Hipknotics @ The Bentley Community Center Summer '23

Description

This curriculum aims to teach students social-emotional skills through various activities. The curriculum includes training self-management muscles by creating a vision board and setting academic and personal goals, stress management by creating a list of coping skills, relationship building by creating gratitude letters, responsible decision-making by evaluating and reflecting on actions, analyzing situations to determine potential consequences, improving communication skills, accurate self-perception by challenging negative self-talk, and recognizing strengths through the VIA Character Strengths survey. The curriculum emphasizes the importance of building positive relationships, appreciating diversity, and developing self-awareness and self-efficacy. The overall message is that educators can be creative in teaching social-emotional skills to students.

The text and workbook "Just Like Music" outlines a series of activities designed to help students develop various social and emotional skills. These activities include building resilience, self-awareness, self-management, responsible decision-making, and relationship skills. Students will engage in hands-on activities, create scenarios, identify lyrics in songs, and participate in service-learning projects to develop these skills. The overall message is that developing these skills is important for personal growth and success, and that students can benefit from engaging in activities that promote social and emotional learning.

In-Person Instruction

Cost - Free