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Macmillan Education

Know Yourself

For Teachers 6th - Higher Ed
After completing a short self-assessment, partners use the provided questions and take turns acting as life coaches.
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Macmillan Education

Get Organised

For Teachers 6th - Higher Ed
The focus of the first lesson in a 23-lesson life skills unit is on getting organized. The worksheets ask users to identify areas of their lives were they need more organization and then offer suggestions and solutions. 
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Macmillan Education

Networking and Effective Communication

For Teachers 6th - Higher Ed Standards
What makes a great networker? Learners explore valuable life skills and interpersonal character traits, and consider how to present oneself in the most effective way during an opportunity to network. 
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Career/Work

For Teachers 6th - Higher Ed Standards
Learners explore their perspectives of different occupations, discover what life skills will be valuable to them in whatever career path they choose, and discuss important terms related to the work environment. 
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Macmillan Education

Positive and Creative Thinking

For Teachers 6th - Higher Ed
Positive thinking can be powerful. The exercises on these worksheets will encourage class members to be creative, resourceful, and optimistic. 
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Macmillan Education

Networking

For Teachers 6th - Higher Ed Standards
"It's not what you know, it's who you know." Learners discuss and analyze this age-old adage by completing life skills worksheets, collaborative activities, and discussions regarding the nature of networking and how it may improve future...
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Macmillan Education

What Do You See?

For Teachers 6th - Higher Ed Standards
Encourage learners to develop greater self-awareness and an understanding of perception versus reality. Here you'll find a life skills lesson that includes worksheets, discussion, and brainstorming activities on the topic of how we see...
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Macmillan Education

Self/Social

For Teachers 6th - Higher Ed Standards
Body language, our perception of others, and how to make a better impression socially are the focus topics for this lesson, which is part of a 23-lesson series on building important life skills. Learners complete a questionnaire on...
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Macmillan Education

Skills and Attitudes

For Teachers 6th - Higher Ed Standards
What kinds of skills and attitudes are valued in a work environment? Using this set of worksheets and collaborative activities, your pupils will develop important life skills and consider what is necessary for getting and keeping a job.
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Macmillan Education

Teamwork

For Teachers 6th - Higher Ed Standards
Learners develop self-awareness and discuss the importance of cooperation and communication through worksheets and hands-on, collaborative activities. 
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Macmillan Education

Communicate/Cooperate

For Teachers 6th - Higher Ed Standards
Prepare pupils to communicate effectively throughout their lives with this set of worksheets and activities, which are part of a 23-lesson series on valuable life skills. Class members will define communication and cooperation, discuss...
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Macmillan Education

People Management

For Teachers 6th - Higher Ed Standards
Introduce your pupils to the invaluable life skill of team and project management. Through worksheets, discussion, and role-playing activities, learners practice using tactful language, explore various management styles, and identify...
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Macmillan Education

Critical Thinking

For Teachers 6th - Higher Ed Standards
Encourage learners to think deeply about the information they read or hear. Through a series of life skills worksheets, your pupils will consider the need for objectivity, identifying missing information, and problem solving.
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Macmillan Education

Changing Your Mindset

For Teachers 6th - Higher Ed Standards
Why do some people achieve their goals and persevere despite the setbacks they face? This question is the focus of this life skills lesson, which includes worksheets, discussion, and collaborative activities on developing a growth mindset.
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Self-Awareness and Respect

For Teachers 6th - Higher Ed
The eighth in a series of 23 life skills exercises focuses on self-awareness and respect. Groups record, on the provided worksheets, words and phrases that signal respect, and generate lists of behaviors that signal respect.
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Macmillan Education

Prioritising Effectively

For Teachers 6th - Higher Ed Standards
How do you determine the things you must do during your day from those that you want to do, or are willing to put off? Time management and prioritizing effectively are the focus of this life skills lesson, which includes worksheets,...
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Macmillan Education

Study Skills

For Teachers 6th - Higher Ed Standards
Go beyond simply telling students to improve their work ethic and study habits with this complete lesson on developing study skills! 
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Lesson Plan
Macmillan Education

Challenging Assumptions

For Teachers 6th - Higher Ed Standards
After experiencing how quick and easy it is to make judgments as part of an opening activity, learners discuss the concept of a stereotype and the need to think critically and question our immediate assumptions.
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Macmillan Education

Time Management

For Teachers 6th - 12th
The benefits of good time management and the consequences for poor time management are the focus of a series of exercises designed for ELL/ELD classes but appropriate for all learners.
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Macmillan Education

Social Skills

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Every culture has a set of social skills one must learn to establish and maintain relationships. Some of these skills are particular to a culture and some are universal. Class members practice using appropriate language, polite manners,...
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Macmillan Education

Cultural Awareness

For Teachers 6th - 12th
The importance of cultural awareness, of becoming aware of our own and other cultures, and the benefits of gaining a deeper understanding of the differences between cultures, is the focus of this resource. Working individually, in pairs,...
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Macmillan Education

Study Skills

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Good study habits are key to success in school. The activities in this packet are designed to get kids thinking about improvements they could make in their study habits.
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Macmillan Education

Communication

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Especially tricky for language is understanding the line between inappropriate, confrontational, (in)effective, (un)reasonable and diplomatic English. The activities in the resource permit class members to practice communicating using...
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Curated OER

Electing a President

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Learners brainstorm and list qualities that they would look for in a president; students rank qualities in order of importance.

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