Teen Smart!: Ready–to–Use Activities to Help Teens Build Positive Relationships with Peers and Adults - Softcover

Grevious, Saundrah Clark

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0130226521 ISBN 13: 9780130226525

Publisher: Jossey Bass, 1999

Synopsis

Helping teens work through conflicts with each other and adults has never been more important. This comprehensive new resource gives secondary teachers over 150 ready–to–use worksheets to help students build successful working relationships with peers, teachers, parents, and other adults. Each of the five sections–Family Bonding, Character Development, Community Involvement, "It Takes a Whole Village to Raise a Child," and Choices, Changes and Challenges–is filled with activities that help students practice skills in self–improvement and collaborating with others to build more peaceful environments. The activities focus on issues such as rejection, injustice, violence, materialism, and substance abuse and encourage thoughtful, written responses that lead to meaningful dialogue.

About this title

About the Author

Saundrah Clark Grevious earned her B.A.. from Chicago Teachers College and her M.E. from Harvard University Graduate School of Education. She has over 25 years of experience teaching racially mixed and culturally diverse students in Illinois, California, Alaska, Maryland, Minnesota, and New Jersey. Mrs. Grevious presently teaches in the Piscataway Township Public Schools and frequently conducts in–service workshops in human relations and multicultural education for school staff in districts across the country. She is the author of Ready–to–Use Multicultural Activities for Primary Children (The Center, 1993).

From the Back Cover

This comprehensive new resource gives secondary teachers 154 ready–to–use worksheets to help students learn how to resolve conflicts and build effective working relationships with their peers and adults!

Each illustrated activity helps young people develop the skills they need to recognize and resolve conflicts with others and acquire true self–esteem, constructive attitudes, and positive behaviors necessary for productive lives and careers. The activities focus on issues that students can readily relate to such as rejections, bullying, gangs, and substance abuse and require thoughtful, written individual responses to encourage dialogue and examination of teen roles in creating safe environments for everyone.

For your convenience, all of these ready–to–use activities are accompanied by concise teacher directions, printed in a big 8 ¼" x 11" spiral–bound format that folds flat for easy photocopying and organized into five distinct sections. Following are brief section descriptions with a sampling of activities from each section:

• FAMILY BONDING 20 activities explore the impact family values have on a student′s self–confidence, emotional stability, and preparation for life outside of the family What My Name Means to Me...Family Favorites...What Makes You Tick?...You′ve Got the Power...Just Do What′s Right.
• CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT 38 activities help students recognize negative traits and learn how to change or control attitudes/behaviors that could prove destructive Built–in Controls...How to Survive Life′s Roller Coaster Rides...learning from Mistakes of the Past...What′s Your Worth?...Be Yourself Get Rid of Your Mask!
• COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT 30 activities develop student awareness of how and where they might function most effectively in a community Advice from the Gang...Claiming the Class Clown...Rekindling Friendships...What We Have in Common...Bending the Rules...It′s Time to Shout Out!
• "IT TAKES A WHOLE VILLAGE TO RAISE A CHILD" 30 activities foster development of self–esteem, self–confidence, mutual respect, and other survival skills as students work in concert with adults and others Developing a Deep Sense of Responsibility...Questionnaire for Peer Counselors...Just a Little Respect...Judge This!!!...ID–Card Carrying Members Only!!!
• CHOICES, CHANGES & CHALLENGES 30 activities encourage students to improve themselves via family and community relationships, to pursue educational excellence, and to plan meaningful employment opportunities Breaking Bad Habits...Making Choice for My Life...This Far and No Further...Not Me!...Who Are You in Your School...Follow the Leader Why?

You′ll also find a list of 25 objectives describing how TEEN SMART can help teenagers deal constructively with conflicts in their homes, schools, and communities, plus a set of 6 reproducible enrichment activities that explore the topics of gender and race stereotyping, cause–and–effect relationships, and human diversity!

Edition details

• Publisher: Jossey Bass
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0130226521
• ISBN 13: 9780130226525
• Binding: Spiral-bound
• Number of pages: 278