Making and Molding the Future Me: Preparing for the successful transition into adulthood (A k-12 program)

By Momi Robins-Makaila

Making and Molding the Future ME is a set of workbooks with optional, accompanying videos per activity for students K-12 and beyond. It focuses on developing social-emotional wellness and preparing students for the one-day transition into adulthood and the workforce--a significant purpose of the K-12 experience. Many students need to realize that their K-12 education is preparing them for life as adults. Many start to think about the transition just a few months before graduation. Poor transition planning and a failure to consistently focus on social-emotional development leave students ill-prepared for such a vital transition and all the little transitions that happen along the journey. Students need help finding the strategies to overcome common barriers that life presents for everyone. Through repeated, consistent, and explicit discussion and attention to self-awareness and social-emotional wellness embedded into the subject of transition planning, Making and Molding the Future ME helps students increase their self-awareness of personal preferences, interests, needs and strengths (PINS) and plan purposefully for their futures and the barriers that await them, waiting to be broken down. Through each book in each year of their K-12 experience, children take the opportunity to investigate their social-emotional development and PINS and how they change and evolve. They engage in the exploration process of career possibilities and make deliberate choices for their lives. They challenge negative thoughts and overwhelm them with the positive; they uncover and unlock their limitless potential! This invaluable resource is the by-product of a multi-decade-long public education servant in an education system burdened with excessive normed referenced assessments, too much content to teach, insufficient time, and the unpredictable swings of government administrations. Reading, Writing, Math, and Science are a primary focus of many educational systems, leaving social-emotional wellness and planning for change an afterthought despite the mental health and financial challenges for many people worldwide. Social Emotional Learning is a process whereby, during one's lifetime, an individual learns self-awareness, self-control, and other social and emotional skills necessary for developing and maintaining healthy interpersonal relationships. Acting on emotions like fear, shame, guilt, and jealousy have a profound impact on learning and can inhibit individuals from building a healthy self-image, attaining healthy relationships, achieving goals, admitting to things they don't know, taking risks, and living up to their fullest potential, which is why social-emotional control and development is a focus of this program. Transition planning takes cooperation among many stakeholders, real-world-guided investigations of PINS, authentic experiences in the workforce, meaningful discussions of learning and challenges, and application of well-thought-out strategies to address barriers and emotions. Each resource must tackle it, but this resource will provide the much-needed guidance for the most effective activities. Education departments are recognizing their deficits (some may say failures) to prepare students appropriately in these areas. However, more needs to be done, and teachers are still trying to figure out how and when to teach social-emotional wellness and can barely fit transition planning into their six-hour school days. This resource provides a solution for many teachers' and parents' needs. Thank you for considering this tool to support your child live their best lives! Visit www.momilani.com on our K-12 workbook page for more information, or give us a call at 808-888-9434 for bulk purchases.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0CW3M6895
• ISBN13: 9798880195541
• Release Date: February 2024
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 83 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.0" x 0.2" x 8.5"