We believe that all people have the capacity to fulfill their potential as “creators of their own lives.”
This book offers teenagers a look into the challenges facing them after the death of a significant person in their life. It’s intention is to be compassionate and honest about the depression, anger, sadness and confusion that follow loss, and it offers poignant and simple suggestions to help students process and heal a wounded heart.
A sharing circle is a unique small-group discussion process where the thoughts and feelings of students are listened to and accepted. Over 100 topics with lists of the specific life skill areas addressed by each topic, suggestions for introduction of topics and questions to ask in summary. Includes step-by-step instructions for leading the circle and suggestions for organizing and managing.
This timely book provides you with specific guidance, tips and recommendations for helping immigrant parents participate actively in their children’s education and in the life of the school. This book provides you with all the essentials to:
• Communicate effectively with immigrant parents • Inform parents of your school’s expectations • Understand different cultures, customs and values, and how to put that knowledge to use • Find and utilize a cultural broker • Teach immigrant parents how to help their children succeed in school • Create counseling outreach or enhance other outreach programs • Teach parents how to give positive feedback and validation, and help their children with social skills
Research conducted at the University of Massachusetts showed that students experience increased stress during transition into middle school, not only in academics, but in their relationships with peers and teachers. These easy-to-use lessons promote successful transition for all students by developing positive study and time management skills, effective communication skills, anger management, problem solving, the use of appropriate social support, and the regular use of stress management techniques.
These ready-to-use lessons recognize that making wise choices is a teachable process and that learning the skills and habits of wise choice making reduce the incidence of risky behavior and leads to more success in school and in life.
Activities focus on developing key areas like self-concept, personal strengths, and supportive, healthy relationships and cover essential health and safety information while teaching vital decision-making skills. Fun, engaging, and packed with important information and skill practice to help kids learn to make good choices, develop healthy friendships, identify positive support groups, recognize and affirm their positive qualities and develop good decision-making and problem-solving abilities. Use these interactive lessons, discussion questions and reproducible worksheets to put kids on a speedy path to wise choice making.
Over 100 group sessions and 80 reproducible handouts cover topics such as self-concept, friendship, divorce, death, pregnancy, racial issues, sexual harassment, study skills, and more. Practical information on how to gain support, how to establish purpose and recruit students who will benefit; knowing the right amount of structure to provide, establishing and enforcing appropriate rules; evaluating student progress.
A comprehensive guide to building and maintaining an active core of committed parents who support the mission and policies of the school, work closely with teachers, help constructively with homework, set learning goals for themselves as well as their children, and share their skills with other parents.
The Do’s and Don’ts of Parent Involvement fills the voids that keep parents from becoming motivated and involved. It tells you how to have parents turn out in numbers, and precisely how to train them and effectively utilize their skills. Includes step-by-step guidelines for forming and managing parent groups, along with activities and sample tools — letters, memos, surveys, and more. Talks directly to those involved with children, from preschool through high school.
Succinct, timely, and cost-effective, Don’t Get Hooked provides everything counselors, teachers, and all those who work with kids need to educate students about tobacco use and prevention. This valuable resource can clearly help young people develop the skills and attitudes that will prevent them from getting hooked on tobacco products. Sections cover: • Learning about nicotine
• Media Influences • Refusal Skills
Each of these is developed through relevant discussions and powerful activities for individuals, small groups, and classrooms. You’ll find not only up-to-date information about nicotine as a drug, but that all these activities are based on sound practice.
Packed with instantly usable activities to help you increase your value as a counselor by working cooperatively with teachers to provide guidance activities and instruction right in the classroom. Each activity is a stimulating 30-40 minute lesson with many include reproducibles to leave behind for the teacher when you leave.
These counseling activities provide you with a step-by-step life skills program for teaching the social, interpersonal and workplace skills students need to be successful. Focuses on a number of skills, including team-building, conflict resolution, anger management, diversity/multicultural issues management, problem solving, critical thinking, and self management.
Sensitively told through words and pictures, this book provides children a gentle and loving explanation of the feelings they experience when they lose someone they love, and practical ways of processing those feelings so that healing can occur. A special section for adults provides ideas for how to talk to children about loss and grief, along with loving, practical healing activities.
Conventional wisdom has it that the way to achieve more is to study harder—put in longer hours and avoid the distraction of other people. Research suggests something different—study smarter, not necessarily harder, and use others as a support group. This book provides all the tools you’ll need to help students improve both their perceptions of themselves as achievers and their ability to apply effective learning strategies. Because everything is reproducible, just one book allows you to work with any number of students.
Students check their interpretative and prescriptive skills against 26 critical achievement factors and also by discussing and problem solving using relevant Simulated Case Histories. They further enhance their abilities and motivation to achieve by participating in Individual and Group Activities.