Download or read book Soft Skills for Kids written by Nancy Armstrong Melser and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-05-11 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children today are going through a lot—they are busy with school, involved in extracurricular activities, and trying to navigate the world of COVID and other concerns. Teachers and parents are busy too—with work, school, and parenting activities. How will they have the time to teach valuable skills such as manners and respect to children? These are “soft skills”; the skills necessary to work with others and be a respected and valuable citizen in the workplace of tomorrow. Soft Skills for Kids: In Schools, at Home, and Online, 2nd Edition, focuses on ways that teachers and parents can work together to teach soft skills to the children in their lives. This book is not a curriculum program or set of lessons to help children, but rather a series of “teachable moments” in which adults teach strategies to children as they happen. Finally, as the education of children has changed recently due to the pandemic with an increased number of children learning online, this book will be a great resource for how adults can work together to help children learn soft skills—in schools, at home, and online.
Download or read book The Toddler Brain written by Laura A. Jana and published by Da Capo Lifelong Books. This book was released on 2017-02-14 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if, despite the best of intentions, we are raising our children to succeed in a world that no longer exists? The Toddler Brain helps parents recognize the connection that exists between their own parenting behaviors and their child's ability to acquire valuable twenty-first-century skills. Dr. Laura A. Jana draws on studies and stories from pediatrics, neuroscience, social science, and childcare, as well as the world of business and innovation to show parents how to equip their children with seven key skills. Dr. Jana explores the importance of play and curiosity, imagination and empathy, and strategically strengthening children's neural connections in their first five years.
Download or read book Becoming Brilliant written by Roberta Michnick Golinkoff and published by American Psychological Association. This book was released on 2016-05-16 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In just a few years, today’s children and teens will forge careers that look nothing like those that were available to their parents or grandparents. While the U.S. economy becomes ever more information-driven, our system of education seems stuck on the idea that “content is king,” neglecting other skills that 21st century citizens sorely need. Becoming Brilliant offers solutions that parents can implement right now. Backed by the latest scientific evidence and illustrated with examples of what’s being done right in schools today, this book introduces the 6Cs—collaboration, communication, content, critical thinking, creative innovation, and confidence—along with ways parents can nurture their children’s development in each area.
Download or read book Bridging the Soft Skills Gap written by Bruce Tulgan and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Solve the number one problem with today's young workforce—the soft skills gap The number one challenge with today's young talent is a problem hiding in plain sight: the ever-widening soft skills gap. Today's new, young workforce has so much to offer—new technical skills, new ideas, new perspective, new energy. Yet too many of them are held back because of their weak soft skills. Soft skills may be harder to define and measure than hard skills, but they are just as critical. People get hired because of their hard skills but get fired because of their soft skills. Setting a good example or simply telling young workers they need to improve isn't enough, nor is scolding them or pointing out their failings in an annual review. However you can teach the missing basics to today's young talent. Based on more than twenty years of research, Bruce Tulgan, renowned expert on the millennial workforce, offers concrete solutions to help managers teach the missing basics of professionalism, critical thinking, and followership—complete with ninety-two step-by-step lesson plans designed to be highly flexible and easy to use. Tulgan's research and proven approach has show that the key to teaching young people the missing soft skills lies in breaking down critical soft skills into their component parts, concentrating on one small component at a time, with the help of a teaching-style manager. Almost all of the exercises can be done in less than an hour within a team meeting or an extended one-on-one. The exercises are easily modified and customized and can be used as take-home exercises for any individual or group, to guide one-on-one discussions with direct-reports and in the classroom as written exercises or group discussions. Managers—and their young employees—will find themselves returning to their favorite exercises over and over again. One exercise at a time, managers will build up the most important soft skills of their new, young talent. These critical soft skills can make the difference between mediocre and good, between good and great, between great and one of a kind.
Download or read book Teaching Kids to Thrive written by Debbie Silver and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2017-04-07 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There’s more to student success than standards and test scores… Integrating Social and Emotional Learning into a curriculum has been shown to increase personal and school-wide growth. With lifelong success the goal over simply meeting academic thresholds, Teaching Kids to Thrive presents strategies, activities, and stories in an approachable way to develop responsible, self-motivated learners. Uniting social, academic, and self-skills this instrumental resource offers benefits to students such as: Using mindfulness strategies to help students tap their inner strengths Learning to self-regulate and control other executive brain functions Developing growth mindsets along with perseverance and resilience Cultivating a sense of responsibility, honesty, and integrity Encouraging a capacity for empathy and gratitude
Download or read book SUCCESS SKILLS written by Cary J. Green and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-23 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Successful students and successful employees have something in common: a well-developed skill set that goes beyond book smarts. The skills needed for success in the classroom and on the job can be honed with deliberate effort and the right resources. Academic success skills—note-taking, reading for understanding, preparing for and taking exams, using resources such as advisors and academic coaches, participating in experiential education opportunities—enable students to perform at the level of their academic ability. Soft skills—communication, critical thinking, problem-solving, time management, ability to work on a team, strong work ethic, and professionalism—underpin academic and career success. Leadership—influencing people to achieve common goals—is the key to personal and shared success. Success Skills for High School, College, and Career provides step-by-step guidelines and hands-on exercises to enable students to enhance their academic performance and prepare for future career success. This book helps students construct realistic expectations for achieving success, develop self-awareness, build a future-oriented attitude, and improve their academic success skills, leadership skills, and soft skills. If you want to build skills essential for academic success and career readiness, this book is for you.
