How to Stop Bullying and Social Aggression is a research-based resource for K6 classrooms offering fun, interactive lessons and activities that simplify the instruction of skills critical to students' safety and well-being, promote healthy social-emotional development, and improve academic achievement. In clear, jargon-free language, the authors provide teachers, administrators, and counselors with strategies for engaging bullies, victims, and bystanders at their own level and include step-by-step explanations for every activity. This user-friendly resource also features: Sidebars, sample scripts, and icons that highlight important information Suggestions for enhancing lessons A supply list of commonly found classroom items within each lesson for quick and easy implementation This book also helps school districts meet the curriculum requirements of recently enacted bullying laws by fostering positive youth development around issues of respect, conflict resolution, and interpersonal relationships.

This book is designed to serve as a personal development resource for all who work in schools and have responsibility for the spiritual, moral, cultural, mental and physical development of pupils. It provides materials for staff development activities and resources for use in classrooms. The first section covers the background, relating to the Every Child Matters agenda; the second section offers practical strategies for implementing the key components of spiritual and moral development as outlined in the first section. >

This easy-to-use resource for teachers, counsellors, and school administrators working with children ages 6-9 uses instructional principles to help educators model effective life skills behaviours: - breaking tasks and challenges into manageable pieces - modeling solutions - structuring opportunities for practice - providing feedback - and affirming progress. The book offers units covering topics that include the child who doesn't have friends, who does poorly in sports, who has difficulty learning, who steals, who tells lies, who bullies others. Each unit provides a succinct discussion of the topic for the educator, a 10-minute read-aloud story, strategic thinking questions, optional paper-and-pencil activities, and photocopiable exercises. The book includes two appendices to guide the teacher through more complex psychological problems and psychological overlay, which may require referral and counselling. This book will be an essential resource for every primary teacher who wants to help guide learners through many of the developmental challenges of childhood.

Creating Positive Images: A Guide for Young People is important for young adults who want to be successful in personal and professional life. Patsy Johnson Hallman explains how the value of being able to project a positive self-image is three-fold. First, making a good impression gives us confidence. And with confidence, we are more comfortable, and life is more satisfying than when we are lacking confidence. Second, when we project a positive self-image we are more likely to get the response we want from other people. This is true, because in general, people respond positively if they are approached positively. And third, as individuals, we are more productive when we are positive.In Creating Positive Images, Hallman provides information that can be useful to young people who want to build skills for social interaction. Features: A discussion on how one presents oneself in a positive manner: Ways one interacts successfully with people in a wide range of social and professional situations. This book was written to assist pre-professionals and new professionals in conducting themselves for optimum success.

Now a national priority, character education is being implemented by schools and other public and private organizations across the United States. Whether you are establishing a character education program or looking for an effective way to teach your children the importance of values and good character, this book, loaded with nearly 300 resources, can help. Each of the 17 chapters focuses on a specific trait or virtue and identifies dozens of picture books, novels, biographies, and nonfiction titles that illustrate the trait and can be used as springboards to discussions. Introduced with a description, each chapter features annotations, cross-references to other traits, famous quotes, discussion starters, activity suggestions, and collaborative reading titles. An indispensable resource and reference guide, this book is essential for coaching young citizens in positive behavior.

Children, particularly those with special needs, can require considerable help in learning how to relate to other people and how to behave positively and appropriately in social situations. In this practical and helpful book, Marianna Csoti emphasises the benefits that learning communication and social skills can have for these children, including better friendships and increased self-esteem. The numerous detailed tasks and practical examples enable parents, professionals and carers to work with children on improving their social skills and social awareness, and respecting themselves and other people. Topics covered include: Helping children with special needs Making and keeping friends Social rules Body language Feelings, including shyness and anger Listening skills Social safety. Suitable for use with children aged 7-16, on a one-to-one basis or in small groups, this practical and comprehensive book will be an invaluable resource for anyone wanting to help children to increase their social understanding and awareness.

A definitive guide to spiritual, moral, social and cultural education (SMSC). It seeks to bridge the gap between theory and practice in this area. It places SMSC in the context of numerous developments in education generally, including those in the area of vocational education, civics and citizenship education, assessment and school inspection. Contributors include both academics and practitioners. The book, which includes research findings, confronts such topical and practical issues as teaching methods and whole school policy.

