students. (NB)
Can he trust her with his heart? Army doc Caleb Carsten will do anything for his gifted son—even if it means returning to his hometown of Marrell and working for Leanne Sinclair, the childhood crush who once broke his heart. Leanne is thrilled to meet Caleb again. But why can’t she remember more about their past, and what she did to hurt him so badly? And if Leanne can’t show Caleb she’s changed, will he ever trust her with his heart?
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