This site has some of those life lessons that I was
talking about in my post that I often feel my students need to know but are not
learning at home. Since teachers are
being asked to parent more and more at school, maybe we should be responsible
for teaching them?
Begun, R.W. (1996). Ready-to-Use Social Skills Lessons and Activities for Grades 4-6.
San Francisco, CA. Jossey-Bass.
This book gives teachers lesson guides to use in the
classroom to teach life lessons and important social skills. You can preview the book at amazon.com here: http://www.amazon.com/Ready-Social-Skills-Lessons-Activities/dp/0876284748/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_z
McCall, J. (2011). Gaming the Past: Using Video Games to Teach Secondary History. New
York, NY. Routledge.
This book is written all about using progressive
education such as video games to connect and engage students in learning
history, much like the Quest to Learn
schools. You can preview the book here: http://www.amazon.com/Ready-Social-Skills-Lessons-Activities/dp/0876284748/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_z
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