This humorous, punchy book meets the needs of those working with young people in schools, youth clubs, social service provision - in fact anywhere adults and young people interact. This is serious and important work made accessible. Within the structure of the programme there are five habits that are continually practised: " Being calm " Having energy " Having courage " Giving care " Making plans. The second part of the book considers: " Anger " Worry " Helplessness " Grief " Alcohol and tobacco. There are full facilitator's notes and the worksheets, activities and quizzes are presented in an enjoyable and lively style. Bob Bellhouse began his career as a teacher in mainstream schools before finding his niche working in alternative settings with marginalised young people. For the past 15 years, he has worked as a researcher and writer, specialising in education. He has an underlying interest in finding ways that help children and youth become deeply interested (engaged) in school and learning.
Snappy Ideas covers issues relevant to students in the middle years of secondary school. The lessons are developed in a way that encourages students to experience and reflect on a range of emotions, thoughts and behaviours. The main themes of the resource are: " relationships " resilience " identity " conformity " success " future " careers. The activities have been extensively trialled in Australian schools by teachers with varied levels of experience and confidence, as well as with students from diverse backgrounds.
Imagine being able to help your students to: " motivate themselves " persist in the face of frustration " control their impulses " regulate their moods " improve their study skills " develop goal-focused habits " have friendly, positive relationships. The Heart Masters series provides schools with an exciting way to build resilience and emotional intelligence in their students. Each volume provides the teacher or facilitator with lesson plans designed to develop the following key aspects of emotional intelligence: " the ability to read and take into consideration the feelings of others " an awareness of our own feelings " the ability to regulate or calm our feelings " a sense of contentedness and belonging. The programme has a strong language focus with emphasis on writing, reading, speaking and listening. Every session has a core activity, discussion questions, copiable worksheets and habit builders. In the green book the skills taught include: " importance of peer acceptance " team working skills " increasing behavioural independence " increasing emotional independence " questioning parents ethical systems. " coping with stress. Each lesson has comprehensive teacher notes, activities, drama and role-play extension ideas and photocopiable resources. A simple reporting / evaluation tool is included.
`Wonderful, wonderful book. Elegant in its simplicity; resourceful in its elegance. Its directed at teenage students, but its exercises and activities would be useful to people of any age, and not simply those with emotional or learning difficulties' - Joe Sincalair, Nuturing Potential Another exciting resource in the Heart Masters series to promote resilience and emotional development. Based on the work of the late Dr Chris Madden whose research with teenagers found they had eight styles of coping with pressure ranging from positive strategies (self-care and problem-solving) to negative styles (denial and acting out). The book focuses on three significant problems for teenagers: stress, behaviourand study. With full facilitator notes, discussion points, activities, worksheets and 30 copying cards this programme will help teenagers' understanding of both positive and negative responses to the challenges of teenage life.
Imagine being able to help your students to: " motivate themselves " persist in the face of frustration " control their impulses " regulate their moods " improve their study skills " develop goal-focused habits " have friendly, positive relationships. The Heart Masters series provides schools with an exciting way to build resilience and emotional intelligence in their students. Each volume provides the teacher or facilitator with lesson plans designed to develop the following key aspects of emotional intelligence: " the ability to read and take into consideration the feelings of others " an awareness of our own feelings " the ability to regulate or calm our feelings " a sense of contentedness and belonging. The programme has a strong language focus with emphasis on writing, reading, speaking and listening. Every session has a core activity, discussion questions, copiable worksheets and habit builders. In the red book the key aspects of emotional intelligence covered include: " team work " friendship " knowing your feelings and reading the feelings of others " positive self talk " the ability to regulate or calm our feelings. The key concept of Habit Building activities are designed to teach students how to generalise the learned skills beyond the classroom into their lives. Each lesson has comprehensive teacher notes, activities, drama and role-play extension ideas and photocopiable resources. A simple reporting / evaluation tool is included.
Covers issues relevant to students in the middle years of secondary school with the lessons developed in such a way to encourage students to experience and reflect on a range of emotions, thoughts and behaviours. The main themes of the resource are: relationships, resilience, identity, conformity, success, future, careers.
Cultivated by Hand aligns the overlooked history of amateur musicians in the early years of the United States with little-understood practices of music book making. It reveals the pervasiveness of these practices, particularly among women, and their importance for the construction of gender, class, race, and nation.
This book is written to assist teachers help young people who are at the on-set of adolescence to develop self awareness, skills and behaviours that will help them to manage their difficult emotions. For use in classroom lessons, or as an aid for teachers supporting young people individually.
Packed with stories and activities aimed at creating a sense of belonging for young children in the classroom, encouraging friendly behaviour and positive relationships through the development of emotional literacy. Ages 5-6.
For teachers to help young people who are at the onset of adolescence to develop awareness, skills and behaviours that will help them to manage their difficult emotions. Ages 10-15.
Teaching resource and poster for primary students which identify the key elements that help young people to develop empathic feelings and behaviour. Provides activities, worksheets and reflective questions that encourage young people to explore different elements of empathic behaviour.
