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Unit 1: Skills For Learning
Lesson 1: Being Respectful Learners
Lesson Concepts:
Focusing your attention and listening help you be a better learner.
Focusing your attention and listening show respect
Lesson 2: Using Self-Talk
Lesson Concepts:
Self-talk means talking to yourself in a quiet voice or in your head.
Self-talk can help you focus, stay on task, and handle distractions.
Lesson 3: Being Assertive
Lesson Concepts:
Being assertive means asking for what you want or need in a calm and firm voice.
Being assertive is a respectful way to get what you want or need.
Lesson 4: Planning To Learn
Lesson Concepts:
Making a plan can help you be a better learner.
A plan is good if the order makes sense, it’s simple, and you can do it.
Unit 2: Empathy
Lesson 5: Identifying Others' Feelings
Lesson Concepts:
Looking for clues on a person’s face or body and in the situation helps you notice and understand how that person is feeling.
People can have different feelings about the same situation.
All feelings are natural.
Lesson 6: Understanding Perspectives
Lesson Concepts:
People can have different feelings about the same situation, and their feelings can change.
Empathy is feeling or understanding what someone else is feeling.
Thinking about others’ perspectives helps you have empathy for them.
Lesson 7: Conflicting Feelings
Lesson Concepts:
You can have conflicting feelings about a situation.
Having empathy helps you notice when others’ feelings are the same as or different from yours.
Lesson 8: Accepting Differences
Lesson Concepts:
Having empathy helps you understand and accept how others are the same as or different from you.
Accepting and appreciating others’ differences is respectful..
Lesson 9: Showing Compassion
Lesson Concepts:
Focusing attention on and listening to others can help you have empathy and show compassion.
You can say kind words or do helpful things to show your compassion.
Lesson 10: Making Friends
Lesson Concepts:
Focusing attention and listening to others help you make conversation.
Making conversation helps you make friends and get along better with others.
Unit 3: Emotion Management
Lesson 11: Managing Test Anxiety
Lesson Concepts:
Using a stop signal and naming your feeling are the first two Calming-Down Steps.
Lesson 12: Handling Accusations
Lesson Concepts:
You can use belly breathing to calm down.
Calming down helps you handle accusations calmly and thoughtfully.
It’s important to take responsibility when you’ve made a mistake.
Unit 4: Problem Solving
Lesson 13: Solving Problems, Part 1
Lesson Concepts:
Calming down helps you think so you can solve problems.
Following steps can help you solve problems.
Saying the problem without blame is respectful.
Lesson 14: Solving Problems, Part 2
Lesson Concepts:
Following steps can help you solve problems.
Solutions to problems must be safe and respectful.
Solutions can have positive or negative consequences.
Lesson 15: Solving Peer-Exclusion Problems
Lesson Concepts:
Following steps can help you solve problems.
Being assertive is a safe and respectful solution to problems like being excluded.
Excluding others is not nice or respectful.
Lesson 16: Dealing With Negative Peer Pressure
Lesson Concepts:
Calming down helps you think so you can solve problems.
Following steps can help you solve problems.
Being assertive can help you resist negative peer pressure.