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The high-impact activities in this best-selling book are organized
to focus on the critical skills and awareness necessary to help
students prevent conflict and to successfully manage and resolve
conflict when it does occur. To achieve its goals Teaching The
Skills Of Conflict Resolution incorporates a variety of proven
instructional strategies. Activities include simulations,
role-plays, reproducible experience sheets for students to
complete, a host of engaging small and large group activities and
discussions, and Sharing Circles. Your students are learning while
participating in these multi-experiential hands-on learning
experiences designed to help them understand how their thoughts and
feelings affect their behavior and what to do to have more
self-control.Teaching the Skills of Conflict Resolution is
dedicated to the premise that children can adopt a win/win spirit
and can learn to effectively manage and resolve conflicts, and that
the pro-social attitudes and skills required are transferable to
every part of their lives for as long as they live.Areas of focus
include: Respecting Similarities and Differences Understanding and
Controlling Feelings Communicating Effectively Cooperation and Team
Building Strategies for Resolving Conflict
This innovative resource integrates counseling and guidance with
classroom instruction. Many of the engaging, counselor-led
activities also include suggestions for counselor/teacher
collaboration. Designed to foster empathy as well as creative and
critical thinking abilities, the book covers topics such as
understanding others' feelings, communication skills, friendship,
peer pressure, cooperation, bullying, safety, stress management,
ethics, setting goals, self-esteem, problem solving, anger
management, and test anxiety. Each activity of 30 to 60 minutes
includes a statement of purpose, materials needed, detailed
directions and discussion questions. Includes reproducible student
worksheets. Grades 2-8. Illustrated.
This timely book provides concrete and useful strategies to help
children get in touch with the effects of stress in their lives,
and more importantly, helps them learn what they can do about it.
Stress has an enormous impact on the ability of children to learn
and be happy. The body's defense system is built for short-term
physical stressors, not long-term psychological and emotional
stress, which can lead to health problems, memory loss, severe
learning difficulties, and angry outbursts. Less Student Stress =
More Success includes meaningful activities and impactful
"experience sheets" designed to help children understand what
causes stress, identify sources of personal stress, and learn
strategies for managing stress. Activities cover relaxation
techniques; the roles of nutrition and exercise; success strategies
such as problem solving, time management; and positive self-talk;
and tips for dealing with anger, worry, and high-stakes testing.
The relevant introduction covers current learning theory and brain
science basics.
This timely book provides concrete and useful strategies to help
students get in touch with the effects of stress in their lives,
and more importantly, helps students learn what they can do about
it. Stress has an enormous impact on the ability of students to
learn. The body's defense system is built for short-term physical
stressors, not long-term psychological and emotional stress, which
can lead to health problems, memory loss, severe learning
difficulties, and angry outbursts. Less Stress = More Success
includes meaningful activities and impactful student "experience
sheets" designed to help students understand what causes stress,
identify sources of personal stress, and learn strategies for
managing stress. Activities cover relaxation techniques; the roles
of nutrition and exercise; success strategies such as goal setting,
time management; and positive self-talk; and tips for dealing with
anger, worry, and high-stakes testing. The relevant introduction
covers current learning theory and brain science basics.
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. Focusing on developing key
areas like self-concept, personal strengths, and supportive,
healthy relationships these activities cover essential health and
safety information while teaching vital decision-making skills. Fun
and engaging, yet packed with plenty of 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.
Topic areas include: Assertiveness OTC Drugs, Smoking &
Marijuana Stress Management Peer and Gang Pressure Self-Esteem
Resistance and Refusal Skills Decision Making and Problem Solving
Media Influences Anger Management Health and Safety Friendship Role
Models and Support Systems
This valuable career resource introduces teens to the skills and
attributes needed for success in all aspects of life and work.
There is still much for teens to learn about life and how to manage
its challenges, achieve their ambitions, and get along with others.
This straight forward, delightfully illustrated, fully reproducible
book gets teens to stop, focus, and consider issues valuable to
their growth and life success. Each topic is presented as a group
of engaging, individual worksheets, which can also easily be used
as the basis for discussion and group work. This impactful book of
over 100 activity pages provides "hands-on" practice with topics
such as health and fitness, stress management, managing feelings,
handling hostility, self control, time management, taking stock of
success, learning from failure, communicating effectively,
friendship behaviors, developing a personal vision, setting
attainable goals, making wise decisions, solving problems, working
cooperatively with others, leadership, being a good team member,
assertiveness, handling peer pressure, managing anger and conflict,
and much more.
