Introduction
Tough Issues, Tough Choices is a collection of 24 workshop sessions to help young people learn how to tackle challenging issues by promoting emotional literacy in schools. It is specifically aimed at those children with behavioural problems.
Benefits
- engage the hard-to-teach and hard-to-reach
- model a problem-solving approach to teenage dilemmas
- enable students to develop emotional resilience
- provide materials to assist SEAL development
- help your students to resist unhelpful peer pressures
- mirror young people’s experiences with teaching and learning resources
- support students in questioning their values and behaviours
- record your students’ opinions before and after working with them, which can then be used in your school SEF.
Summary of contents
Tough Issues, Tough Choices is an exciting and challenging resource that focuses upon the issues, problems and concerns of teenagers in today’s increasingly diverse and complex society. Social, emotional and behavioural issues relevant to these young people are presented in a three part programme which was originally developed and trialled within the context of a Pupil Referral Unit and a Mainstream High School.
- Underage age pregnancy
- Graffiti
- ASBOs
- Date rape
- Homophobia
- Anorexia
- Racism
- Death
- Relationship breakdown
- Peer pressure
- Arson
- Alcohol abuse
- Obesity
- Bullying
- Drug abusive
Chapter breakdown
Introduction
Background and Rationale
Tough Life Issues
Aims of the Programme
Structure of the Programme
Structure of the Sessions
Notes to Facilitators
Checklist
Looking Forwards
Bibliography
Web-based Resources
Part 1 Social Issues
Ragging Up
Baby Blues
Graffiti Courage
Cow Face
Nicked, No Problem
Taking It
Who Am I?
Go Somewhere Else
Part 2 Emotional Issues
Gay Boy
Eat Up
Two Sides
Dumb Idiot
The Girls’ Way
Missing You
Love Rat
Look At That
Part 3 Behavioural Issues
Drunk and Disorderly
Bullying
Happy Slapping
Peer Pressure
Grassing Up
Out Of It
Burn It Up
Shorty
Details
A4, printable from the CD-ROM or to copy from the A4 page. Includes a hardback binder
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