Video Unit 1: PeopleSmart – about friendship, trust & gullibility
Video Unit 2: JobSmart – about work-related social and safety skills
Video Unit 3: SafetySmart – about being safe in the home and on the streets
Video Unit 4: MoneySmart – about being a savvy consumer & avoiding cons.
Video Unit 5: DateSmart – about smart dating through setting boundaries
LifeSmart Teaches "Make or Break Behaviors Related to Social Success
LifeSmart enhances learning efficiency by concentrating on what experts consider the most important, "make or break" life skills. The skills essential to becoming "LifeSmart." For example, experts tell us that the majority of work injuries could be avoided if only the "core" or top 10 safety skills were practiced. As a result, the safety module in the JobSmart Video Unit concentrates on teaching those 10 "make or break" skills. Think of The LifeSmart Curriculum as a crash course on how to live with other people on planet Earth...a "Life 101”.
Life Smart Develops Emotional/Social Intelligence
Emotional IAQ, knowing how to read and respond appropriately to interpersonal situations, is often more important to job and life success than Intellectual IQ. LifeSmart will help your students develop essential emotional intelligence skills, including:
- Empathy. How to recognize how another person is feeling...and respond appropriately
- Self-awareness. How to recognize one's own feelings ..and respond appropriately
- Self-control. How to exercise emotional control when dealing with difficult people.
- Intimacy Discrimination. How to determine appropriate intimacy with another person and respond accordingly.
- Nonverbal Language Facility. How to recognize and express emotional meaning (feelings) through tone of voice, facial expressions, and other nonverbal channels.
LifeSmart Teaches How To Be “Socially Attractive" Without Compromising Personal Safety
- And because LifeSmart enhances Emotional Intelligence your students will become more pleasant to be around when interacting with classmates, co-workers, and people with whom they want to have personal relationships. A famous sociologist once described people as being like "places." Some "places" are so appealing that we return to them again and again, while other "places" are so unpleasant that we can't wait to leave. LifeSmart will show your students how to be a "nice place to visit."
- They will also learn how to develop realistic expectations in relationships and avoid being exploited or disappointed by people who might try to take advantage of them.
LifeSmart Uses A Unique "Not Smart-LifeSmart" Teaching Model
LifeSmart uses professional actors to precisely model correct and incorrect verbal and nonverbal behaviors in response to classic life situations. But before illustrating the right, LifeSmart way to behave, the consequences of the related inappropriate, or "NotSmart," behavior is always modeled first. This "Not Smart-LifeSmart" model is particularly useful for social skills training since often social success is as much the result of not doing something as it is doing something. For example, not touching inappropriately, not staring, and not gossiping are all examples of being socially "Smart."
Your Students Don't Have to Learn the Hard Way
We believe that students can learn a lot by looking at someone else's mistakes. By observing the consequences of other people's mistakes and vicariously learning from them, students can avoid much of the pain of social rejection that often accompanies in-your-face, trial-and-error experiential learning. Your students don't have to learn to be socially successful the hard way. By emulating the behavior of the LifeSmart "Video Models" your students become "LifeSmart" instead of "life-scared".
Designed for a Wide Range of Students
Although originally designed for students with mild to moderate learning, emotional, and cognitive disabilities. LifeSmart is quite appropriate for any population in need of a quick, comprehensive review of basic life skills. Simply adjust the discussion questions and activities to the level of your students.