This four-part workshop teaches the life skills students need to get along better in school, at home, with friends, and on the job, now and in the future. Shows them the characteristics of healthy and unhealthy relationships, how to act assertively, communicate clearly and respectfully, avoid communication roadblocks, and head off and resolve conflict. Role-plays, handouts, and individual and group activities provide practice in the skills.
Follows a group of middle schoolers as they experience relationship problems and then master the skills needed to solve them. Calling respect for others the key to relationships, shows viewers how to take action to make a relationship better: how to stand up for their values under peer pressure; say what they feel, listen actively and read body language; understand the difference between assertiveness and aggressiveness; communicate in a more grown-up way with adults; and use negotiation and compromise to avoid and resolve conflict.
Handouts provide role-plays and opportunities for the skills practice that will help students better manage their relationships. Program comes complete with suggestions for using the workshop, master copies of the handouts, and an extensive bibliography.
Reviews
~ Recommended by: Youth Today;
~ Recommended by: The Book Report;
~ Recommended by: School Library Journal
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