The Power of Social Skills in Character Development


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This book gives you 80 powerful, classroom-tested lesson plans. A complete program for helping your students gain self-esteem and improve relationships with peers, teachers and adults outside of school.







PRIMED for Character Education


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Winner of the 2023 Outstanding Book Award from AERA's Moral Development and Education SIG! In PRIMED for Character Education, renowned character educator Marvin W Berkowitz boils down decades of research on evidence-based practices and thought-provoking field experience into a clear set of principles that leaders, administrators, and teacher-leaders can implement to help students thrive. The author’s original six-component framework offers a comprehensive guide to shaping purposeful learning environments, healthy relationships, core values and virtues, role models, empowerment, and long-term development in any PreK-12 school or district. This engaging and heartfelt book features tips for practice, anecdotes from award-winning schools, and straightforward tenets from moral education, social-emotional learning, and positive psychology.




It Starts in the Classroom


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Few character education books published in the 21st century have addressed the resource needs of P-12 teachers. It Starts in the Classroom: Character Education for a Better Tomorrow is a “character education tool kit” that enables P-12 teachers, teachers-in-training, counselors, administrators, and coaches to see themselves as the “key” character educators in their schools, classrooms, and community. This book helps bring humanity, student engagement, and other life skills into the classroom that have been proven to increase student academic achievement. Ultimately, It Starts in the Classroom helps teachers see that they are, in fact, really changing the world for the better. This book shows them how to do this not only with their students but with themselves. With the current state of our world, character education is needed now more than ever. Things can get better, but it starts in the classrooms—with the teachers and the students.




Character-building Activities


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Nearly 100 activities which can be used in school or in other settings to help preteens and teens deal with a variety of issues, including self-esteem, peer pressure, bullies, anger, and stress.




Test Anxiety & What You Can Do About It


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Dr. Kenneth Shore, family and educational psychologist presents an innovative plan to address bullying prevention across all constituencies who play a role in a school community. Through the use of the video and the accompanying manual, each stakeholder group learns critical information on what he/she can do to specifically address, reduce and eliminate bullying in our schools.




Social Skills for Kids


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Help your children develop essential social skills—including groups, one-on-one interactions, and virtual communication—with these 150 easy, fun activities to teach your kids how to socially succeed. From taking turns to making eye contact to staying engaged during conversations, developing appropriate social skills is an important factor for kids to be able to succeed in school and life in general. But how can you tell if your child is really making progress while you read the same stories, have the same conversations, and chaperone the same playdates? The answer is to add some variety to your child’s daily activities with these 150 exercises specially designed to keep your child (and their friends) entertained, all while teaching them effective social skills. In Social Skills for Kids, you’ll learn everything you need to know about how social skills develop in children and what you can do to support their growth. In this book, you’ll find games to encourage them in group settings, activities that you (or another caregiver) can do alone with your child, and ways to make the most of virtual interactions for social skill development. So whether you’re looking for new activities to entertain a few friends during playtime, searching for fun (and educational) games you and your child can play together, or even interested in ways to include people you can’t physically visit, Social Skills for Kids has all the tools you need to help your child develop the social skills they need to succeed.




Social Skills


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The keys that unlock better social skills and better communication can be found here -get science-based interventions that work! Do you dread meeting new people? Do you worry that people find you uninteresting? Do you immediately panic at the thought of speaking in front of people? This is a common issue for most people. But very few ever get to understand WHY. For many of us suffering from negative emotions, beliefs, and poor social skills, it's difficult to adopt the positive mindset and confidence we need to take our careers and personal lives further. This is because we lack the understanding to make the much-needed internal shift that allows us to sustain new habits, beliefs, and productive behaviors. To make these 'internal' changes in how we think, feel, and act, we need to be aware of where the fear that drives our 'default' behaviors stems from. In this book, you will discover the incredible power of CBT and meditation for understanding your emotions, setting yourself free from negative beliefs, and improving your social skills. Here's what you'll learn from this book: - Deep dive into the questions that uncover the factors at play in our development as unique individuals: is personality inherited and if so, to what extent? What makes some people 'naturals' when it comes to social interaction, and why do other people struggle? Is it possible to influence personality, and if so, to what extent? And more! - Learn and adopt research-backed interventions: driven by Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and traditional Eastern practices, mindfulness, and meditation, how you think and what you think about will be brought into the spotlight and addressed systematically and effectively. - Get a better understanding of how personality is shaped by genetics and the environment: gain more self-knowledge and accelerate the internal change required to make lasting changes to your behavior, including improving your social skills - Positively transform the way you think and respond to your environment: learn powerful activities that you can practice regularly to improve how you behave in different social contexts-not just in the short term but also in the long term And so much more! Even if you've never had much luck with other approaches before, Detox Your Mind Now will help you find your way to a better, more confident, vibrant, and happier you! If you really want to get the most out of self-help books on topics that teach better social skills and communication, then you'll be grateful you read this book first!




Social


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Social skills are more important than ever in todays growing economy. Social: The Power of Relationships provide a deep insight on building your social skills so you can be more successful at home, school, and work.




Games and Learning Alliance


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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Games and Learning Alliance, GALA 2016, held in Utrecht, The Netherlands, in December 2016. The 27 revised regular papers presented together with 14 poster papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 55 submissions. The papers cover topics such as games and sustainability; games for math and programming; games and health; games and soft skills; games and management; games and learning; game development and assessment; and mobile games.