LIFE SKILLS CURRICULUM TRAINING
The Life Skills Program was designed as a course for future orphanage graduates. Its purpose is to supply the youth with knowledge, tools and skills needed for their independent living and successful integration into society. Originally it was created to be taught on the orphanage grounds but can be adapted for other facilities and conditions.
Program description
The program consists of 10 modules. Each of the modules has 4 to 7 lessons totaling up to 48 90?minutes lessons. There were both Teacher’s and Student’s Manuals developed. The module topics include:
- Identity (who am I and how can I develop each part of my personality)
- Social Skills (how to relate to others, manage conflicts and use good manners)
- Health and Hygiene (nutrition, hygiene, bad habits, first aid)
- Love and Sex (respect in friendship and girls/boys relationships, the purpose of sexual relationships and their possible consequences)
- Gift of Marriage (things to consider before you agree to get married, way to express love and deal with disagreements in marriage)
- Raising Children (how to create a family, be a positive parent and know child’s needs, dermatogens)
- Homemaking (food shopping and cooking, taking care of your home and clothing, hospitality)
- Time and Money Management (what life costs and how to budget; how to manage time)
- Job Skills (profession orientation, how to find and keep a job, the risk of human trafficking)
- Legal Rights (human rights, orphan’s rights, law and the consequences of its breaking).
Though the program teaches children practical skills its teaching is based on Christian worldview and values.
The program is distributed at the Life Skills trainings. The training has a purpose to help the future teachers to understand the main teaching principles of the program and to equip them for more effective work with the program’s target group.
