Classroom Guidance Lessons
Classroom Guidance Lessons
Through classroom guidance lessons, students can learn how to develop positive peer relationships, effective social skills, and healthy decision making strategies. Guidance classes begin the week of September 1st. Each class has a guidance lesson every other week for 30 minutes. The lessons will coincide with schoolwide and district expectations. Guidance lessons include things like role playing, reading and discussing a story, writing/drawing about certain experiences, group games, as well as other activities that allow the children to practice skills in a fun and positive way. Some of the guidance topics that will be covered this year are:
Through classroom guidance lessons, students can learn how to develop positive peer relationships, effective social skills, and healthy decision making strategies. Guidance classes begin the week of September 1st. Each class has a guidance lesson every other week for 30 minutes. The lessons will coincide with schoolwide and district expectations. Guidance lessons include things like role playing, reading and discussing a story, writing/drawing about certain experiences, group games, as well as other activities that allow the children to practice skills in a fun and positive way. Some of the guidance topics that will be covered this year are:
- Meet Your School Counselor
- Age appropriate College and Career Readiness Activities
- Goal Setting
- Bullying
- Red Ribbon Week--Celebrating Being Drug Free and Making Good Choices
- Making and Keeping Friends
- Working to value uniqueness/differences in ourselves and others
- Conflict Resolution
- Communication and Listening Skills
- Respect
- Responsibility
- Empathy