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Lisa J. Lucas – ASCD, 2025
Classroom teaching has many challenges, and these are compounded when you're also preparing students to navigate the world in a way that is healthy and forward-looking. But what if you could take a few minutes every day to not only help your students develop social-emotional skills, but also take stock, recenter, and reset yourself? This engaging…
Descriptors: Students, Teachers, Creative Activities, Creative Thinking
Hodges, Daniel L. – 1984
This guide provides a detailed summary of the information, techniques, and examples offered in an audiotape developed to help students teach themselves physical skills. After section I introduces the topic and the objectives of the tape, section II provides concrete examples of adults learning motor skills. Section III presents and discusses nine…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Learning Strategies, Psychomotor Objectives, Psychomotor Skills
Hodges, Daniel L. – 1984
This guide provides an outline of the information and techniques covered on an audiotape developed to help students lower their test anxiety. First, a rationale for the development of the test anxiety materials is provided and the use of these materials at Lane Community College is discussed. Next, a detailed outline of the material is provided,…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Learning Strategies, Relaxation Training, Self Help Programs
Hodges, Daniel L. – 1984
This guide provides a summary of the information and suggestions covered on an audiotape designed to help students prepare for and take tests. First, introductory material presents a rationale for the development of the testing skills materials and a discussion of their use at Lane Community College. Next, the objectives of the tape are specified…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Learning Strategies, Memory, Self Help Programs
Mello, Robin – 1992
This workbook helps adolescents learn how to take charge of their own lives and happiness. The underlying idea is to teach them how to live responsibly. By learning to live responsibly, adolescents have the best chance of avoiding drugs, alcohol, and other addictive behaviors such as overeating and overspending. The workbook explains the steps to…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Autobiographies, Drug Addiction, Drug Education
Clark, Betty – 1998
This book is designed to help young adolescents cope with the reality of their parents divorcing. It speaks directly to young adolescents and attempts to answer questions that concern their worst fears and anxieties about what a divorce will mean for them. It provides strategies to help them resolve or handle the confusion, hurt, and conflict they…
Descriptors: Childhood Attitudes, Childhood Needs, Coping, Divorce
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Inst. (DHHS/NIH), Bethesda, MD. Div. of Lung Diseases. – 1986
The Living with Asthma Program is designed to teach asthma self-management skills to children (ages 8-12) with asthma and to give their parents the knowledge and behavior modification skills to help their children take over responsibility for managing the condition. Both groups receive training in problem solving and in ways to improve family…
Descriptors: Asthma, Behavior Modification, Drug Therapy, Elementary Education
Condon, Ellen; Brown, Kim – Rural Institute, 2007
The Rural Institute: Center for Excellence in Disability Education, Research, and Service, is one of sixty-four Centers for Excellence in Disability Education across the nation. It is an inter-disciplinary organization that promotes full participation in rural life for individuals with disabilities. The Rural Institute accomplishes this goal by…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Employment, Rural Areas, Career Planning
Bauer, James J. – 1999
This book is specifically written for dyslexic or learning disabled individuals seeking insight into their disorder and its effects on their lives. The material is divided into 52 chapters, which are written expressly so that they will not be intimidating to learning disabled individuals. The chapters are drawn from issues that the author is asked…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adult Education, Adults, Anxiety
Bosler, Shirley – 1989
This guide demonstrates a holistic approach to goal attainment in adult education, welfare, and work force program. Holistic goal attainment treats the roots of illiteracy, measuring impact on learning and job readiness that increases teachable/reachable moments for instructors and builds self-esteem within the learner. The teacher's guide…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Check Lists, Daily Living Skills
Ouvry, Judith A. – 1997
This book is an easy-to-read inspirational book that was written to show adult literacy students how to achieve fulfillment by taking charge of their lives. The eight short chapters of the book are printed only on the right-hand page, with inspirational quotations and space for the reader's personal thoughts on the left-hand page. Chapter titles…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Aspiration, Empowerment
PASSAGE, 1991
This document consists of 10 issues of a workplace and job-skills information newsletter specifically designed for adult education program practitioners and their students. A report preceding the newsletters notes that the 1990-91 newsletters were issued to 2,200 program administrators, directors, counselors, volunteers, and their students.…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Career Counseling