Description
Book SynopsisThe desire to be happy and live a good life has been a constant throughout history. In these incredibly important adolescent years, creating opportunities and encouraging teenagers to open their hearts to the world, to others, and to themselves is the most worthy and important endeavor adults can provide to them. Teaching What Matters arrives at the right time. Rates of anxiety, depression, and chronic stress for teenagers and young adults are on the rise. Social-emotional learning along with teaching to the whole child' has seen increased interest from parents, educators, principals, businesses, the general public and even government agencies. Teaching What Matters is written by a life-long teacher for any practitioner interested in fostering social and emotional skills into an existing curriculum or classroom. This book distills Banno's transformative and widely-popular high school course into a guidebook that empowers teenagers to explore the science of happiness and altruism. Te
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1: An Invitation to Teach What Matters
Chapter 2: Redefining Success
Precept #1: In order to live a successful life, we must figure out what it means to get a life.
Precept #2: Money, as a marker of success, buys happiness just not in the ways we think it does.
Precept #3: Keep it real. Develop an inner integrity to live successfully
Precept #4: Creating and committing to meaningful life goals liberate us from the tyranny of passive living.
Chapter 3: Happiness as an Inside Job. Developing emotional courage, befriending difficult emotions, cultivating positive emotions, optimism and an attitude of gratitude.
Precept #5: To be human is to be emotional, so befriend your emotions.
Precept #6: Let positivity reign. Cultivate positivity, positive emotions and optimism.
Chapter 4: It’s About Time: Giving Some Intention to Our Attention
Precept #7: Maximize aliveness by examining your relationship with time.
Precept #8: Exploring mindfulness helps to better understand the anatomy of the present and calmness in those moments.
Precept #9: Savor more and improve your relationship with time.
Precept #10: Redefine your relationship with time by rediscovering playfulness and flow.
Chapter 5: The Heart of Altruism: Compassion, Human Goodness, and Helping Others.
Precept #11: The world is not broken. There is another side to human nature. One that is constructive, benevolent, and good.
Precept #12: Heroism is always accessible and able to be chosen. We are all heroes in waiting.
Precept #13: In search of the antecedents of human goodness altruism turns up not only in nature but also in the evolutionary history of animals and humans.
Precept #14: Human nature is full of goodness, altruism, compassion and kindness.
Acknowledgements
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