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This project will focus on students’ identity development. Areas that will be impacted include, but not limited too: self-concept, self-esteem, 'Who Am I', relationships, behaviors and how to deal with anxiety and depression. Through a multitude of life skills lessons, students will develop strategies to use to help maintain positive self behaviors. Dianne Maroney stated it well: "how we think has great impact on how we feel, which impacts how we act, which in turn impacts what we experience in the world.” Research has shown that social-emotional wellness in the classroom is critical to our students success. Social and emotional learning benefits students by helping them develop important emotional wellness skills, including managing themselves, understanding and relating to others, and making good choices'. I feel as a teacher it is important for me to teach the basic life skills to prepare them for their future careers. Social-emotional wellness is critical not only in todays world of uncertainties and division, but it is critical for generations to come. On the whole, life skills education, have found to be an effective psychosocial intervention strategy for promoting positive social, and mental health of adolescents which plays an important role in all aspects such as strengthening coping strategies and developing self-confidence and emotional intelligence along with much more.

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This project will focus on students’ identity development. Areas that will be impacted include, but not limited too: self-concept, self-esteem, 'Who Am I', relationships, behaviors and how to deal with anxiety and depression. Through a multitude of life skills lessons, students will develop strategies to use to help maintain positive self behaviors. Dianne Maroney stated it well: "how we think has great impact on how we feel, which impacts how we act, which in turn impacts what we experience in the world.” Research has shown that social-emotional wellness in the classroom is critical to our students success. Social and emotional learning benefits students by helping them develop important emotional wellness skills, including managing themselves, understanding and relating to others, and making good choices'. I feel as a teacher it is important for me to teach the basic life skills to prepare them for their future careers. Social-emotional wellness is critical not only in todays world of uncertainties and division, but it is critical for generations to come. On the whole, life skills education, have found to be an effective psychosocial intervention strategy for promoting positive social, and mental health of adolescents which plays an important role in all aspects such as strengthening coping strategies and developing self-confidence and emotional intelligence along with much more.

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