Integrating Life Skills into English Class
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Some tools and methods to integrate the teaching of life skills into language classes.
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- 2. What are Life Skills? Why Teach Life Skills? How to Integrate?
- 3. Examples of Life Skills Menti https://www.menti.com/9k6x6shqi6 4878 1612 nagaRAJU
- 4. Life skills are the abilities for adaptive and positive behaviour that enable individuals to deal effectively with the demands and challenges of everyday life. Skills to make the most of your life Limitless Life Skills nagaRAJU
- 5. Critical Thinking Decision Making Creative Thinking Problem Solving Self Awareness Interpersonal Skills Coping with Stress Empathy Coping with Emotions Effective Communication Life Skills - UNICEF nagaRAJU
- 6. S W O T Self Awareness nagaRAJU Knowing strengths, weaknesses Knowing likes, dislikes Knowing passion and concerns Knowing who you are Essential to grow and to succeed
- 7. o Objective evaluation o Triple filter test o Assess pros and cons Critical Thinking nagaRAJU
- 8. Understanding problems, identifying solutions, choosing the best available of them and then taking action to address them. Decision Making nagaRAJU
- 9. Seeing things in lateral ways Finding novel solutions Generate new ideas nagaRAJU
- 10. Expressing feelings in positive ways Not suppressing emotions (pent up feelings become roadblocks) Coping with negative feelings Coping with Emotions nagaRAJU
- 11. Stress leads to emotional trauma Positive attitude helps Acceptance of reality helps Staying calm in tough situations Skills to counter and prevent Coping with Stress nagaRAJU
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- 13. Never stop learning Adapt to new skills Will to Learn nagaRAJU
- 14. What are Life Skills? Why Teach Life Skills? How to Integrate?
- 15. Become a better human being Enhance academic success Nurture social etiquette Enable self-discovery Foster efficiency Instil confidence Track and achieve SMART goals Why Teach Life Skills nagaRAJU
- 16. Reflection Environment Self Home Family Friends School Teachers Peers Who Teaches Life Skills? nagaRAJU
- 17. What are Life Skills? Why Teach Life Skills? How to Integrate?
- 18. Appropriate materials Comprehensible inputs Effective learning facilitation Reliable assessment Imparting Life Skills nagaRAJU
- 19. UGC Suggested Pedagogy nagaRAJU 20% Face to Face Lectures 80% practice oriented Focus on blended learning Includes flipped classroom approach project based learning demonstration group discussion simulation coaching, seminars and tutorials
- 20. Brainstorming Discussion Games & Activities Collaboration Role Plays Case Studies / Projects Popular Methods nagaRAJU A + S + K
- 21. 1. Brainstorming 2. Discussion 3. Roleplaying 4. Games and activities 5. Pair and group work 6. Projects and case studies Rank your favourites nagaRAJU A + S + K https://www.menti.com/8zeo9na2ce 3457 4622
- 22. Facilitating Self-Awareness nagaRAJU 1. Look at yourself objectively 2. Keep a journal 3. Practise mindfulness 4. Take psychometric tests 5. Ask for constructive feedback
- 23. 01 02 03 04 Field work to involve directly Social work to integrate skills Educational tours for real life learning experiences Questioning mind to build skills Project Method nagaRAJU
- 24. What we do with what we have nagaRAJU
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- 1. Integrate skill development practices in the English classroom 2. Employ student-centric teaching approaches 3. Facilitate activity based teaching 4. Initiate blended teaching practices
- Is life a game or a lesson or an opportunity? What makes you a better human being? What helps you achieve success? What makes you happier?
- Is life a game or a lesson or an opportunity? Tying your shoe laces, swimming, driving a car and using a computer are, for most people, useful life skills. Broadly speaking, the term ‘life skills’ is usually used for any of the skills needed to deal well and effectively with the challenges of life. The definition extends into consumer education, environmental education, peace education or education for development, livelihood and income generation, among others. In short, life skills empower young people to take positive action to protect themselves and promote health and positive social relationships.
