A Jacketed SoftCoverTM
Book You Can Sink Your Mind Into
web
site special $23.96 plus free book rate shipping in the U.S. Use your
credit card or PayPal account when you checkout. Bookstores, please phone or
email for large order discount.
THE LEADERSHIP SHOP
by Patti-Jo Burtnett
A Teacher's Guide
ISBN 0-9741685-6-4 (186 pages) $29.95
Jacket Blurb:
The Leadership Shop is the Teacher's Guide for using The Friend
Factory, The Yes Bank and The Success Train in the classroom
or with groups learning about character and interpersonal development. It
contains vocabulary builders, lesson plans, activity guides, reproducibles, and
enrichment activities for elementary classrooms. Find out more by visiting www.LeadershipVillage.com.
A word from the author of the self-help chapter book series written for young children.
Developing positive, productive relationships is an essential element in the
success equation for people of all ages. Success with people is an important
prerequisite to success in other areas of one's life. Unfortunately, limited
attention is typically given to systematically teaching young children the
cognitive content and skill set required to achieve interpersonal excellence.
Instruction for young children in this area is primarily exception based. They receive explicit instruction only when their behavior is perceived, by adults, to be inappropriate or unacceptable. They are then "taught" what they should not do and what they need to do to conform to adult expectations and requirements. Beyond that, though, they are largely on-their-own in the interpersonal arena.
When children reach adolescence, adult interest in their interpersonal choices sharply increases and is often intense. Adults become keenly interested in the young person's relationships and equally interested in providing advice and guidance to the adolescent through discussion, one-on-one lectures, classroom lessons, articles, books, and through any other potentially open channel. Some of this educational effort is successful but much of it is not.
The factors that limit the effectiveness of interpersonal education for teens are varied but stem largely from a simple, underlying issue. Just as the primary developmental emphasis on emotional development is when children are three to five-years-old, the primary developmental emphasis on social (interpersonal) development is when children are in elementary school. By the time they reach adolescence, their core interpersonal knowledge and skills have already developed. What's more, they developed when the children were largely on-their-own in the interpersonal arena.
The Friend Factory, The Yes Bank, and The Success Train are written to be synchronous with the interpersonal development of young children. The elementary school years are the optimal time for children to acquire the requisite knowledge and skills needed to succeed on their journey to interpersonal excellence.
Marissa and I want to thank Patti-Jo Burtnett for developing this teacher's guide and for making the lesson plans and other teaching materials available in such a teacher-friendly format. When combined with the three books in the series, they are a powerful set of tools for use when teaching young children what they must know to achieve interpersonal excellence. Thanks are likewise extended to Sharolett Koenig, President of Koenisha Publications, for her enthusiastic support of The Leadership Shop series and this teacher's guide.
Marissa and I also want to thank you for your interest in The Leadership Shop. More importantly, we want to thank you for focusing your professional time and effort on the life-critical task of teaching young children how to succeed on their journey toward interpersonal excellence.
GAC, Ph.D.
You can contact Dr. Crow at GaryCrow@LeadershipVillage.com or visit his web site at www.LeadershipVillage.com where you can find out more about him and Marissa and other Leadership Village officials, as well as Patti-Jo Burtnett.
Purchase The Leadership Shop by Patti-Jo Burtnett for $23.96 and get free
book rate shipping in the U.S. Use your credit card or PayPal account when you
checkout. Bookstores, please phone or email for large order discounts.
The Success Train by Gary Crow and Marissa Crow
The Yes Bank
by Gary Crow and Marissa Crow
The Friend Factory by Gary Crow and Marissa Crow