This timely and practical curriculum guide is designed to help students develop the skills and attributes needed to be successful in high school, college, and later in adulthood - at work, at home, and in the community. A complete, relevant, and up-to-date life skills and leadership program, Preparing Students for Success and Leadership in College and Careers, guides students in learning to set goals, build career futures, work collaboratively and improve inter-personal skills. With over 140 engaging activities, group Sharing Circles, and reproducible experience sheets you'll be able to get your students thinking about their futures and planning for what they can do to have the lives they want. Unit topics include: Self-Awarness and Self-Esteem Social Skills and Friendship Inclusion and Interdependence Communication and Conversational Skills Setting and Attaining Goals Decision Making and Problem Solving Cooperation and Team Building Leading and Following Self Determination and Personal Mastery Exploring Careers
Succinct, timely, and cost-effective, Don't Get Hooked: Tobacco Awareness and Prevention Activities provides everything counselors, teachers, and all those who work with kids need to educate students about tobacco use and prevention. Sections cover the following focus areas: Learning about Nicotine Media Influences Refusal Skills Each of these is developed through brief, interesting discussions and fun, memorable activities for individuals, small groups, and classrooms. This book provides up-to-date information about nicotine as a drug and is based on sound practice and current research.
This unique, easy-to-implement, and highly effective discussion process is based on years of experience in teaching and leading discussion groups worldwide. Through participation in Sharing Circles, students get to know who they are, how they function, how they relate to others, and they learn to believe in themselves.
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.
This reference can help underachieving students learn that they can be in charge of their own achievement by giving them the awareness and tools to do so.
Through these easy-to-implement, high-interest activities, children learn new and effective skills and behaviors for getting along with others and managing their own emotions.Social-emotional skills are fundamental to success in life, and children should be consistently helped to develop them.This rich and ready resource is packed with everything you need to bring these important skills to life with your group of kids. It's full of stimulating, enjoyable experiences that you can grasp at a glance and use immediately.Activities help children to: work collaboratively and considerately with others learn important aspects of communicating - listening, speaking, writing, and reading value and respect individual differences manage difficult emotions learn refusal and resistance skills activate positive esteem and self-awareness develop a sense of belonging
This learning guide for the elementary grades teaches your students how to reduce and control anger and to settle disputes in a pro-social manner. These student-tested activities help children to: understand the dynamics of conflict and anger improve communication skills examine the cause and effect of conflict become aware of their sources of anger appreciate different perspectives distinguish between the language of anger escalation and effective resolution develop tolerance manage anger and aggression achieve win-win outcomes. This book is chock full of enjoyable, challenging activities that include step-by-step guidelines, reproducible experience sheets, and relevant discussion questions that encourage higher order thinking and collaborative problem solving. A highlight of this book is the section presenting a unique role-playing process that makes positive behavioral rehearsal easy, fun and relevant. This is a must have book for all educators who want to develop in their students the important social-emotional skills of creative conflict resolution and anger management. Use these high-impact lessons to teach your students to become conscious of the choices they typically make in anger and conflict situations, and to learn real-life strategies to replace ineffective behaviors with those that work. Grade Levels: K-6
Activities, discussions, role plays, simulations, and worksheets in this resource have been designed to help children explore, understand, and express their feelings in safe and acceptable ways. Easy-to-understand explanations are coupled with skill practice to promote healthy responses to intense and sometimes overwhelming emotions.
You'll find dozens of high-interest activities, discussions, role plays, simulations, and reproducible handouts that develop self-motivation, positive attitudes, effective communication, decision-making, problem-solving and planning skills, reasonable self-expectations and a personal vision. This book helps you demonstrate to your students that the gap between dreams and accomplishments is filled, not with luck and more dreaming, but with planning and action. Teach your students how to develop written goals, make deliberate, considered decisions, create step-by-step plans of action, understand and effectively use self-talk and affirmations to control their attitudes
You and your kids will love these fun, enjoyable, delightfully illustrated, ready-to-use worksheets. Eighty-eight separate activity sheets involve your students in the development of their own self-concept, confidence, awareness, and resiliency. Organized around recognized building blocks of social-emotional learning; identity; belonging; purpose; and competence, they provide quick, easily implemented expericences in vital issues. Appropriate for use with individuals, small groups and classrooms. Grade 3
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.
Smiling Inside, Smiling Outside is an ideal resource for teachers, counsellors, and parents of children in their early years. It will help children to develop positive perceptions of themselves and their place in the world. The book contains 90 activities that can be grasped at a glance and used immediately, with minimal preparation. They will also help children to focus on listening, speaking and writing, all of which are important aspects of communication. The children will: develop positive esteem and self-awareness; learn to value family and community; develop a sense of belonging; work collaboratively; and develop an appreciation of the natural world.
This document contains a set of reproducible activity sheets for teachers to use in enhancing the self-esteem of their students. Designed to supplement other approaches being used by teachers, the activities in this book can be used to infuse esteem-building activities into the core curriculum. The activities are organized around several recognized building blocks of self-esteem: identity, belonging, purpose and competence. Activities designed to affect identity issues focus on learning to like oneself, identifying one's unique abilities, identifying one's interests, expressing creativity, and learning to use positive self-talk. Activities devoted to the belonging aspect of self-esteem focus on friendship, interpersonal communication, recognizing uniqueness and positive qualities in others, and constructing a family tree and identifying one's roots. The skills of problem solving, decision making, and goal setting are given special attention in the section on purpose and competence, each through a series of sequential activity sheets. (NB)
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)
Written for parents, this workbook provides easy-to-read information about tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs, along with step-by-step instructions for activities that promote family interaction. The first part of the book contains general information for parents about developing the kind of family bonding and harmony that lead to enhanced self-esteem in the children and lessens their chances of getting into trouble with drugs. Included in this section are practice sheets for parents to use in developing the skills described. The second part of the workbook provides information about important skills that can best be developed in a family setting. In this section are activity sheets designed for children from preschool through high school age. Individual chapters focus on: (1) strengthening family bonds through family sharing circles, family meetings, and learning how to praise one's children; (2) creating family policies and developing workable rules; (3) developing essential life skills by helping one's children learn to make decisions, solve problems, set goals, and say "no"; (4) learning about tobacco, alcohol and other drugs; and (5) family fun involving everyone. The chapter on tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs includes a list of resources to call or write for further information. The chapter on family fun highlights the value of reading and includes lists of books related to a variety of topics that promote positive attitudes and healthy life choices. (NB)
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