Tackling the Tough Skills: A Curriculum Building Skills for Work and Life
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Rosilee Trotta
Urban Youth and Family Specialist
Committed to helping hard-to-reach adults or teens prepare for the workplace? Tackling the Tough Skills™: A Curriculum Building Skills for Work and Life offers a fresh, innovative approach for educators, welfare-to-work program leaders and social service professionals seeking to positively impact the lives of hard-to-reach or at-risk audiences.
Published by MU Extension, the new 218-page life-skills curriculum is highly interactive and fun for participants. Complete with dozens of original, humorous illustrations that enhance content, the curriculum offers an easy-to-read format that is both convenient for educators and effective for participants.
Although designed to help individuals who are transitioning from welfare to work, the curriculum is easily adaptable to a wide range of audiences, including adolescents, ex-offenders, school-to-work participants, adults and youth at risk, and immigrants.
Flexibility is a key feature. Educators may use the curriculum in its entirety, or choose sections or exercises to supplement other training materials.
Dynamic group learning experiences — including original role plays, discussions, overheads, games and activity exercises — both motivate and challenge participants to get involved. Frequent, well-paced activities provide a blend of humor and serious content that facilitates learning, yet encourages personal reflection and models respect for oneself and others.
The curriculum features a unique blend of honesty, homespun humor, and hard-hitting reality to effectively impact participants.
The curriculum is packaged in an easy-to-use binder, complete with 76 illustrated pages that may be copied by educators to use as overheads and handouts.
Tackling the Tough Skills™ is a must-have resource for educators and a wide variety of leaders and trainers, including welfare-to-work program leaders, Adult Basic Education (ABE) and GED teachers, social service professionals, pregnant and parenting teen program leaders, youth workers, religious leaders, counselors, professionals working with ex-offenders, and all others seeking to positively impact the lives of hard-to-reach adults and teens.
For more information about the curriculum
ISBN
- 0-933842-31-7
- 0933842317
- 978-0-933842-31-1
- 9780933842311
Keywords
- Attitude
- Responsibility
- Communication
- Decision making/Problem solving
- Preparing for the workplace.
Pages
CB13, new June 2000