LIFE SKILLS TRAINING

Life Skills Training

Secondary School "Govone"

Activity: Life Skills Training

Class: 1A-2A (students’ age: 11-13)

Term: December to April (20 lessons each class)

Teachers involved: Italian, English, P.E.

The activity, LifeSkills Training, is aimed to prevent the young from the use and the abuse of substances such as alcohol, drugs and tobacco. It also implies helping the students improve relationship and prevent them from  misbehavior like violent attitudes and bullying, developing emotional skills.

In order to achieve that, some units of the activities have dealt with emotional skills, for instance, handling anger and managing anxiety.

The target of Life Skills is giving the pupils involved in the poject the ability to face the matters they may encounter during their growing up. Particularly the Life Slkills training project is going to reinforce their own self-esteem helping them to make friends, to manage with rage and conflicts and to be able to assert

During the task, discussions and behavioral simulations have been allowed besides the teacher’s intervention, when necessary, and individual homework.

Boys and girls have had the opportunity to know their own emotional reactions in different situations (with their pairs, their families, schoolmates and teachers) and they have also had the chance to manage with them in the best way under  the supervision of the adults and learning to be respectful of objects and people.