Helping Teens Reach Their Dreams

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Dianne Schilling & Susanna Palomares

A successful education is more than academic learning. It also inspires young people to develop positive attitudes, to work at understanding and respecting themselves and others, to learn to make sound decisions, to solve simple and complex problems, to develop resilient, renewable motivation and to transform their dreams into goals.

The profound learning activities in this book provide middle and high school students active, meaningful exploration and consideration of invaluable life skills  needed for them to be successful students and fulfilled, contributing adults.

This book will provide you with are over 60 immediately usable activities and reproducible work sheets designed to help you teach your students:

• How to develop written goals and learn proven steps for achieving goals
• The best way to make deliberate, considered decisions
• How to communicate effectively through verbal and nonverbal  expression
• How to really listen to others and show them you are doing so
• What impedes good communication, and what can be done to remedy problems and misunderstandings
• How to accurately interpret the nonverbal communication and body language of others
• The most important traits for working cooperatively with others
• How feelings affect thoughts and behaviors, and how this knowledge can lead to constructive habits of self-control
• What skills, attributes, and values keep successful people going and how to make them your own

Table of Contents

Introduction

• Attitude
• Thoughts, Feelings, and Behaviors
• Make Your Feelings Work for You! (Experience Sheet)
• I Think, Therefore I Feel
• You Can Help How you Feel! (Experience Sheet)
• Can You Hear Yourself Talk?
• When You Talk To Yourself, What Do You Say? (Experience Sheet)
• Talking to Yourself
• Coping with Anger
• Getting a Handle on Hostility (Experience Sheet)

Communication

• Identifying Blocks to Communication
• Communication Blockers (Experience Sheet)
• Play It Back!
• The Active Listener
• Listening Actively (Experience Sheet)
• The I’s Have It!
• Don’t Say “You”—Say “I” (Experience Sheet)
• Words Are Only Part of It
• Body Talk (Experience Sheet)
• Follow My Lead
• Words and Symbols
• Giving and Receiving Feedback
• What Is Feedback? (Experience Sheet)

Goal Setting

• The Power of Expectations
• Building a Reasonable Expectation
• Please, Be Reasonable (Experience Sheet)
• What’s So Important About Goals?
• So, Who’s in Charge of Your Life, Anyway? (Experience Sheet)
• Learning About Ourselves
• Who Am I? (Experience Sheet)
• Developing a Personal Vision
• Man With a Vision (Experience Sheet)
• My Personal Vision (Experience Sheet)
• Setting and Attaining Goals
• You Can Reach Your Goals! (Experience Sheet)
• Tips for Setting Goals (Experience Sheet)
• Supporting Goals Through Visualizations and Affirmations
• What You See Is What You Get (Experience Sheet)
• What You Say Is What You Get (Experience Sheet)
• The Value of Rewards
• A Pat on the Back (Experience Sheet)
• One of My Goals Is…

Decision Making

• Decisions, Decisions!
• The Decision-Making Process (Experience Sheet)
• Decisions and Outcomes
• More About Decisions (Experience Sheet)
• Factoring a Decision
• Increasing Your Alternatives (Experience Sheet)
• The Key Word Is Choice
• The Choice Is Yours! (Experience Sheet)
• Steps for Solving a Problem Responsibly
• Steps for Solving a Problem Responsibly (Experience Sheet)
• Youth Can Solve Problems
• Dear Matilda
• Imagining Alternatives
• Have a Heart!

Motivation

• Significant People Who Have Influenced My Life
• How They Got Where They Are Today
• Interview Form (Experience Sheet)
• Managing Time
• Control Your Time (Experience Sheet)
• How I Influence Others
• Measuring Success
• Success Takes Guts (Experience Sheet)
• These People Did

Primary Subject Area – Life Skills

Grade 7-12, 152 pages, 8-1/2 x 11, paperback