We believe that all people have the capacity to fulfill their potential as “creators of their own lives.”
Help pre-teen students in small or large groups learn to manage their own behavior with these dynamic activities. These lessons come right to the point teaching specific skills and strategies needed to gain self control and manage anger.
Building Character in Kids
Virtues, Values, and the Very Best You uses proven strategies that engage students in meaningful interactions and self-reflection while teaching them to reason ethically and behave morally.
Here are the activities you need to keep kids engaged while teaching such learnings as:
• The consequences of cheating and lying • How to develop healthy friendships • How to respond respectfully to others • The value in responsible behavior • How to accept responsibility and not blame others • 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.
Includes over 60 high-interest activities, stories, reproducibles, role plays, and discussions.
Follows on from the worldís top-selling book by the same authors, The Learning Revolution, which sold 10.2 million copies in China alone. This book spells out for general readers, lifelong learners, students, teachers, school administrators and governments how to change the total education system. Each of its 14 chapters is a mini-book in itself: on learning how to learn, learning how to think, learning digital technology and reinventing every form of schooling.
The title of this program is a strong indication of the valuable “treasures” that lie within. This outstanding collection of group activities is designed to assist children in fostering development in three critical areas of human functioning: self-awareness, social competency, and mastery. The easy to use activities and reproducible
Student pages are organized into these vital topics: Life Skills, Learning Strategies, Health and Wellness, Emotional Intelligence, Diversity, Conflict Management, Character, and Careers.
One of the most important things students can learn in school is how to learn.† Studying, Test Taking, and Getting Good Grades falls solidly within the “how to learn” category. Taken from a broad variety of disciplines, it goes beyond basic study skills to address motivation, personal responsibility, diet, exercise, the brain, and numerous other topics. This entirely reproducible student activity book is designed to (1) build a base of understanding and skill development in the broad spectrum of learning, studying, and test-taking; (2) provide opportunities for students to apply this knowledge to their own lives; and (3) provide opportunities to practice and discuss new information and skills so students are better prepared to apply these techniques and skills in all subject areas. This materialís flexibility is a great assetóit is useful for counselors and teachers to use in individual, group, or classroom formats and for parents and students to use on their own.
Counselors, Teachers, Occupational Therapists, and activity leaders will have just as much fun teaching these lessons as their students do experiencing them! These activities appeal to a child’s sense of adventure and need to move by utilizing five active learning strategies to present the concepts: Movement, Visualization, Application of the Senses, and Novel/Unique Connections. Appropriate for children Pre-K through 3rd grade, lessons can presented in either a forty-five minute to sixty minute block, or two sessions of thirty minutes or less. Each lesson is comprised of two parts. First, an introduction, which presents the lesson concept with an attention getting analogy followed by engaging discussion questions for the students, enabling the teacher to self evaluate the presentation of the lesson objectives; then, a practice, which provides active processing of the learned concepts through a game. Each lesson has a teacher follow- up section which includes classroom connections to childrenís literature or other academic subjects, as well as classroom management techniques. Chapters include :Self- Discovery, Self-Control, Problem Solving, Emotional Management, Communication Skills, and Learning and Career.