Personal and social wellbeing Flashcards
What are life skills?
The abilities for adaptive and positive behaviours that equip individuals to deal with everyday challenges effectively.
Three things that are key to the life skills classroom
- Opportunities to learn and practice skills
- Recognition of learners’ personal
backgrounds/thoughts/feelings - Creativity (role play, crafts etc)
Areas of knowledge in personal and social wellbeing
- Personal wellbeing
- Social wellbeing
- Sexuality education
- Health and safety education
How should activities be sequenced in an LS classroom?
Me –> My family –> My school
Aims of life skills ed
- Helping learners make informed, morally responsible
decisions about their health and the environment - Equip learners with skills to relate positively to others
and make valuable contributions in social situations - Equip learners with critical thinking skills, creativity
and empathy - Equip learners with skills/knowledge/values to achieve
their full potential physically, intellectually, socially,
emotionally - Encourages independent responses to life’s challenges
How does one make lessons culturally and developmentally appropriate?
- Knowledge of the stages of development/typical behaviour of certain age groups
- Knowledge of the sociocultural context of learners
- Knowledge of learner preferences (interests, abilities)
- Using examples easily accessible to learners, making
their learning meaningful
In the foundation phase, life skills consists of 4 study areas:
- Beginning knowledge
- Personal and social wellbeing
- Creative arts
- Physical ed
Bronfenbrenner’s bioecological systems model
- A child is a system within other systems
- Happenings in one system have a ripple effect on
other systems
Systems in the bioecological model
- The individual
- Microsystem
- Mesosystem
- Exosystem
- Macrosystem
- Chronosystem
Gardner’s multiple intelligences
- Musical
- Verbal-linguistic
- Intrapersonal
- Interpersonal
- Bodily-kinaesthetic
- Logical-mathematical
- Visual-spatial
- Naturalistic
The exosystem consists of…
Settings which have an indirect impact on the individual
Example: Parent’s workplace
The chronosystem is…
The timeline of events that occur in the individual’s life
The mesosystem is…
The interaction between different parts of the individual’s microsystem
Learners need to learn the following to deal with conflict
- Listen to the other person
- Attempt to see the other’s perspective
- Talk about possible solutions
- Implement a compromise
What can a teacher do to prevent bullying?
- Foster good relationships with all learners
- Plan activities that include all learners
- Provide interventions for all parties (bully, bystander,
victim)
- Provide clear class rules which include rules against bullying
Social justice
the view that everyone deserves equal economic, political and social rights and opportunities
Equality
being equal in terms of rights and opportunities
Anti-bias education
an approach to early childhood ed that uses values in support of respecting and embracing difference as well as acting against bias and unfairness
Tolerance
permitting an action/idea/person that one dislikes or disagrees with
Diversity
the state of variety/being different from one another
Empathy
the ability to understand and share the feelings of others
Moral development
the process in which learners develop attitudes and behaviours toward others in society based on social and cultural norms
Practices that set a class up for social development
- Be respectful of socioeconomic differences in class
- Pre-empt conflict situations by equipping them with
tools for management - Use mistakes as learning opportunities
- Encourage questions and discussions
- Implement realistic rules with learners’ input
- Share responsibilities
- Make use of play
Sexuality
the whole person including their sexual thoughts, experiences and ideas related to being male or female
