Skills for Action
Skills for Action (SFC) students learn to communicate
effectively, analyze and solve problems, set and achieve
goals, work successfully as part of a team, and resolve
conflict peacefully. Students also develop the means
to resist negative peer pressure, make healthy choices,
and understand and appreciate diversity in the classroom,
school, and broader community. Re-designed in 2009,
curriculum changes include updated research, resources
and rationale. The SFC kit has new photos and graphics,
and is organized into four books - Teacher Resource
Guide, Curriculum Manual, Advisory Team Handbook, and
Skills Bank. The Skills Bank opens with a chapter describing
how it can be used as a stand-alone social and emotional
learning and life skills program. A one-day workshop
- Social, Emotional and Workplace Skills for Success
in School and Life - supports stand-alone Skills
Bank implementation.
Lions Quest Exploring the Issues: Teens-Alcohol and Other
Drugs is a 15-session mini- curriculum designed to help
students gain the knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors necessary
to be healthy and drug-free individuals. Students research
the issues and carry out service projects in their schools
and communities, sharing with others what they have learned.
To best serve a broad range of school settings, SFC
may be implemented as a one semester course, a one year
course, or a multi-year course that is repeated as a
service-learning educational methodology for subsequent
classes incorporating service-learning into their content
areas. It can be integrated into academic or other subject
areas such as language arts, health and personal development,
social studies, career preparation and family and consumer
sciences. As a separate course, the one semester to
one year option entails daily implementation with 33
sessions (equal to 70 class periods), appropriate skills
from the Skills Bank, and activities from the Making
a Difference student magazine. Visit Program
Resources to view a variety of curriculum maps.
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Sample Lessons
Grade 9-12 Products
SFC Skills Bank
A highly flexible component of the program, the Skills Bank
contains four broad categories of essential skills for
life: Cultural Awareness, Interpersonal Communication,
Personal Management and Responsibility, and Study and
Writing Skills. Each category is comprised of five to
nine skills for a total of 26 skill sets. Skill lessons
are divided into an introductory rationale, guidelines,
and multiple application options:
- Teach options which introduce students to the new skills
- Reinforce options deepen the students understanding of
the skills
- Enrich options help students integrate the skills into
their lives
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