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

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 ?" 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 student2s self-confidence, emotional stability, and preparation for life outside of the family - What My Name Means to Me...Family Favorites...What Makes You Tick'...You2ve Got the Power...Just Do What2s 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 Life2s Roller Coaster Rides...learning from Mistakes of the Past...What2s 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...It2s 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? You2ll 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!Saundrah Clark Grevious is the author of 'Teen Smart!: Ready-to-Use Activities to Help Teens Build Positive Relationships with Peers and Adults', published 1999 under ISBN 9780130226525 and ISBN 0130226521.