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Helping to be Human
Jennifer GreenFort Dearborn Press |
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Helping to be Human
Jennifer GreenFort Dearborn Press |
By Jennifer Green
Teaching Teens Psychological Independence
Helping to be Human is a common-sense guide to psychological and emotional discovery for teachers of teens. It helps you help teens discover the truth, the personal truth that lies within. The personal truth that needs to be discovered before crucial steps into life are endured. It helps teens decide: "Where is my place in life?" It shows them how to mold their lives to fit their goals. It teaches them to not waste time and to create their own lives, leading instead of being led.
This 17-chapter book is devised as a week-by-week course, set up to complement a seventeen-week semester. It offers reflective lessons on topics such as fear, love ambitions, goals, dreams, and personality. Author Jennifer Green has provided exercises at the end of each chapter. These include penetrating questions alongside ample space for "free writes", which is an essential element towards human growth.
Ms. Green possesses an insight teens can relate to, allowing them to reach a deeper look into themselves. Her language and approach provide a solid working platform. Her book helps you create for teens an enjoyable environment for discovery -- offering them a real opportunity for personal exploration hindering the various popular routes of teens 'not knowing' about their futures, goals, and personal interests.
Helping to be Human is about helping your teen students feel whole. Fueled through self-discovery and self-guidance, this teaching tool is set up as a question and answer personal journal where the student already knows the answers on a deep level, yet needs help tapping into their personal source to allow those answers to surface. By joining the elements of academia and the individual free spirit, Helping to be Human offers a building block for teens to begin with after leaving the comforts of high school.
Example:
Think about how you feel when faced with issues that seem emotionally complex. Issues may seem simple on the surface yet as the issues are targeted and penetrated they seem quite challenging. Think about the times you have negatively sacrificed yourself to please others. Ask why. Then, think about the times you put others down to boost yourself up. Again, ask why. What you're really asking yourself is why you're afraid to come out of your shell and why you may pretend to be something you're not.
About the Author:
Ms. Green is a Purdue graduate. She has an extensive history in the practical aspects of behavorial sciences, having worked extensively with social workers, psycho therapists and psychiatrists on specialized youth cases. Growing up, Ms. Green attended about fourteen different public schools across the country, giving her first-hand knowledge about what is lacking in an educational curriculum: being human. In her work, Ms. Green has developed many techniques to help high schoolers learn and develop the acceptance of self, techniques which she shares in her book Helping to Be Human.
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