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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
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Hughes, Elizabeth M.; Yakubova, Gulnoza – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2016
Video-based intervention (VBI) has strong evidence supporting efficiency in teaching social, communication, functional, behavior, play, and self-help skills and emerging evidence for teaching academic skills to students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). VBI allows opportunities to electronically provide personalized, consistent, and prerecorded…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Teaching Methods, Social Development, Communication Skills
Wright, Trevor – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2012
Now in its second edition, Trevor Wright's hugely popular "How to be a Brilliant English Teacher" is packed with practical advice drawn from his extensive and successful experience as an English teacher, examiner and teacher trainer. This accessible and readable guide offers sound theoretical principles with exciting practical suggestions for the…
Descriptors: Poetry, Self Help Programs, Teacher Educators, English Teachers
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Preskill, Stephen – Social Science Record, 1991
Discusses Tennessee's Highlander Folk School. Reports that the school helped organize labor unions and played a role in the civil rights movement of the 1950s. Explains that Highlander sought to bring about southern integration. Argues that successful civic education draws out the experiences and interests of participants and nurtures respect and…
Descriptors: Activism, Adult Education, Citizenship Education, Civil Rights
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
Fellenz, Robert A.; Conti, Gary J. – Adult Literacy and Basic Education, 1985
This worksheet is intended to assist adult basic education teachers in organizing personal learning projects. Based on the learning approach advocated by Malcolm Knowles and a teacher training model developed through Project ACT, the worksheet includes information on the attributes of good teachers and development of a contract for self-directed…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Educators, Independent Study, Performance Contracts
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
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Walden, Phyllis A. – Feminist Teacher, 1988
Describes structured journal writing as a pedagogical tool to help learners become effective lifelong learners. Suggests using the journal writing to promote collaboration which makes effective use of the consciousness-raising and self-help group activities that have been used extensively in the Women's Movement. (KO)
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Higher Education, Journal Writing, Learning Strategies
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
O'Keefe, Edward J. – 1985
This paper describes an innovative program for teaching self-management to children in elementary and secondary schools. The background of techniques for teaching self-management is briefly reviewed, the application of self-management techniques is noted, deficits in self-management programs are considered, and Lazarus's multimodal model of…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Cognitive Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Holistic Approach
Swanson, Elizabeth F.; Halley, Mari Kirsch – Momentum, 1986
Describes the use of a structured, problem-solving dialog among teachers and between teacher and student to review successes in solving the instructional problems of a particular child and to develop an effective education plan which fosters student responsibility for learning and behavior. Uses a case study to illustrate the "What Works" process.…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Elementary Education, Interpersonal Communication, Learning Problems
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Rowland, Michael L. – Adult Learning, 2006
Many adults search for spiritual guidance and direction and persist in seeking answers to life in today's fast-paced world. With burgeoning economic challenges, political corruption, war in Iraq, poverty, health care concerns, environmental concerns, rising fuel costs, violence, racism, and oppression, many adults seek solace and greater…
Descriptors: Literary Genres, Self Concept, Improvement, Christianity
Furniss, W. Todd – 1984
Recommendations for faculty members who are secure in their positions are offered to promote career alternatives beyond those prescribed by their institution. The recommendations cover the implementation and operation of self-help organizations. A survey of faculty members found that faculty members were almost completely dependent on their…
Descriptors: Career Development, College Faculty, Employment Opportunities, Entrepreneurship
Lovitt, Thomas C.; Ballew, Constance – 1988
This collection of self-management tactics is intended for teachers to use in helping secondary school students acquire and improve their self-management skills. The tactics are subdivided into sections devoted to self-recording, self-evaluating, self-selecting, using combinations of individual self-management tactics, and training. The following…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Employment Potential, Goal Orientation, Independent Study
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