Designs For Progress provides Teaching At Risk Students for teaching at-risk, corrections and adult basic education students. We offer innovative methods for teaching life skill curriculum, character education and reentry programs. Life skills and character education lesson plans are incorporated the student workbooks and the Instructor Resources Guides. We also provide a series of teacher professional development programs to help teachers reach at-risk students.

If you work with at-risk juveniles, adults in basic education or GED classes, inmates, or parolees, you know that at-risk students need more than mathematics and reading. They need teaching life skills curriculum or Teaching At Risk Students. Click on the headings in the maroon band at the top of the page to see a listing of the materials we provide for students and professionals.

Student materials are designed to improve self-esteem, encourage positive changes, help students take responsibility for their actions and develop a plan for their lives. All student materials are completely REPRODUCIBLE. Staff development programs give teachers tools for Teaching At Risk Students and teaching life skill curriculum.

Personal Living Skills Series: Corrections Student Workbooks

Categories | Corrections | Personal Living Skills Series: Corrections Student

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Taking Responsibility and Control   Product Code: CS 9801  Corrections students often feel their situation is hopeless. Hopelessness and the accompanying depression stems from the perception that they have no control. The Taking Responsibility and Control workbook can help turn that situation around.    Inmate students will find they have new power and freedom the minute they exercise self-control and take responsibility for their attitudes and actions. Taking Responsibility and Control shows inmates that even in the confines of a correctional facility, they can take control of their lives. It explains how they can gain from their efforts. Students are shown specific ways to change and are challenged to begin to take responsibility and control, regardless of their past or present situation. This is a must read book to facilitate successful reentry into the community after incarceration. Because it is a significant problem for many students, there is a special section on gaining control of anger.   Product content: 102 pages   Price: $139.00 Shipping: Calculated at Checkout   Qty	Tools for Successful Living   Product Code: CS 9802  Students in correctional settings have traditionally failed in public school settings. As a result, they perceive they are failures at learning. This workbook gives inmates physiological proof that they can learn. It also helps them develop attitudes and skills to make learning easier and faster. Corrections education students can master these valuable skills and gain the attitudes they need to improve their chances for success as they move toward reentry into the community. No matter what corrections education students have done in the past, or where they are now, they can live successfully using the concepts covered in Tools for Successful Living.   Product content: 78 pages   Price: $139.00 Shipping: Calculated at Checkout   Qty
Improving Self-Esteem   Product Code: CS 9803  Self-esteem is the attitude a person has about him or herself. Attitudes are learned. Often, corrections students have learned poor self-esteem based on failures in school, at work, in relationships, and in adhering to the laws of society. But attitudes can be unlearned or changed. Improving Self-Esteem introduces the seven basic building blocks of self-esteem: Self-acceptance Self-confidence Self-respect Self-determination Self-discipline Self-fulfillment Sense of Humor Corrections students use specific steps in Improving Self-Esteem increase their self-esteem and change their attitudes in each of the seven building blocks. When they are able to increase their self-perception in even one area, it often spills over into other areas, creating an upward spiral of success. Product content: 95 pages   Price: $139.00 Shipping: Calculated at Checkout   Qty	Taking Care of Yourself   Product Code: CS 9804  Corrections students have opportunities for exercise and other healthy habits while they are incarcerated. However, many fail to take advantage of them. In fact, diet, smoking, lack of exercise, poor mental and poor mental health are often earmarks of incarceration. This can contribute to chronic depression and make successful reentry into the community very difficult. Taking Care of Yourself introduces the important and often ignored concept of total health by describing five health areas: Physical Mental Emotional Social Spiritual The workbook uses examples such as AIDS, other sexually transmitted diseases, and depression to help corrections students understand the importance of physical and mental health. Smoking, alcohol, and drug abuse receive special attention, including proven action plans for stopping these abuses. Using step-by-step worksheets, corrections students are motivated to improve their health and to improve their chances for successful reentry when they are released.   Product content: 92 pages   Price: $139.00 Shipping: Calculated at Checkout   Qty
Making Spare Time Good Time   Product Code: CS 9805  Corrections education students frequently have difficulty finding something to do in their spare time. Recreational opportunities are limited in many facilities and inmates need help realizing all the ways they can make their spare time both productive and satisfying. When they do find positive outlets, corrections education students feel better and behave better.   Making Spare Time Good Time defines recreation, listing over three-hundred sports, hobbies, and recreational activities. The workbook shows corrections education students the advantages of participating in activities they like. Making Spare Time Good Time gives them opportunities to choose activities they would like to learn more about. They are strongly encouraged to become involved to the extent they can, using balance and moderation.   Product content: 72 pages   Price: $139.00 Shipping: Calculated at Checkout   Qty	Developing Your Values   Product Code: CS 9806  Many corrrections education students are incarcerated because their values are not in line with those society accepts. Those values were often learned from past authorty figures and peers who fostered dishonesty, immediate gratification, prejudice and bias. Those attitudes did not serve corrections education students well before they were arrested and they continue to produce negative results during incarceration and when they reenter the community.   When corrections education students improve their values, they improve their odds for success both during incarceration and after reentry.   Developing Your Values explains why and how principles, standards of behavior, and laws are formed. After looking at religious and social sources of values, corrections education students learn advantages and reasons for choosing positive behaviors. Personal standards of good conduct and alternatives to bad social behaviors are described.   Developing Your Values discusses cults, gangs, prejudice, sexual, and racial discrimination so corrections education students understand their inherent dangers. The workbook also discusses guilt, avoiding excessive guilt, and working through guilt feelings. Developing Your Values introduces corrections education students to the positive benefits of successful living through honesty, impulse control, and empathy.   Product content: 90 pages   Price: $139.00 Shipping: Calculated at Checkout   Qty
Set of Six: Corrections Personal Living Skills Series Workbooks   Product Code: CS 9000  The complete set of six Corrections Personal Living Skills Series Student Workbooks contains the following: Taking Responsibility and Control Tools for Successful Living Improving Self-Esteem Taking Care of Yourself Making Spare Time Good Time Developing Your Values Product content: 6 books, 529 pages   Price: $750.00 Shipping: Calculated at Checkout   Qty

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