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Bounce Back! Teacher's Handbook - Helen McGrath and Toni Noble

The Bounce Back! classroom resiliency program offers practical strategies to help all young people cope with the complexity of their everyday lives and learn to 'bounce back' when they experience sadness, difficulties, frustrations and hard times.

The program comprises a teacher's handbook and three teacher's resource books: junior primary; middle primary; upper primary to junior secondary. Together, these classroom resources offer schools (and other community agencies) a comprehensive program for enhancing student resilience (and teacher resilience too!).

New SOSE Module - Children's Rights, Children's Lives:

The Queensland Commission for Children and Young People and Child Guardian is publishing a new SOSE module, Children's rights, children's lives for teachers.

"Children's rights, children's lives" engages upper primary school students in conversations about children's rights, the principles underlying these rights and how they are enacted in government and society.

While the modules resources and activities are designed to promote learning outcomes for Years 6 and 7 students, trials revealed that many are also suitable for early secondary year students.

Copies of the module and associated resources will be available from the Commission's website after 19 July.

The Really Big Beliefs Project
Emma Barnard and Thomas Cho (Class 6W) have chosen to write about people's beliefs for their class project.

They put a lot of thought into how to approach the task and decided not to attempt to produce an encyclopedia full of facts, but to take a more personal approach, talking to family, friends and people in their neighbourhood to discover how their daily lives are informed and affected by their beliefs.

A mix of personal interviews, field trips and research has provided Tom and Emma with a better understanding of what people believe and how they express it. They've also provided some rather enlightening illustrations and photographs for the book.

Emma and Thomas looked at Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Islamic, Judaic and secular, as well as Shinto and Taoist, beliefs.
Resources for Studying Ethics in Primary Schools — a Department of Education, Queensland, publication

This book was written by Garth Read- Med, Dip.RE, Dip.Div when he was Senior Policy Officer for Student Personal Development in 1996.

This book provides teachers with a variety of resources which can be used in various key learning areas and other school programs where reference can be made to ethical issues. One of the aims of studying ethics seeks to develop students' ability to make personal judgements in relation to values and morals so this book will be a good resource to support the current Values Education initiative.

This publication is no longer in print. For copies contact the Queensland Project Officer - rosalie.shawcross@deta.qld.gov.au.

Understanding Ethics - Noel Preston

Understanding Ethics introduces the frameworks of moral philosophy to analyse contemporary moral issues and perennial human dilemmas. Noel Preston outlines his own model for decision-making based on the idea of responsibility, and finishes with a challenging chapter, "Cultivating an Ethical Life".

Regardless of your stage of life, this is thinking which equips you to make challenging decisions, now and in the unforeseeable future.

Values Fiction by Fran Knight

This book is a list of fiction books under values themes - over 200 titles organised by picture books, middle primary and upper primary fiction.

Values Strategies For Classroom Teachers

Marion Lemin et al. (Editors)
ACER, 1994

Values Strategies for Classroom Teachers cleverly bridges the gap between theory and practice. The book includes practical activities for students. In the form of photocopy masters for activity sheets. Teachers do need to help their students argue and reason; to identify what their values are; and, importantly, to come to terms with the notion of the common good and their part in it. This book will assist all secondary teachers, regardless of subject area.

The latest resource in values strategies provides:
- values activities across the curriculum at every level;
- photocopiable masters for many activities;
- activities that have been developed by practising classroom teachers; and
- resource file for further development of suggested activities.

Worldviews

This is a set of three exciting new resources published by the Council for Christian Education in Schools, Melbourne, in conjunction with Anglican Youth Works, Sydney. These resources offer teachers an innovative and integrated approach to values education: a 'worldviews' approach.

Teaching about Worldviews and Values

A detailed rationale and explanation of this innovative approach to values education is provided, together with a wide-ranging, yet succinct survey of contemporary worldviews. With a particular focus on text and language, practical suggestions show how this approach can be employed in the teaching of English and other key learning areas, such as History, Science and Art.

Worlds of Difference 1: Exploring Worldviews and Values in English Texts

This stunningly illustrated volume presents a fresh and engaging approach to the study of English texts for students aged 15-16 years. Traditional and contemporary texts commonly studied at this level are examined in terms of the variety of worldviews and values perspectives they offer on a range of themes and life issues.

Worlds of Difference 2: Exploring Worldviews and Values in English Themes

Following the precedent set by Worlds of Difference 1, this second volume, for students aged 14-15 years, explores a range of themes and life issues, offering examples for study from a variety of traditional and contemporary texts.

For further information , please contact the CCES:
Ph 03 9602 1993

Studying Society and Environment - a Guide for Teachers
Edited by Rob Gilbert
Social Science Press (Ph: 4782 2909)
ISBN 1876633298

Values Education in Australian Schools
Brian V Hill
ACER
ISBN 0864310781

The Puzzle of Ethics
Peter Vardy and Paul Grosch
FOUNT
ISBN 000627701-2

The Six Value Medals
Edward de Bono
VERMILION
ISBN 009189459X

Introducing Ethics
Dave Robinson and Chris Garratt
ICON BOOKS (UK) TOTEM BOOKS (US)
ISBN 1 840460776

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