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'll find this rich and ready resource to be a complete and
creative collection of after-school activities that engage kids in
learning and having fun at the same time. 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. All activities are readily
adaptable to a variety of situations and skill levels.An ideal
resource for every after-school or other out-of-school venue. The
activities help all children to: cultivate self-awareness and
positive self-esteem learn to value family and community
connections and develop a sense of belonging work collaboratively,
with consideration for others focus on listening, speaking,
reading, and writing - important aspects of literacy and
communication develop effective problem-solving and decision-making
skills engage their feelings of wonder and appreciation for the
natural world
The lessons in this easy-to-use activity book are designed to
develop in your students the skills, behaviors, attitudes, and
perspectives that lead to emotional literacy. Social competence,
self-management abilities, and respectful, responsible living are
all vital aspects of healthy social and emotional development. As
such these skills and behaviors support learning, positive
behavior, personal development and well-being. The carefully
designed activities in this book will engage your student's minds
in learning and their heart's in embracing such valuable life
lessons as: Respecting Self and Others Encouraging Trust and
Honesty Expressing Gratitude Developing Empathy and Compassion
Being Responsible and Dependable Cooperating with Others
Controlling Anger Managing Conflict Overcoming Harmful Peer
Pressure Reducing Prejudice and Stereotyping Valuing Differences
Practicing Non-Violent Communication Exploring Win-Win Strategies
Making Friends Speaking Up Against Bullying Eliminating Put-Downs
and Gossip
Teach teens how to handle important life issues and concerns with
these easy-to-use, entirely reproducible worksheets. Understanding
Me contains more than 85 relevant activity pages all designed to
promote student insight and understanding around significant life
skill areas. These relevant activity sheets are also designed to
provide suggestions for generating discussion and background for
teacher/counselor led presentations. Topic areas include:
Decision-makingManaging time Problem-solving Managing conflict
Communication Trust Listening Justice Leadership Money Goal setting
Creativity Friendship Values Careers Initiative Responsibility
Packed with meaningful information for teens to learn new ideas,
attitudes, behaviors, perspectives, and skills while promoting
self-awareness and self-esteem these flexible worksheets can be
used by anyone working with teens - teachers, counselors, youth
group and after-school leaders, homeschoolers, and parents.
Current research is establishing the importance of teaching such
social and emotional skills as kindness, tolerance, respect,
empathy, responsibility, self-control, and cooperation. We now know
that repeated experiences impact the brain and shape the person.
The more children are exposed to these concepts and practice these
skills, the stronger the underlying mental circuits become. It is
through this development that kids become caring and capable.The
group activities, short stories, songs, reproducible activity
sheets, Sharing Circles, and thought-provoking discussion questions
provided in this award-winning book address qualities inherent in
caring people. The skills that develop are those that make children
capable. They include: Keeping agreements Developing responsible
habits Effectively solving problems Demonstrating respect for self
and others Being loyal, trustworthy, and honest Following rules
Demonstrating kindness, consideration, and empathy Peacefully
resolving conflicts Developing self-management skills, and Learning
to be a team member
These Immediately usable and highly impactful activities naturally
draw out the best in students and inspire the development of
universally valued character traits. Virtues, Values, and the Very
Best You uses proven strategies that engage students in meaningful
interactions and self-reflection that teach the real-life benefit
of "doing the right thing'. Unit themes include: Trustworthiness,
Respect, Responsibility, Justice and Fairness, Caring, Citizenship,
Moral Decision-making, and Service Learning. Specific activities
teach such learning as: The consequences of cheating and lying, How
to develop healthy friendships, How to respond respectfully to
others, The qualities and characteristics of our heroes and stars,
The value in responsible behavior, How to accept responsibility and
not blame others, Identifying justice and fairness in real life,
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. This book is a valuable and practical resource for
classroom, counseling, and youth group instructors interested in
enhancing character and virtue in their students.
Research indicates that IQ contributes only about 20 percent to the
factors that determine success. The other 80 percent of the factors
are related to EQ-emotional intelligence. Emotional intelligence
impacts every area of life-health, learning, behavior and
relationships. Teaching children and youth to understand, manage,
and productively express their emotional intelligence pays big
dividends in all areas of their lives and yours. In response to the
growing EQ movement these activity guides have been developed based
on the ground-breaking brain and behavioral research on emotional
intelligence. The result is a complete emotional literacy program.
Each book contains a comprehensive overview of emotional
intelligence theory-what it is, why it has become such a hot topic
in education, and its scientific basis in brain research, plus
concrete suggestions for "schooling" the emotions. Each unit
includes a thematic overview, stimulating age-appropriate
activities and lively discussion topics.
Teach your students the vital skills of successful social
interaction that will last a lifetime. Included are scores of
concrete, instantly usable activities, discussions, games,
simulations, worksheets, and Sharing Circles that engage students
in learning specific pro-social skills in an enjoyable fashion. The
activities in Getting Along are designed to address these skills in
a deliberate manner and in the process elevate the awareness of
students to the responsibility that each has to make the classroom,
school, or youth development group into a cooperative, inclusive
place where healthy friendships develop and conflict is dealt with
productively.Focus areas include: Appreciating differences
Communicating clearly and effectively Developing healthy
friendships Helping others Including others Resolving conflicts
Team building
100 social-emotional learnings games that children should play.
Grab the attention of your students with something that's fun and
important to them-games. This enjoyable, eclectic, collection of
kid-friendly games focuses on a win-win approach while teaching
valuable skills of cooperation, inclusion, full participation and
creativity. Everyone plays, learns, has fun, and no one loses.
Written with easy to follow step-by-step instructions, the wide
variety of games offer hours of activities. Everything from
physical action games to brain games to creating games, and more.
If you're working with kids in any capacity, you need this book.
Designed for you to be able to develop positive interations that
involve all kids-especially important for the shy and socially
neglected child.
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