This is an essential resource for supporting the SEAL framework in secondary schools and for all those teaching 11-16 year olds. It contains everything you need to create truly independent learners, confident and resilient in their ability to learn and learn well. The book contains 50 lessons to teach 50 competencies. Each has teacher's notes on leading the lesson and a CD-ROM in the back of the book has all the student forms and worksheets necessary for the lessons. Lessons include:

• getting to know yourself
• taking responsibility for your own life
• persistence and resilience
• setting goals for life
• controlling moods
• caring for your mind and body
• building brain power
• asking questions
• developing willpower
• pushing yourself out of your comfort zone
• prioritising and planning

Possessing these vital competencies will help students learn better and be able to contribute more effectively in school. It will also enable them to thrive in the increasingly fast-paced world of the 21st century.

Click here for the related workbook title The Learner's Toolkit Student Workbook 1.

Click here for the related workbook title The Learner's Toolkit Student Workbook 2.