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Child delevoplment video (New York, N.Y.) Complete new releases curriculum library 2006 Core curriculum video libraries (Cambridge educational (Firm)) Core curriculum video library Cyber sense series Everyday character development Family & consumer sciences collection Going home, teens reeentering society What would you do? (New York, N.Y.) Work it out!Summary: The friendships that are formed during adolescence provide teenagers with some of their fondest memories. Friendships can also influence individuals to do things that they normally wouldn't do. Actions that all too often have negative and far-reaching consequences. This informative video utilizes testimonials from students to examine the topic of adolescent peer pressure. It begins by focusing...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Designed to be a happy place of imagination and cooperation, a playground is too often a danger zone of intimidation and violence. This program explores the educational value and social dynamics of play while emphasizing the importance of a supportive adult presence in the playground environment. Games and techniques used by teachers and psychologists to help children develop interpersonal...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: To make a good impression in public, students must learn how to practice a variety of “community courtesies.” This video helps answer questions about etiquette for getting along in group situations. How do you act on public transportation, in a movie theater, in a restaurant, in a gym, at a laundromat, when shopping, or as a guest? Viewers will learn that small courtesies can add up to a big...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: Using a sensitive, real-world approach, this program assists teachers in understanding the process of counseling in high schools. It begins with a definition of counseling and goes on to explain the counseling process followed by a look at the variety of skills a counselor needs in order to work effectively with a young person. The program is also designed to assist teachers in understanding...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: This video provides basic lessons in netiquette with the help of a fun musical metaphor. Teens get a taste of ballroom dancing-and quickly realize that learning the steps of technology manners is like learning dance steps. By applying good manners to the Internet, cell phones, iPods, and other gadgets, students learn to keep in touch without losing the personal touch. Dynamic visuals and...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: Includes a discussion of physical and emotional changes adolescents go through and how they cope with family and peers, as well as the major life decisions they must make as they face the uncertain future ahead of them.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Teenagers face many decisions in high school: whether to go to college or to work; which college or career to choose; whether to get involved with drugs, drinking, or sex; what to wear to a party; whether to study or have fun. Some decisions are minor, others major; some easy, others hard. Despite these differences, all are decided using the same process. Many factors influence the final...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Initiate lectures and class dialogue with this cluster of ABC News segments on violence, aggressive behavior, and crime. In each scenario, actors draw unassuming spectators into tense and often disturbing situations-with a broad spectrum of results. Scenes include intense verbal bullying by three teen girls against one in a very public setting; a racially loaded incident in which three...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: This program is designed to help teens feel comfortable discussing issues surrounding the topic of peer pressure. Subjects covered include the positive effects of peer pressure; the negative effects of peer pressure; how to avoid negative peer pressure; where most peer pressure situations occur; and where to turn for help. After completing the program, students will have a better understanding...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: The development of authentic self-esteem and a healthy sense of self has always been a vitally important part of growing up. But this process is a challenge that has gotten even trickier to negotiate due to the widespread integration of digital technology into everyday living. Drawing on the insights of a clinical psychologist/family therapist, an adolescent psychologist, and a number of...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: A person normally wouldn't shout out the details of a secret hookup or give a credit card to a total stranger and say 'Max it out for me.' Yet as this video playfully points out, in effect that's what people do when they post indiscreetly on social networking sites or are duped by phishing scams. Think b4 u Post uses a light touch to deliver some very serious information on how people can...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: What harm could come from sitting leisurely at the computer, chatting with online pals? Unfortunately, many young people who spend hours in chat rooms or post sensitive information on the Internet have little or no idea of the risks involved. This program warns students about how vulnerable they are whenever they venture into the cyber realm-even when they think they're among "friends."...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: Mike talks with his mouth full, Emma makes weird noises, and Gwen dresses most peculiarly. Even worse, Greg will not share, Barry never smiles, and Chase acts like a bully. In an effort to help these socially challenged students learn to get along with their classmates at Fairfield Junior High, the staff of the school newspaper decides to do a story on social skills. This dramatization uses...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Emotional abuse, fits of jealousy, and the use of physical force have no place in a healthy romantic or friendly relationship. This enlightening program offers teenagers practical approaches to nurturing healthy behavior in themselves and in others. Experts offer guidelines for dealing with specific dating or friendship problems and for handling peer pressure, which often leads to poor choices...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Where would we be without friends? In this Telly Award-winning video, comedian Wes Halula and some students use humor to talk about a seriously important topic: friendships. It covers how to make them, how to nurture them, and, if the time should ever come, how to end them—in a positive way. Correlates to all applicable National and State Educational Standards including the NCLB Act.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: This program simplifies the complexities of decision-making by sorting out the various types of decisions: practical and principled, long-term and short-term, conscious and unconscious, and reversible and irreversible. The steps involved in making good decisions are also considered, as well as the importance of learning from mistakes. The bottom line? To err is human, but thoughtful...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Sometimes positive and sometimes negative, peer pressure is a powerful force for molding behavior. How does it work? This program investigates the dynamics of subtle, overt, and group peer pressure, along with approaches to resisting persuasion to do irresponsible or antisocial things. The importance of reality checks-"Is this what I really want?" "Is this who I am?"-is emphasized.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: The life of a high school student can be quite adventurous, whether it's happening in the hallways, on the school grounds, or in the classroom. What helps make the adventure of high school smooth and pleasant? Respectful manners. In this video, good manners guide students through the maze of classroom expectations, hallway behavior, lunchroom etiquette, bully prevention methods, and peer...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: Help students make a good impression with proper etiquette for special occasions. In this video, four high-school students seek the advice of a FACS educator and etiquette expert as they prepare for a formal dinner and dance. Topics include etiquette basics, seating, formal table setting, soup, bread, cutting, serving styles, seasoning, passing dishes, posture, dealing with nervousness,...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: Last year's Spring Fling at Jefferson High School was a total disaster-and this year's student committee doesn't want it to happen again! But can the group put aside the past and work together constructively to create a successful dance? This video uses scenario analysis to model four key conflict resolution strategies: taking the person out of the problem; focusing on issues, not egos; being...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: The importance of guidance programs for prisoners can’t be overstressed—they help society as well as the individual reentering it. Following young people who have been discharged from Rikers Island Academy, this program focuses on the payoffs that come from educational and counseling services for those behind bars. A lively peer-to-peer class setting is featured, while the process of...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Stanley, Bob
Summary: A renowned pop music scholar presents a dazzling biography of the Bee Gees--Barry, Maurice and Robin Gibb, which is an extraordinary human story of career highs and lows that shows, even in the Gibbs' darkest times, their music was rarely out of the charts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2024