Download or read book Soft Skills Training written by Frederick H. Wentz and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2012-05-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I was hired by a major university to teach recently released offenders how to become employed. I walked into my first class intending to follow the lead of all the other job training programs in the city, which was teaching the students to properly fill out applications, write resumes, facilitate mock interviews, and locate employment opportunities. After the first couple of classes, most of the students were either not paying attention or sleeping. I quickly realized my presentation needed to be interesting, challenging, beneficial, and actually guide the participants on how to remain employed. However, I was unable to find any published material for teaching new hires the soft skills necessary to keep a job. This workbook is a compilation of the soft skills class material I have developed over an eighteen year period. I have used this material with great success and have taught soft skills in schools, inner-city church programs, nonprofits, and government funded job training programs. It is a unique collection of essays, exercises, quotes, and maxims that will give students a realistic perspective on work-related expectations and the expectations of the supervisors who hire them. It will help students develop their problem solving skills, guide them in making appropriate decisions, and create a desire to plan out goals and achieve them. The workbook style is challenging and playful, serious and engaging and a stepping stone to developing the cognitive skills necessary to quash unproductive thinking and self-defeating emotional behaviors.
Download or read book What Work Requires of Schools written by Fritz Leiber and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1991 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concludes that all American high school students must develop a new set of competencies and foundation skills; that qualities of high performance that characterize the most competitive companies must become the standard for the majority of all companies; and American schools must be transformed into high-performance organizations in their own right. Describes the skills and personal qualities that workers need in order to be competent, and the productive use of resources, interpersonal skills, information, systems and technology by effective workers. Illustrated.
Download or read book Mind in the Making written by Ellen Galinsky and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-04-02 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Ellen Galinsky—already the go-to person on interaction between families and the workplace—draws on fresh research to explain what we ought to be teaching our children. This is must-reading for everyone who cares about America’s fate in the 21st century.” — Judy Woodruff, Senior Correspondent for The PBS NewsHour Families and Work Institute President Ellen Galinsky (Ask the Children, The Six Stages of Parenthood) presents a book of groundbreaking advice based on the latest research on child development.
Download or read book How to Keep Your Teenager Out of Trouble and What to Do If You Can t written by Neil I. Bernstein and published by Workman Publishing. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a guide to successful cohabitation with teenagers covering such topics as how teenagers get into trouble, setting limits, building self-esteem, peer pressure, and antisocial behavior.
Download or read book Grown and Flown written by Lisa Heffernan and published by Flatiron Books. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PARENTING NEVER ENDS. From the founders of the #1 site for parents of teens and young adults comes an essential guide for building strong relationships with your teens and preparing them to successfully launch into adulthood The high school and college years: an extended roller coaster of academics, friends, first loves, first break-ups, driver’s ed, jobs, and everything in between. Kids are constantly changing and how we parent them must change, too. But how do we stay close as a family as our lives move apart? Enter the co-founders of Grown and Flown, Lisa Heffernan and Mary Dell Harrington. In the midst of guiding their own kids through this transition, they launched what has become the largest website and online community for parents of fifteen to twenty-five year olds. Now they’ve compiled new takeaways and fresh insights from all that they’ve learned into this handy, must-have guide. Grown and Flown is a one-stop resource for parenting teenagers, leading up to—and through—high school and those first years of independence. It covers everything from the monumental (how to let your kids go) to the mundane (how to shop for a dorm room). Organized by topic—such as academics, anxiety and mental health, college life—it features a combination of stories, advice from professionals, and practical sidebars. Consider this your parenting lifeline: an easy-to-use manual that offers support and perspective. Grown and Flown is required reading for anyone looking to raise an adult with whom you have an enduring, profound connection.
