Life Skills Education – Module 1

Topic 1: Teaching of essential life skills

Background Information

Topic 2: Teaching self-awareness, potentials and goals

In topic 1, you learnt various activities, methods and resources that you can use to help learners develop essential life skills. You also learnt how to assess the development of essential life skills in learners. In this topic, you will learn how to teach and help to develop self-awareness in primary school learners. This is important because it will help learners to know themselves, discover their potentials and talents, see what values are important for them and set realistic goals. People who are aware of themselves and their potentials can contribute positively to national development. In learning how to teach self-awareness, you will discuss reasons why this skill should be taught to primary school learners, and explore appropriate activities, methods and resources for teaching the skill in both lower and upper primary.

LS - T3: Teaching of morals and values for personal development

In topic 2, you learnt about designing activities, methods and resources appropriate for promoting the development of self-awareness, potentials and goals in primary school learners. You also explored the importance of the skill of self- awareness to you as a student teacher and to the learners in primary school, and your role in assisting the learners to develop this skill. In this unit you will learn how to assist learners in primary school to become aware of morals and values accepted in the society, and how this can help them to develop their personalities. Awareness of morals and values promotes unity and peaceful co-existence among members of the society and between people and the environment. These qualities help to enhance sustainable development of the society. Your knowledge and understanding of how to promote development of morals and values in primary school learners is of great importance.

Topic 4: Teaching self- esteem and assertiveness

In the previous topic, you explored the importance of morals and values for personal development. A person cannot fully develop with morals and values alone but by having high self- esteem and assertiveness.

Topic 5: Teaching coping with emotions and stress

It is natural that individuals go through situations that are stressful which causes emotions. Such emotions and stressful situations cannot be avoided. As a teacher you will be expected to equip learners with skills for them to deal with emotional and stressful situations at home and school.

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