Your Choice: Self-Esteem

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.

Self-Esteem offers a variety of structured experiences designed to enhance students' self-esteem and positive feelings about themselves and others. The skills of handling positive and negative 'put-downs' are also dealt with.

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 It's Good To Be Me!
2 Be Proud!
3 If I Could Choose
4 Feeling Good
5 It's Great To Be Me!
6 Thank You, I...
7 Put-Downs
8 How To Handle Put-Downs
9 Illusions
10 Be Happy
11 Positive Strokes
12 What It Feels Like To Be Me
13 You Are OF Worth But...
14 What Now?
15 What Have We Got On?