Life skills Session
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The document discusses life skills and their importance in education. It defines life skills as abilities that help individuals deal with everyday demands and challenges according to the WHO. The 10 core life skills identified are self-awareness, empathy, critical thinking, etc. It argues that life skills are needed now more than ever given changes in the workplace. Teachers should equip students with these skills both in and outside the classroom through techniques like role playing, discussions, and peer teaching. Fostering life skills can improve self-confidence and relationships.
Life skills Session
- 1. Dr. Dheeraj Mehrotra Academic Evangelist,Author & National Awardee NEXT EDUCATION INDIA PVT. LTD. Hyderabad
- 2. UNDERSTANDING LIFE SKILLS A TEACHER’S PROSPECTIVE THE ABILITIES FOR ADAPTIVE AND POSITIVE BEHAVIOUR THAT ENABLE INDIVIDUALS TO DEAL EFFECTIVELYWITH THE DEMANDS AND CHALLENGS OF EVERYDAY LIFE (WHO)
- 3. THE TEN CORE LIFE SKILLS AS LAID DOWN BY WHO ARE: § SELF AWARENESS § EMPATHY § CRITICALTHINKING § CREATIVETHINKING § DECISION MAKING § PROBLEM SOLVING § EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION § INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIP § COPINGWITH STRESS § COPINGWITH EMOTIONS
- 4. Once students realize that your classroom is a safe place,their minds are free to learn.
- 6. Gracious in defeat!What Usain Bolt told Justin Gatlin after losing final 100m race at London meet.
- 12. INCORPORATE TOOLS OF NLP: Neuro Linguistic Programming: A methodology for modeling Excellence!
- 17. §Social Networking: Facebook, MySpace §Professional Networking: Linkedin §Photo Sharing: Flickr §Video Sharing:YouTube,Vimeo §Document Sharing: Slideshare, Scribd §Social Bookmarks: Delicious §Blog Platforms: Blogspot,Wordpress §Microblogs:Twitter §Virtual World: SecondLife, GoJiyo §Crowdsourced Content: Redditt, Digg
- 18. WHY IS THERE A NEED FOR LIFE SKILLS EDUCATION? §Life skills have been defined by the World Health Organization as “abilities for adaptive and positive behaviour that enable individuals to deal effectively with the demands and challenges of everyday life”.
- 19. WHO NEEDS LIFE SKILLS? §“The work world has changed so that social skills are at a premium. Over 70% of jobs today involve membership of a team… Increased technology in the workplace is associated with interdependence …teams cooperate with teams. In today’s world teamwork skills are employability skills.”
- 20. HOW ARE THEY IMPARTED? §In and beyond the classroom §We need to equip our students with the kind of skills that will enable them to meet the new challenges. These are skills that you, as a successful, effective professional, probably use every day without too much thought.
- 21. PEER EDUCATORS APPROACH §Put your students in the position of decision makers. §Role playing the various positions in class.
- 22. OPENING ROUTINES §Share one word §Share the link of the day §Grab a Goal
- 23. CLOSING ROUTINES §Rate the learning or lesson §Closing Statement or Question §What did you learn? §What surprised you? §What is unclear? §What do you want to know about?
- 24. DIFFERENT METHODS TO ENHANCE LIFE SKILLS IN STUDENTS & TEACHERS Class discussions Brainstorming Role plays, Special Assembly based on Life Skills topics Case studies Story telling Debates etc.
- 25. KEY STEPS IN LIFE SKILLS APPLICATION §Defining and promoting life skills. §Promoting Skills Acquisition and Performance §Fostering skill maintenance/ generalisation
- 26. LIFE SKILLS COMMANDMENTS §I read, I forget, I discuss, I remember,I do, I inculcate.
- 27. ENCOURAGE, EMPOWER, ENRICH THE STUDENTS §100 ways to say GREAT!
- 28. LIFE SKILLS COMMANDMENTS #1 §Life skills are essentially those abilities that help promote overall wellbeing and competence in young people as they face the realities of life.
- 29. LIFE SKILLS COMMANDMENTS #2 §Life skills are the beginning of wisdom which focuses on behaviour change or developmental approach designed to address a balance of three areas- knowledge,attitude and skills.
- 30. LIFE SKILLS COMMANDMENTS #3 §Life skills enable individuals to translate knowledge, attitude and values into actual abilities, what to do and how to do it, given the scope and opportunity to do so.
- 31. LIFE SKILLS COMMANDMENTS #4 §Life skills however are not a panacea of “how to do abilities” as they are not the only factors that affect behavour. There are many factors such as social support, culture and environment that affect motivation and ability to behave in positive ways.
- 32. LIFE SKILLS COMMANDMENTS #5 §Effective acquisition and application of Life Skills can influence the way one feels about others, ourselves and will equally influence the way we are perceived by others. It contributes to perception of self confidence and self esteem.
- 33. LIFE SKILLS COMMANDMENTS #6 §Life skills for psychosocial competence needs to be distinguished from other important skills that young people will acquire as they grow up such as reading, numbers, technical and livelihood skills.
- 34. LIFE SKILLS COMMANDMENTS #7 §Life skills education involves a dynamic teaching process. The methods used to facilitate this active involvement includes working in small groups and pairs, brainstorming, role plays, games and debates.
- 35. LIFE SKILLS COMMANDMENTS #8 §We all use Life Skills in different situations such as: a) To negotiate effectively at home, school or work place, we need to have thinking skills as well as social skills §b) When faced with difficult situations we tend to think critically, to analyze all the pros and cons of the situation to think out of box to find a solution to seemingly difficult problems.
- 36. LIFE SKILLS COMMANDMENTS #9 §Many life skills are required to manage a particular situation effectively. In a way, various Life Skills work best in conjunction. In fact, the appropriate combination of Life Skills in a given moment is an art.
- 37. LIFE SKILLS COMMANDMENTS #10 §Children learn their Life Skills from parents, teachers and significant others who act as their role model. They gradually learn to use a particular skill effectively in diverse situation to cope with challenges of life.
- 42. H A P P I N E S S
- 45. SOME IMPORTANT TOPICS: • LIFE SKILLS : IMPORTANCE WITHIN OUR CLASSROOMS • TEACHING LIFE SKILLS • TYPES OF LIFE SKILLS • PROBLEM PARENTS
- 47. THANKS §Email : dheerajm@nexteducation.in §Website: www.dheerajmehrotra.com §LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drdheerajmehrotra §Twitter: https://twitter.com/dheerajmehrotra §FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/dheeraj.mehrotra §https://www.facebook.com/RockstarTeachers