Suicide is a significant problem for many adolescents in Native American Indian populations. "American Indian Life Skills Development Curriculum" is a course for high school students and some middle school students that is designed to drastically reduce suicidal thinking and behavior.
Created in collaboration with students and community members from the Zuni Pueblo and the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, this curriculum addresses key issues in Native American Indian adolescents' lives and teaches such life skills as communication, problem solving, depression and stress management, anger regulation, and goal setting. The course is unique in its skills-based approach. After first increasing awareness and knowledge of suicide, it then teaches students specific methods to help a peer turn away from suicidal thinking and seek help from an appropriate help-giver.
The skills-based approach of this curriculum follows well-established teaching methods to develop social skills. Teachers and peers inform students of the rationale and components of a particular skill, model and demonstrate the skill for them, and later provide feedback on individual skill performance.

Children need to be taught at a young age the importance of stewardship, but giving them financial advice that's too complex can overwhelm and discourage them. In "Money Matters for Kids," financial author and teacher Larry Burkett provides fun and creative tools to help children understand and apply the biblical concept of stewardship. Contains jokes, puzzles, and other fun activities and exercises that make it easy for parents to teach children godly money management principles.

Empathy helps us to understand the feelings, perspectives, and situations of other people. Being able to put yourself in someone else's shoes helps you to be kind to others and be a person that others depend on for help. This empowering title offers helpful ideas, practical tips, and inspiring stories about how having empathy for others can help you reach your goals. From how to listen respectfully to the concerns of others to ways you can be a positive light in the lives of those around you, learn how to step forward with empathy to understand and help others! Teacher's guide available.

This picture book story explores feelings of anger in a light-hearted way using everyday situations that children might be familiar with. This book shows different reasons why young people might become angry, illustrates scenarios of them behaving angrily, and gives advice on how to calm anger in yourself and to be able to help other people. Ideal for home or classroom, this book contains notes for parents and teachers with suggestions of ways to help children deal with feeling angry. Harry, wakes up to an angry dad running late for work and Harry helps the dad to calm down and take his time instead of rushing. At school, a small boy is angry with another child for taking his toy, so Harry helps them to take turns and keep calm. At home, Harry's sister, Susie, has a tantrum because she wants to eat a biscuit but her mum says no because it's nearly teatime. Harry helps to distract his sister and explain why she shouldn't be angry with her mum. He also helps his mum to count to ten so that she isn't angry with Susie! However, at bedtime, Harry isn't ready to go to bed and it's his turn to get angry. Time for his family to take Harry's advice and help him manage his feelings. Illustrated by the ever-popular and award-winning illustrator Mike Gordon, this book is part of a series of stories about feelings and emotions for 4 to 8-year-old children, which help children to understand their feelings and work out the best way to deal with them. This will boost their self-esteem and reinforce good behaviour.They support the Personal, Social and Emotional Development Area of Learning in the Early Years Foundation Stage. Other titles are: Feeling Frightened, Feeling Jealous, Feeling Sad, Feeling Shy and Feeling Worried

Offering ideas for different ways to teach PSHE, this is a go-to resource for the busy teacher looking for creative and engaging techniques. It provides tips, case studies and strategies on planning and pitching sessions as well as weaving PSHE into other aspects of the curriculum. The practical advice includes tips for what works with pupils, ideas for group games, ways to make discussions more engaging and proven techniques for creating inspiring sessions. The book explores a range of complex PSHE topics such as social media, sex and sexuality, mental health and British values. This tried-and-tested guidance will help to give teachers the confidence to create accessible and dynamic skills-based sessions which can make a real difference to pupils.

Meet Maya. Maya always tries to be polite, and to remember to say 'thank you' but she wants to learn what it means to be truly grateful. Should she be grateful to her teachers for their hard work, even though they're only doing their job? Does she need to say thank you for the gifts she doesn't really like - like the pink scarf Nani gave her last birthday? And when Laura gives her some earrings but later asks to copy her history project in return, should Maya be grateful and give her the thank you letter she has written? This illustrated book is an ideal conversation starter for children aged 7+, helping them to understand what gratitude means, recognise when it is appropriate, and develop their own ability to be genuinely grateful.