Life skills

Life skills are abilities for adaptive and positive

behavior that enable humans to deal
effectively with the demands and challenges of
everyday life; in other words, psychosocial
competency
 Assumptions about Life Skills
1 The learners are able to make rational decisions if they are equipped
with adequate information, skills and desirable attitudes.

2 Life Skills Education is an effective intervention measure in responding

to socio-cultural problems like: HIV and AIDS, drugs and substance
abuse, school unrest among others.

3 Life Skills Education responds to critical needs of the youth

Life skills are well developed when based on the learners real life
experiences.

4Development of life skills is a life long process that starts in early

childhood and continues throughout one’s life.
Primary goal of
Life Skills
programme
 Group Development

The best known universal scheme

for group development was advanced
by Bruce Tuckman, which included four
stages: forming, storming, norming and
performing. A fifth stage was later
added called adjourning
 Group Behavior

"Group behavior" refers to the ways

people behave in large- or small-group
situations. People join groups for a
multitude of reasons, most frequently
because membership satisfies a need of
the individual.
 Cognition

“The mental action or process of acquiring

knowledge and understanding through
thought, experience, and the senses.
 Piaget’s Theory of
Cognitive Development
 Goal orientation
Goal orientation is an "individual
disposition toward developing or
validating one's ability in achievement
settings". Previous research has
examined goal orientation as a
motivation variable useful for
recruitment, climate and culture,
performance appraisal, and selection.
 Big Five Personality

The Big Five personality traits, also known as

the five factor model (FFM), is a model based on
common language descriptors of personality. When
factor analysis (a statistical technique) is applied to
personality survey data, some words used to
describe aspects of personality are often applied to
the same person. For example, someone described
as "conscientious" is more likely to be described as
"always prepared" rather than "messy".
 Extraversion

Extraversion is one of the five personality

traits of the Big Five personality theory. It
indicates how outgoing and social a person is.
A person who scores high in extraversion on a
personality test is the life of the party. They
enjoy being with people, participating in social
gatherings, and are full of energy.
 Openness to Experience

Openness to experience is one of the

domains which are used to describe
human personality in the Five Factor
Model. Openness involves six facets, or
dimensions, including active imagination
(fantasy), aesthetic sensitivity,
attentiveness to inner feelings, preference
for variety, and intellectual curiosity.
 Emotional Stability

Emotional stability at the opposite

end of the spectrum, individuals who
score low in neuroticism are
more emotionally stable and less
reactive to stress.
 Consciousness

Consciousness is the state

or quality of awareness, or, of being
aware of an external object or
something within oneself.
 Agreeableness
A person with a high level
of agreeableness in a personality test
is usually warm, friendly, and tactful.
They generally have an optimistic view
of human nature and get along well
with others.
 Personal Knowledge
Management

Personal knowledge management (PKM)

is a collection of processes that a person
uses to gather, classify, store, search,
retrieve and share knowledge in their daily
activities and the way in which these
processes support work activities .
 Analytical Information

Analytical information is information that

can be quantitative or qualitative and is used
for decision making specifically decisions and
tasks of managers.
 Social

An informal social gathering,

especially one organized by the
members of a particular club or
group.
 Learning
Learning is the act of acquiring new or
modifying and reinforcing
existing knowledge, behaviors, skills, values,
or preferences which may lead to a potential
change in synthesizing information, depth of
the knowledge, attitude or behavior relative to
the type and range of experience.
 Coping
Coping means to invest own conscious
effort, to solve personal and interpersonal
problems, in order to try to
master, minimize or
tolerate stress and conflict.
 Empathy

Empathy means ‘the ability to

understand and share the feelings of
another’ whereas sympathy means
‘feelings of pity and sorrow for
someone else's misfortune’
 Moral Development

Moral development focuses on the

emergence, change, and understanding
of morality from infancy through adulthood.
In the field of moral development, morality is
defined as principles for how individuals
ought to treat one another, with respect to
justice, others' welfare, and rights.
 Anger

Anger or Wrath is an intense emotional

response. It is an emotion that involves
a strong uncomfortable and emotional
response to a perceived provocation,
hurt or threat. ... Anger is used as a
protective mechanism to cover up fear,
hurt or sadness.
 social exclusion

It is used across disciplines including

education, sociology, psychology,
politics and economics.
 Morality

Morality is the differentiation of

intentions, decisions and actions
between those that are
distinguished as proper and those
that are improper.
 Culture

Culture is the social behavior and norms

found in human societies. Culture is a
central concept in anthropology,
encompassing the range of phenomena
that are transmitted through social
learning in human societies.
 intergroup
the absence of appropriate qualifiers, the phrase
"intergroup relations" is generally taken to refer to the
collective behavior of groups qua groups-international conflict,
status stratification, and institutional discrimination-the study
of which is traditionally regarded as the domain of sociology
 Moral emotions
the self reflects upon the self, moral self-
conscious emotions provide immediate punishment (or
reinforcement) of behavior. In effect, shame, guilt,
embarrassment, and pride function as an emotional
moral barometer, providing immediate and salient feedback on
our social and moral acceptability.
 Study skills

Study skills, academic skills, or study strategies are

approaches applied to learning. They are generally
critical to success in school, considered essential for
acquiring good grades, and useful for learning
throughout one's life.
Methods based on : Memorization
such as rehearsal and role learning
a memorization technique based on repetition. The idea
is that one will be able to quickly recall the meaning of
the material the more one repeats it. Some of the
alternatives to rote learning include meaningful learning
, associative learning, and active learning.
 Communication skills

the ability to convey or share ideas

and feelings effectively
 Reading
Reading is a means of language acquisition, communication, and
of sharing information and ideas. Like all languages, it is a
complex interaction between the text and the reader which is
shaped by the reader’s prior knowledge, experiences, attitude,
and language community which is culturally and socially
situated.
 Listening

Listening is to give one's attention to

sound. Listening involves complex
affective, cognitive, and behavioral
processes
 Flashcard

A flashcard or flash card is a set of cards

bearing information, as words or numbers,
on either or both sides, used in classroom
drills or in private study