Community, Family, and Social Skills as Elements of Educational Curriculum for Life
This page outlines teaching curriculum ideas for Community, Family, and Social Skills as elements of the “Play” category of the Curriculum for Life component of the open source Education for Life Program. This curriculum is meant as a globally collaborative and ever-expanding archive of ideas to be combined with the Teaching Strategies for Life component, and Learning Tools and Toys for Life component, to create endless Lesson Plans for Life purposed to grow and evolve what we feel will be the most comprehensive, effective, and diversely applicable free-education program and open source and free-shared project-launch usable education blueprint in the world.
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COMMUNITY, FAMILY, & SOCIAL SKILLS CURRICULUM
The following is a list of community, family, and social skills curriculum topics divided into 3 categories: “Community,” “Family,” and “Social Skills.” If you have an idea or section that you believe should be included here, please send it to us using our Suggestions Page. Visit our Lesson Plans Page for lesson plans designed to integrate this curriculum.
NOTE: Curriculum with asterisks is curriculum we consider “core curriculum” that is central to the lesson plan design process. To identify these subjects we adopted the California Department of Education guidelines (because they are some of the most comprehensive and strict in the nation), added in the national SAT/ACT expectations for grade 7 and beyond, referenced the US Common Core State Standards Documents, and then double checked our curriculum and goals against the best selling and #1 teacher recommended Spectrum Test Prep workbook series. Curriculum with “*” is curriculum identified through these methods as foundational to 1st-6th grade learning. Curriculum with “**” is curriculum identified through these methods as foundational to 7th-12th learning.
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Family
- What is a family? What makes people a family? (consanguinity ‘blood’, affinity, co-residence, etc.)*
- Types of families: conjugal (nuclear family), consanguineal (extended family), matrilocal, etc.*
- Exploration of different individual and cultural ideas that define families and their roles*
- Family lineages*
- Family creeds*
- Family traditions*
- Family relationships*
- Family roles and responsibilities (past, present, future)*
- Family related law and legalities (marriage, custody, property, power of attorney, etc.)
- Non-traditional family models (cohabitation, civil unions, same-sex relationships, etc.)
- Family as an institution for socialization
- Family as an economics unit (family economics)
- Engaging family in your personal growth process (idea source was Reggio)
- Contribution within a family and outside (see Also: Contribution Curriculum)*
- Family as a microcosm of the community*
- See Also: Social Science Curriculum
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Social Skills
- What are social skills and why are they important?*
- Social competence and conscious personality development (idea source was Waldorf)
- Emotional skills exploration, acquisition, and application*
- Cognitive skills exploration, acquisition, and application*
- Behavioral skills exploration, acquisition, and application*
- Social skills exploration for recreational environments*
- Social skills exploration for professional environments*
- Social skills exploration for other formal environments*
- Exploration of selfhood*
- Group thinking versus thinking for yourself*
- Strategies for team building, forming and organizing groups*
- Exploration of different roles in social environments and groups (idea source was Reggio)*
- Strategies for listening with individuals and groups*
- Strategies for communicating with individuals and groups*
- Strategies of leadership with individuals and in groups*
- Strategies for management of and in groups*
- Strategies for supporting others individually and in groups*
- Strategies for energizing and encouraging others and groups*
- Strategies for offering and asking for help individually and in groups*
- Strategies for agreement and disagreement individually and in groups*
- Conflict resolution (beyond disagreement) strategies*
- Explore points of view and respecting the opinions of others*
- Consensus meaning, value, and skills
- Negotiation and compromise skills
- Politeness and gratitude skills
- Fairness and honor skills
- Respecting all things
- See Also: Communication Curriculum
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