The series is composed of four sequences, each containing 10 lesson plans that require minimal preparation. Each lesson includes engaging interventions that ease students into making changes they might otherwise resist. Lessons include cartoons, contests, games, experiments, stories, role-plays, and other innovative devices.

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Student Effectiveness Training

The Personal Power series is the nation s only comprehensive system for rapidly and effectively teaching problem youth to succeed in school. This series, developed and honed with troubled youth and children, was designed to turn around aggressive, withdrawn, unmotivated, absent, learning disabled, and uncontrollable youth in Grades 4 through 12. The series was developed to give teachers, counselors, psychologists, foster parents, and youth professionals the tools needed to teach youth how to succeed in school emotionally and socially.

The series is composed of four sequences, each containing 10 lesson plans that require minimal preparation. Each lesson includes engaging interventions that ease students into making changes they might otherwise resist. Lessons include cartoons, contests, games, experiments, stories, role-plays, and other innovative devices.

The series includes volumes focusing on three areas of success--in school, with the self, and with others. The lessons in Developing Appropriate Teacher Interaction Skills help students to gain the motivations, attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors needed successfully interact with instructors, join class discussions, recognize the value of rules, perform the work students must do, and focus on learning. The lessons in Becoming an Effective Student help unmotivated youth to discover the importance of school. Skills covered include homework management and completion, test study skills, frustration management, and organization skills. The Gaining Self Control volume provides solutions that aid even very impulsive, noncompliant, angry, and emotionally troubled youth as they work to gain and consistently use impulse control, judgment, anger control, and basic self-management skills. Also included are self-esteem building and goal setting strategies that really work. The lessons included in the Peer Interaction Skills volume help youth to learn and use the social skills they need. The lessons show students how to initiate conversations, end fights, and avoid negative leaders. Youngsters also learn how to cope with cliques, interact with opposite-gender peers, have an acceptable appearance, and interact with peers of diverse cultural backgrounds.

COMPLETE PERSONAL POWER COMBINATOIN KIT INCLUDES: Gaining Self Control; Peer Interaction Skills; Developing Appropriate Teacher Interaction Skills; Becoming an Effective Student

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