- There are many others: 1. Etiquette 2. Goal Setting 3. Interview Skills 4. Teamwork and Collaboration 5. Positive Attitude 6. Leadership Skills 7. Image Management Life skill has been classified into three broad categories: • Thinking skills: Thinking skills are the skill that enhances the logical faculty of the brain using an analytical ability, thinking creatively and critically, and developing problem-solving skills and improving decision-making abilities. • Social skills: Social skills include interpersonal skills, communication skills, leadership skills, management skills, advocacy skills, co-operation and team building skills, etc. • Emotional skills: Emotional skills, involves, knowing and being comfortable with oneself. Thus, self– management, including managing/coping with feelings, emotions, stress and resisting peer and family pressure. ccc despice
- For example, if an individual recognizes that he procrastinates a lot and due to this his efficiencies do not get reflected, he can work on better time management.
- It also helps us to evaluate the influence of decisions taken on our own values and values of people who are near to us. Adolescents are most of the time influenced by media and peers. This skill can assist them to assess the pros and cons of the situation and help them to evaluate their actions.
- Determine alternative and constructive solutions about problems.
- Where is the most fertile ground in the world?
- Where is the most fertile ground in the world? Understanding others’ emotional states and perspectives. It helps in understanding other peoples’ concerns and reactions to a given situation. Thus, empathizing with others helps not only in having a balanced understanding of the behaviour and reactions of an individual but also facilitates a deeper insight into human behaviour. It is an ability to imagine and understand what life is like for another person, even in a situation that you may not be familiar with. It is important for an adolescent to develop positive outlook towards others and feeling of cooperation, which is necessary for preparing the foundation for adulthood.
- Is the English teacher’s responsibility?
- Is the English teacher’s responsibility?
- selecting a learning method that guide teacher to gradually develop communicative competence and simultaneously develop life skills. School curriculum should incorporate strategies that require higher-level thinking skills such as inference, prediction, analysis and critical thinking. With the use of critical thinking strategies, students develop skills such as reasoning, questioning and investigating, observing and describing, comparing and connecting, finding complexity, and exploring viewpoints. Problem solving is an important element of all content areas. Placing more responsibilities on students as they mature is important. These responsibilities include leadership roles in school, student voice, higher-level thinking skills and greater control over personal and academic goal setting.
- Brainstorming: Allowing students to think out of the box. Creatively generate ideas. Evaluating the pros and cons of each idea. Discussions: Practicing problems solving. Practicing listening and communication skills. Activity and Role Plays: Becoming active and participative. Increasing empathy for others and their point of view. Group Work: Maximizing student input. Allowing students interactions. Enhancing team building and team work. Educational Games: Promoting fun and active learning. Using of knowledge, attitudes, and skills. Allowing assumptions and abilities in a positive environment. Case Studies: Giving the chance, to analyze, explore and challenge. Test different solutions. Sharing idea, new learnings. Gives insight and seeing things differently.
- Sharpening our strengths and correcting our weaknesses help us solidify our goals.
- Field work is one of the best teaching techniques. Filed work is an opportunity for learner to involve directly, and investigate the fact in real life situations. Students directly connect themselves with different types of people. They collect data. They conduct interview and have first hand life experience. Students design questions for fulfilling study and ask questions to elder member in family. Teacher helps students to prepare a set of questions. They form different group of students. A group of students meet famous person of the society. They conduct one to one session with them. Experience people share their story of struggle with students. Students learn so many life skills during this active session with good people (from different walks) of local area. Students learn different techniques to manage their emotion and passion to achieve something great in life. Students learn how to overcome from struggle having proper communication with experienced and expert people of different field. Teacher helps students to feel real life learning experience. Teacher organizes tours for their students i.e. visiting different places, hospitals, labs, factory, bank or required places related to topics. Social work is second great opportunity for learners to learn essential life skill. It integrates different life skills i.e. decision making, interpersonal, intrapersonal, creative thinking, critical thinking etc. Students develop effective communication skill during performing several tasks in the field.