Raising Self-Esteem in Primary Schools: A Whole School Training Programme

Children with low self-esteem will have difficulty in partaking in classroom lessons and succeeding. If we want to help children in the primary school to achieve the positive outcomes set out in the Every Child Matters agenda, we need to ensure all children have a healthy self-esteem. This book seeks to give adults in schools tools to look at the way they could enhance self esteem in children.

The book comes with an accompanying CD-Rom which contains:

• inset sessions for all adults in the school
• workshops specifically aimed at non-teaching personnel, including mid-day supervisors
• sessions for teachers and classroom assistants
• classroom lessons and activity sheets for the children which can form part of your school's personal, social and health education (PSHE) programme.

This book is a whole school training programme for raising self-esteem and is essential reading for all those working in primary education.

Table of Contents

Introduction

How to use this book

The CD

PART ONE: THE DRAW AND WRITE CLASSROOM-BASED ILLUMINATIVE RESEARCH STRATEGY; 'AM I CONFIDENT?'

PART TWO: TRAINING WORKSHOPS FOR MIDDAY SUPERVISORS (MDDS) AND OTHER ADULTS

PART THREE: TRAINING WORKSHOPS FOR TEACHERS AND CLASSROOM ASSISTANTS

PART FOUR: LESSONS AND ACTIVITY SHEETS FOR CHILDREN; AN INTEGRAL PART OF THE ADULT TRAINING

PART FIVE: FURTHER LESSONS AND ACTIVITY SHEETS

Appendix

The optimist creed

A useful self esteem profile page at the end which could be used with older children as a check sheet.

Resources