Download or read book Technologically Impaired Teens And the Soft Skills We Need to Teach Them to Succeed written by Leeann Browett and published by . This book was released on 2015-04-24 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is incessant technological use harming our children? Yes! The book Technologically Impaired Teens and the Soft Skills We Need to Teach Them to Succeed explores the negative effects teenage technological overuse has on student social interactions, communication skills, and concentration levels. In essence, technological overuse impedes the development of children's "soft skills," the essential social and emotional skills needed to navigate educational, professional, and personal lives successfully. Author LeeAnn Browett offers a method to counteract the negative effects of teenage technological overuse. The book serves as a teaching resource for elementary and secondary educators, particularly those teaching inquiry and social studies. Through increased collaborative group interactions, activities, and assessments, educators can teach students the essential soft skills needed to succeed in school, the workplace, and in life. The book identifies essential soft skills and provides a method for educators to teach and assess these skills. Elementary and secondary level collaborative group rubrics are included to assist teachers and students in identifying and assessing essential soft skills. Over 40 pages of ready-to-use, reproducible student resources, activities, and assessments are included to support student soft skill development. The sample student resources, activities, and assessments are aligned with Common Core State Standards and College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Framework Standards from the National Council for the Social Studies (2014). The book Technologically Impaired Teens and the Soft Skills We Need to Teach Them to Succeed is broken down into the following sections: 1. An overview of how technological overuse impedes children's skill development; 2. A summary of how impeded skill development manifests in the workplace and negatively impacts the ability to work collaboratively later in life; 3. An identification of the essential soft skills children and adults need; 4. An explanation of the Collaborative Group Rubric assessment tool; 5. Sample Collaborative Group Rubric teacher resources and student activities; 6. Sample grades six through twelve collaborative group activities and assessments to encourage soft skill development; and 7. An adapted Collaborative Group Rubric: Grades K-5 and sample elementary level collaborative group activities to encourage soft skill development and counter the detrimental effects of technological overuse in our younger students. While Technologically Impaired Teens and the Soft Skills We Need to Teach Them to Succeed is intended to be a resource for elementary and secondary educators, it is a useful parent resource as well. Parents and educators alike need to help children moderate their use of technology. Clear technological use boundaries must be set and modeled by parents and educators. Technologically Impaired Teens and the Soft Skills We Need to Teach Them to Succeed is not an anti-technology book. Browett acknowledges the benefits of technology in education and in life. Yet, Browett advocates for technological moderation and the need for educators and parents to counter the detrimental effects of technological overuse.
Download or read book Saying What You Mean written by Wilt and published by W Publishing Group. This book was released on 1980-10 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deals with communication skills.
Download or read book SOAR Study Skills written by Susan Woodcock Kruger and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "SOAR study skills is a comprehensive program that empowers students to manage their time, schoolwork, and extra-curricular activities more efficiently."--Back cover.
Download or read book Teaching Soft Skills in a Hard World written by Nancy Armstrong Melser and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-12-14 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will introduce fourteen of the most important soft skills in the field of education. It will explain how each skill is used in teaching as well as ideas for how to model and explain them in college classrooms, field experiences, and student teaching. The chapters also contain ideas for administrators and mentor teachers who are working with beginning teachers. Hopefully, by learning the soft skills of teaching, pre-service education students and beginning teachers will become successful instructors and models of good citizenship in future classrooms.
Download or read book Future ready Kids written by Lev Mikulitski and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2023-10-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In today's rapidly evolving landscape, the significance of soft skills cannot be overstated. Lev Mikulitski, the innovative mind behind the esteemed digital product platform, Mr.Who, dedicated to enhancing children's soft skills, introduces "FUTURE-READY KIDS" - a comprehensive and practical guide for parents and educators. Chapter 1: The Soft Skills Revolution: Preparing Your Child for a Future Unseen This chapter delves into the critical role of soft skills in contemporary society. It underscores the necessity of equipping the next generation with these competencies to navigate an unpredictable future successfully. Chapter 2: The Parent as Mentor: Fostering Emotional Intelligence and Resilience Highlighting the instrumental role of parents and guardians, this section elucidates strategies and approaches to cultivate emotional intelligence and resilience in children, essential traits for personal and professional success. Chapter 3: Practical Applications: Integrating Soft Skills into Everyday Life Moving beyond theoretical discussions, this chapter provides a detailed framework comprising 78 structured activities. These are tailored to nurture 25 pivotal soft skills, ensuring their effective integration into a child's daily life and experiences. Bonus Chapter: How Perseverance and Discipline Shape Leaders and Champions A deep dive into the foundational qualities that mold leaders and champions, this bonus content emphasizes the synergy of discipline, perseverance, and intrinsic motivation. Designed for parents, educators, and all stakeholders in a child's development, "FUTURE-READY KIDS" serves as an invaluable resource. It not only offers insights into the importance of soft skills but also provides actionable steps for their cultivation. Furthermore, educational institutions can benefit from this guide by incorporating its rich content into their curricula, thereby adding a focused layer dedicated to soft skill enhancement. With "FUTURE-READY KIDS," Lev Mikulitski presents a well-researched and methodical approach to preparing children for the challenges and opportunities of the future, emphasizing holistic development and adaptability.
Download or read book Nurturing Soft Skills written by Peace E. Ani and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nurturing Soft Skills introduces the COACH framework to help parents nurture Confident, Outgoing, Articulate, Creative and Happier children, who feel empowered to try new things and believe they can always bounce back if success is not immediate.
