All-Time Favorite Lessons

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These are the lessons that teachers, counselors and youth workers clamored for: Ruth Well's all-time favorite lesson creations. Covering a broad range of topics, this book is packed with dozens of new techniques to turnaround troubled youth and children. Lesson topics include: gangs, teamwork, riding the school bus, personal space and distance, punctuality and class room behaviors. These are Ruth's most requested interventions, asked for more by participants in her workshop than any others, and developed and ...
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These are the lessons that teachers, counselors and youth workers clamored for: Ruth Well's all-time favorite lesson creations. Covering a broad range of topics, this book is packed with dozens of new techniques to turnaround troubled youth and children. Lesson topics include: gangs, teamwork, riding the school bus, personal space and distance, punctuality and class room behaviors. These are Ruth's most requested interventions, asked for more by participants in her workshop than any others, and developed and honed over many years with children and youth like yours'. The book has 20 lessons, many with cartoon handouts. If your kids have a variety of problem areas, then this book can provide a variety of the newest and best solutions for those many different areas.

If you are a counselor, teacher, foster parent, court worker, residential treatment worker, social worker or therapist, this book is a must-have addition to your tools. Packed with unusual, powerful, engaging devices to teach new skills, behaviors and attitudes, these lessons can work when conventional approaches fail. Perfect for the counseling room, therapy office, classroom or home, these lessons use a variety of up-to-the-minute colorful interventions to tackle all kinds of youth problems.

Lessons include: "Running for Help Instead of Running Away," "Teaming Up to Build a Winning Team," "Become a Think-o-Matic," "Space Invaders and Your Personal Space Forcefield," "On Time Every Time," and "The Top 10 Ways the Teacher Can't Tell You Need Help." Handouts include: "What is On Time?-- Really," "Thinking First Really Works," "Do You Want to Be Judged By These?," and "There's No Excuse for Using That Excuse."
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The Portland Oregonian Newspaper
Youth Change publishes educational materials designed to teach disruptive students the social skills necessary for good classroom performance...Dreams of abandoning school in favor of life in a rock n' roll band may be met with cartoons depicting the headline of a make-believe rock magazine: 'Wealthy Rock Star Broke.' 'I can't even balance my checkbook,' admits the fictional down-and-out star. A student who questions the value of school may be given a quiz on coping with an adult's typical day. ..School districts in Oregon like the approach well enough to invite Wells to conduct teacher training sessions.
—March 14, 1992
Youth Today
...Breakthrough Strategies to Teach and Counsel Youth is geared toward mental health workers, foster parents and case managers. Each book offers step-by-step lesson plans and handouts. In particular, 'A Child's Guide to Surviving in a Troubled Family' gives some good tips on approaching difficult topics...
—March/April 1993
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