Teaching Life Skills to School Age Children

If you are employed in a state that uses a registry to track professional development hours, you will be able to provide your registry ID (Stars, MOPID, Registry or other ECE ID#) after you have completed the quiz for the course. If you pass the quiz we will report your course completion to the state registry using the registry ID that you provide.

This course is about teaching school age children the life skills they need to do well in their classrooms, relationships and in future endeavors. As children grow, they need to take more and more responsibility for their own lives and the adults in their lives can be great assets in helping them along the way. Course length – 2.5 hours.

• The course helps answer the following questions:

• How can I teach them how to give and expect respect?

• How can I teach them to follow directions?

• How can I teach them about setting goals?

• How can I teach them how to make smart decisions?

• How can I teach them to better manage their time:

• How can I teach them self-care?

• How can I teach them social skills?

• How can I teach them problem solving?

Participants who successfully complete this course will be able to:

• Teach children decision making skills.

• Teach children time management skills.

• Teach children problem solving skills.