Your Choice: Interpersonal Communication

Your Choice CD Roms are a complete, easy-to-use course of PSHE activities and strategies, with accompanying photocopiable master worksheets. It is designed for Personal and Social Skills lessons or active tutorial work, based on experiential learning methods. The exercises are flexible enough to be dipped into as a component of a Health Education, Religious Education, or English course.

For young people Your Choice provides a secure and stimulating framework within which they can consider their attitudes and behaviour, and develop more mature insights into their own personalities and their interaction with others.

Each handbook represents about a term's work on a specific aspect of personal skills development and each chapter provides a structures lesson plan, and suggestions for further work.

Interpersonal Communication provides opportunities for students to identify, practise and be assessed in the skills required for successful communication between people. The importance of listening is emphasised and students are helped to integrate these skills into existing relationships.

Authors Shay & Margaret McConnon spent 15 years in special education, teaching young people who had emotional and behavioural difficulties. They developed programmes to enhance the self-worth of these students and to improve their social skills. The Your Choice books are best sellers in their field and continue to form the basis for many PSHE programmes across the English-speaking world.

'Your Choice Series is a valuable resource, which can be used with flexibility – large chunks or single activities can be used with equal success'
Tracy Hollyhead, Social Inclusion Facilitator, Telford & Wrekin Council Sensory Inclusion Service.

Chapter Breakdown

1 This Is Me
2 Are You Hearing Me?
3 My Body Talks!
4 Talking Gestures
5 I'm Listening
6 Keep Talking!
7 I Hear You
8 Not Tuned In
9 Interference
10 How Do I Rate?
11 What Now?
12 Game Talk
13 How Have We Got On?
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