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Alshuraymi, Ali N.; Wright, Paul M. – Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, 2022
Culturally responsive teaching is an important approach that can guide all educators in responding to their students' various cultures, needs, interests, religions, languages, abilities, and learning preferences. Doing so helps to create an inclusive environment for all students that views diversity as a strength. PE teachers, like teachers in any…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Islam, Religious Factors, Cultural Awareness
Burrow-Sanchez, Jason – Ancora Publishing, 2013
ADAPT (Advancing Decision Making and Problem Solving for Teens) is a small-group intervention for middle and high school students who are at risk for substance use, aggression, truancy, poor school performance, and depressive moods. The ADAPT program's 12 sessions teach fundamental skills such as: (1) Effective problem solving; (2) Decision…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Problem Solving, Adolescents, Middle School Students
Curwin, Richard L. – 1990
The "Contemporary Health Series" covers critical health and family life topics in a sequence of modules with two curricular divisions: "Into Adolescence" for middle school teachers and "Entering Adulthood" for high school teachers. This module uses eight activity-based lessons to help 9th through 12th graders make better life choices through…
Descriptors: Decision Making, High School Students, High Schools, Locus of Control
Campbell, Joan Gozzi – Learning, 1992
Presents strategies to help students resist peer pressure. The peer pressure reversal technique involves checking out the scene, making good decisions about their actions, and acting to avoid trouble. A reproducible student page provides several suggestions of wording for students to use in saying no to their friends. (SM)
Descriptors: Conformity, Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education, Peer Acceptance
Good, Perry – Learning, 1996
By teaching students self-control, teachers can powerfully affect student behavior. This involves explaining to students what negative signals are and what choices they have. By creating a classroom where students can meet their basic needs of fun, freedom, belonging, and power, teachers allow students to control their own behavior. (SM)
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, Decision Making, Discipline
Williams, Linda K.; And Others – 1996
With the purpose of developing caring and capable children, this book offers teachers and counselors a collection of over 75 activities as teaching and guidance tools. Characteristics of caring and capable children, which reflect the development of empathy, compassion, assertiveness, and self-discipline, are described. The activities are grouped…
Descriptors: Activity Units, Altruism, Children, Decision Making
Burke, Kay – 1992
Developed by teachers and staff developers and blending research with personal experience, this book offers more than 200 problem-solving strategies suitable for elementary, middle, and high school. It includes problem-solving and decision-making models, observation checklists, reflective logs, divided journals, social contracts, and graphic…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Brainstorming, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques