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TITLE
Life Skills 6
TEXTBOOK
No specific text used in this class.
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This is a six-week course that is informal in nature and consists of numerous
in-class activities designed to help students understand themselves better and
to improve relationships with others. Units include listening skills,
self-awareness activities, non-verbal communication, decision-making,
problem-solving, stress management, reducing prejudice, goal-setting and
overcoming obstacles.
COURSE OBJECTIVES
1. Students will study the importance of both verbal and non-verbal
communication to get a complete message.
2. Students will use the process of elimination, trial and error, brainstorming,
and asking questions to do problem solving activities.
3. Students will study aspects of decision-making, including the PRIDE
decision-making model, personal values, and seeking wise counsel.
4. Students will study the SMART model of goal setting and learn how to overcome
obstacles and adjust their goals if needed.
5. Students will study ways to reduce stress in their lives.
6. Students will work together in group activities to learn more about
themselves and others.
7. Students will study ways to say positive things to others and to themselves
and not put others or themselves down.
8. Students will study about racial and other forms of prejudice and emphasize
the need to treat others with respect.
9. Students will study how important their attitudes are to themselves and how
their attitudes affect others as well.
WRITING ACTIVITIES
1. Students will do self-awareness writings such as: "Inside/Outside", "Look
What I've Done", "and "Who Am I".
2. Students will write responses to open-ended questions.
3. Students will write a description of themselves that other students will
attempt to match with the individual.
4. Students will write a short-term goal.
5. Students will write short answer response to videos watched to check for
comprehension, opinions, and self-application.
MULTICULTURE ACTIVITIES
1. Students will read short stories that deal with over coming prejudice.
2. Students will view a video that illustrates the Black Civil rights movement
in the 1960's.
3. Students will learn that there are many diverse groups of people in the world
and that they may not always agree or understand them, but that they may need to
treat them as they would like to be treated.
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