Deliver social-emotional skills through short, frequent structured lessons with teacher manuals and parallel parent handbooks¶

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Evidence · no claims cited

Description¶

The program's delivery model pairs brief, frequent classroom lessons with structured support materials: teachers follow detailed manuals for 140 lessons of 15-20 minutes per year (4 days per week), using structured discussions and activities, games, and role plays. Parents receive handbooks that parallel the school lessons, extending the skills content to the home. Initial orientation training of 3 to 5 hours and yearly 2-4 hour sessions support implementation.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Detailed teacher manuals and materials for each lesson
• Parent handbooks paralleling the school lessons
• At least 3 to 5 hours orientation training in the first year and 2-4 hour sessions each successive year

Constraints¶

• The strategy is described as implemented within the Positive Action whole-school program; the review does not report effects of the delivery model separately from the program as a whole

Target Learners¶

• school students
• parents as home partners

Target Learning Goals¶

• social-emotional skills
• self-control
• goal-setting
• problem-solving
• persistence

Related Strategies¶

• Social Emotional Learning Curricula

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Positive Action. (2013). Positive Action. https://www.positiveaction.net