Sessions | Main contents |
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1. The skills I start with | To learn effective communication skills. Participants are invited to think about their strengths and difficulties in regard to their communication strategies with teachers and peers. |
2. Managing difficult emotions | To learn effective anger management skills. Participants are made aware of a range of emotions, the triggers for some emotions and some alternatives for managing them. |
3. Understanding conflicts | To learn strategies for self-calming and de-escalating confrontations. |
4. I have choices | To learn to appreciate the availability of different alternatives in a range of situations, to appreciate choices; their causes and effects. |
5. Check it out | To learn to identify difficulties in comprehension; being aware of confusion by instructions; positive skills and attitudes to ask for extra explanations (e.g., interrupting appropriately). |
6. Different talk for different people | To learn to adjust the way of talking depending on one’s conversation partner and location. Develop an understanding of the difference between formal and informal communication exchanges. |
7. Looking back looking forward | Evaluate personal performance and setting goals for the second part of the course. |
8. Co-operating with others | To learn assertive communication skills in-group situations. Discussing with others in small groups, accepting others’ opinion, changing personal opinions. |
9. Aggressive, Assertive, Passive | To learn to understand and be aware of different styles of communication (aggressive, assertive, passive) and develop skills for adaptive, assertive interchange. |
10. Communication without talk | To learn to understand body language and non-verbal signals. To be aware of potential biases based on non-verbal signs/stereotypes (dress, ethnicity, posture, etc.). |
11. I can change my world | To learn to identify and acknowledge personal difficulties with classroom behaviour and identify strategies to improve. |
12. Summing up | Final session summarizing the learning process, relevance of communication skills, personal achievements and personal challenges. |