Study Guides and Professional Development Overview

Topics address the concerns around emotional needs and how the content areas work together providing a strong emphasis on the whole child.

• Confidence building
• Sense of self
• Accepting and understanding differences
• Peer pressure
• Decision-making
• Importance of strong family connection
• Coping with loss in a child’s world
• Loss of a loved one
• Loss of a friend
• Loss of a pet
• Divorce
• Displacement
• Incarceration

Study Guides link New York State Learning Standards with Performance Indicators

• Using creative drama to communicate ideas and feelings
• Imitate experiences through dramatic play, role playing, storytelling, story dramatization
• Identify and use in individual and group experiences roles, processes and action