Practical and creative ideas and activities for managing challenging behaviour in young peopleBy Sue JenningsThese practical activities and ideas help those working with young people to address issues of challenging behaviour ranging from low-level disruption to more extreme aggression. Background information includes definitions of challenging behaviour, emotional & behavioural difficulties; understanding challenging behaviour & strategies for coping. The activities will help young...
By Patricia DwyerDealing with behaviour problems, students with difficulties, developing policies, promoting positive strategies, resolving disputes – are core concerns for teachers, principals, management, parents and policy makers. Indeed there are few more challenging issues in education today. The work of Patricia Dwyer at the Centre for Education Services addresses all of these concerns in a most effective, resourceful and practical manner. This guide weaves together the key elements...
Activities to engage with young people to improve attendance, time management, study skills, positive thinking, conflict resolution and anger management By Stephanie George. Engaging with young people as a mentor can be difficult but Stephanie George draws on years of experience to provide tried-and-tested activities that will help. The activities provide specific structured tasks that can be used during mentoring meetings and to support mentoring intervention. The activities will build rapport,...
Cards of games and activities that are not only fun but will also develop social and life skills at the same time By E A Morris. The carefully selected games involve role-play situations, discussion and working in groups. They include: Getting to Know Me Game - works on improving relationships, communicating better, facilitating interaction Be a Detective Game - works on improving relationships, communicating better, thinking skills and giving feedback The Who I Am Game - works on...
This book is ideal for anyone working with young people who want to address bullying issues By Stephanie George, Patricia St Louis, Jeba Begum & Jacqueline MorrisonThis book of 56 activities will help professionals to work through bullying issues with young people and address the underlying causes. The content covers: · The impact of the group · Belonging · Social settings · Norms · Values · Peer groups · Friendships · Power · Isolation · Responsibility · Restorative work · Conciliation...
IMPORTANT – Please Note!This product requires the use of Navigating The Zones, sold separately.About the Advanced Extension PackIf you’ve been using the game Navigating The Zones, integrate the Advanced Extension Pack and Game Cards to help more sophisticated thinkers (age 10+) further develop their problem solving and self-regulation skills. Add these advanced cards to the Navigating The Zones cooperative game to introduce three additional levels of play—including competitive game play! The...
Ages: 5-18Format: Bundle with GamesPublished: 2021Authors: Leah Kuypers, Elizabeth SautterGet in the zone! Discover why this best-selling, easy-to-use regulation framework has been adopted across classrooms worldwide for mainstream social emotional learning intervention with individuals at developmental ages 5-18+. This all-in-one bundle provides all the books, strategy card decks, and games developed to teach with fidelity Leah Kuypers’ The Zones of Regulation™ curriculum. This bundle includes...
Author: Dominique BaudryAges: 8-18+Format: Bundle with GamesPublished: 2021Learning how to interpret social situations, figure out the social expectations for those situations, and evaluate our feelings is complex and important social emotional learning. Help make that learning fun, safe, and consequence-free for ages 8-18 with our All-in-One Should I? or Shouldn’t I? Games & Expansion Packs Bundle. In this bundle you’ll find the primary school version and the teen version of the popular...
The perfect way to help young people talk about anger-inducing situations and how they would copeBy E A MorrisChoose from more than 40 scenarios to allow young people to open up about situations that are likely to make them angry. Users pick a card and discuss that scenario, either one-to-one or in small groups. The facilitator can turn the conversation onto the user’s beliefs and values that are being challenged by the situation suggested on the card. This can be followed up by role-play and...
By Rob LongRob Long’s Beating The Blues! is designed to help students to better understand the emotions that can overwhelm them in their teenage years, take ownership and look for ways to resolve their own emotional problems. In two books the series aims to help provide students with the necessary tools to deal with their feelings in constructive and empowering ways. Appropriate for use in Health and PE classes.Beating the Blues! – Book A: Personal BluesUnderstanding FeelingsHaving...
By Rob LongRob Long’s Beating The Blues! is designed to help students to better understand the emotions that can overwhelm them in their teenage years, take ownership and look for ways to resolve their own emotional problems. In two books the series aims to help provide students with the necessary tools to deal with their feelings in constructive and empowering ways. Appropriate for use in Health and PE classes.Beating the Blues! – Book A: Personal BluesUnderstanding FeelingsHaving...
and What to Do When They Happen to You By Kim Edmister At long last, simple and clear-cut guidelines for helping children differentiate big deals - situations that require adult intervention and little deals - those things children are capable of handling on their own. Eliminate the need to give constant reminders to “Stop tattling.” Instead, empower children by prompting, “Is it a big deal or a little deal?” Once they have learned the difference and know the strategies, they are better...
*** Please note Download orders will be emailed from the publishers during normal office hours and once they have processed your order. We will be placing the order with the publishers as soon as possible so as to not to cause additional delay***A series of discussion sheets to stimulate conversations to help those wrestling addictions to alcohol, drugs and other addictions.By Pip Wilson and Ian LongThrough a series of creative sheets based upon many of the internationally recognised recovery...
48 cards to encourage discussion about anxietyBy Ian Long and Pip WilsonA wide range of Blob images depicting feelings that have been described by anxiety sufferers. Some cards include visual strategies for managing feelings. The guidance booklet contains twenty activities to use one-to-one or with groups, for example:Choose one Blob and write all the words that you can think about them, all the times you felt like them and what you would like to say to help them.Choose two cards to depict how...
*** Please note Download orders will be emailed from the publishers during normal office hours and once they have processed your order. We will be placing the order with the publishers as soon as possible so as to not to cause additional delay***Images and questions to help children and young people talk through KindnessBy Ian Long and Pip WilsonThis book opens up useful discussions which may lead to changes in children and young people’s attitudes and behaviours. There are learning...
*** Please note Download orders will be emailed from the publishers during normal office hours and once they have processed your order. We will be placing the order with the publishers as soon as possible so as to not to cause additional delay***Use Blobs as an innovative way to discuss relationshipsBy Pip Wilson and Ian LongRelationships are the essence of life. The Blobs here depict feelings and behaviours that are recognised by all and provide an opportunity for open discussion about them....
48 cards to help children and young people discuss the importance of relationshipsBy Pip Wilson & Ian LongRelationships are the essence of life. The Blobs here depict feelings and behaviours that are recognised by all and provide an opportunity for open discussion about them. Areas covered include:Sharing feelingsHow behaviour affects othersSecrets/surprisesFair or unfair?Differences and similaritiesTypes of physical contactFeelings and bodies can be hurtHow to manage...
Eight posters to help children talk about specific emotions and feelingsBy Pip Wilson and Ian LongValue Set of 4 each of:Blob Tree PostersBlob Emotions PostersAge: Primary, Secondary
Ages: 4-11Format: CD Data Disc (MAC and Windows Compatible)Flash Player Lessons with PDF Worksheets and PostersBy: Susan BowmanThese wonderful, supplementary, interactive mini-lessons can be used on any digital white board such as SMART Board™ or Promethean Board™ or on a computer. Kids will love these animated lessons, the great sound effects and narration. Lessons include:True Friends Blue Friends - see which friends help Brad find his way through the mazeTake a Bite out Of Mean Words - help...
Authors: Michelle Garcia Winner, Stephanie Madrigal, the Superflex Creative TeamDefeat Distractibility!You’ve worked through the Superflex curriculum with your students and now you’re ready to dive deeper. This discounted two-book set featuring the Unthinkable Brain Eater and Thinkable Focus Tron explores one of the social learning challenges we see most often in our students — distractibility! The lessons in these two books complement each other and they even share similar settings and...
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