Designed to encourage reflection about the many ways people cope with change. Provides a comprehensive set of activities about: stress, behaviour change, study habits"--P. 2.
Imagine being able to help your students to: " motivate themselves " persist in the face of frustration " control their impulses " regulate their moods " improve their study skills " develop goal-focused habits " have friendly, positive relationships. The Heart Masters series provides schools with an exciting way to build resilience and emotional intelligence in their students. Each volume provides the teacher or facilitator with lesson plans designed to develop the following key aspects of emotional intelligence: " the ability to read and take into consideration the feelings of others " an awareness of our own feelings " the ability to regulate or calm our feelings " a sense of contentedness and belonging. The programme has a strong language focus with emphasis on writing, reading, speaking and listening. Every session has a core activity, discussion questions, copiable worksheets and habit builders. Packed with stories and activities aimed at creating a sense of belonging for young children in the classroom. The eight themes encourage: " friendly behaviour " positive relationships " emotional literacy. Each lesson has comprehensive teacher notes, activities, drama and role-play extension ideas and photocopiable resources. A simple reporting / evaluation tool is included.
Robert Louis Stevenson, Literary Networks and Transatlantic Publishing in the 1890s investigates Stevenson and the geographies of his literary networks during the last years of his life and after his death. It profiles a series of figures who worked with Stevenson, negotiated his publications on both sides of the Atlantic, wrote for him or were inspired by him. Using archival material, correspondence, fiction and biographies it moves across these literary networks. It deploys the concept of ‘literary prosthetics’ to frame its analysis of gatekeepers, tastemakers, agents, collaborators and authorial surrogates in the transatlantic production of Stevenson’s writing. Case studies of understudied individuals and broader consideration of the networks they represent contribute to knowledge of transatlantic publishing in the 1890s, understanding of transatlantic culture, Stevenson studies, current interest in the workings of literary communities and in nineteenth-century mobility.
Generations of Americans have seen the West as beyond federal control and direction. But the national government’s presence in the West dates to before Lewis and Clark, and since 1789 a number of U.S. presidents have had a penetrating and long-lasting impact on the region. In Presidents Who Shaped the American West, noted historians Glenda Riley and Richard W. Etulain present startling analyses of chief executives and their policies, illuminating the long reach of presidential power. The authors begin each chapter by sketching a particular president’s biography and explaining the political context in which he operated while in office. They then consider overarching actions and policies that affected both the nation and the region during the president’s administration, such as Thomas Jefferson’s augmentation of the West via the Louisiana Purchase, and Andrew Jackson’s removal of American Indians from the Southeast to “Indian Country” in the West. Abraham Lincoln’s promotion of the Homestead Act, a transcontinental railroad, and western territories and states free of slavery marked further extensions of presidential power in the region. Theodore Roosevelt’s conservation efforts and Jimmy Carter’s expansion of earlier policies reflected growing public concern with the West’s finite natural resources and fragile natural environment. Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal, Dwight D. Eisenhower’s highway program, and Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society funneled federal funding into the West. In return for this largesse, some argued, the West paid the price of increased federal hegemony, and Ronald Reagan’s presidency arguably curbed that power. Riley and Etulain also discuss the most recent presidential terms and the region’s growing political power in Congress and the federal bureaucracy. With an accessible approach, Presidents Who Shaped the American West establishes the crucial and formative nature of the relationship between the White House and the West—and will encourage readers to continue examining this relationship.
Margaret Drabble is a writer whose subject matter and technique have developed profoundly since the early sixties: this book draws together the different aspects of her narrative practice, and looks at the increasing flexibility of her narrative methods, both in terms of the kind of narrator used and in the structuring of plot events. The often distanced and ironic narration is discussed, and shown to reinforce Drabble's recurrent themes - themes that include the effect of early family influence and heredity on free choice, the inexorable pressure of social changes, and the role of accident in destabilizing the confident individual. In the later novels people move in a world where they and others may be victims of a callous society, but may equally be guilty of condoning or promoting society's worst trends. This study describes how narrative increasingly becomes ambiguous, offering then withholding support for the behaviour of the characters, and challenging the reader to think again.
With a Category 5 hurricane barreling towards the southeast coast of Florida, Kayla Woodbridge is forced to cut her beach vacation with her children short and return home to prepare for the coming storm. Boone Chadwick, a new friend she met at the beach, isn't as concerned about the impending storm as Kayla is and refuses to heed her warnings to vacate the island. When the causeway bridge, the only road on and off the island, is destroyed after being struck by a barge, Boone gets stranded with eleven others from his hotel, their location in the direct path of Hurricane Phillipe’s landfall. Back at home in Nanette, Kayla is forced to face the storm alone with her children after her husband is arrested and charged with murder. The catastrophic hurricane also has another target in his sight - the protective dike surrounding Lake Okeechobee. Is the levee strong enough to withstand 150 mph winds, or will Phillipe be the hurricane that brings it down?
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