Too
Good for Drugs & Violence—High School
Too Good for Drugs & Violence —
High School is a comprehensive prevention education program
for grades 9-12 designed to equip students with the knowledge, skills
and attitudes they need to remain safe and drug free. This program
combines components of Too Good for Violence
K–8 and Too Good for Drugs
K–8 in an innovative approach that allows high school
students and schools to meet both prevention and academic needs.
Too Good for Drugs & Violence —
High School is comprised of three major components:
Too Good for Drugs and Violence—High
School Core Curriculum
- promotes bonding
- develops positive life skills
- establishes positive, violence- and drug-free norms
- completes a consistent, comprehensive K–12 prevention
plan
The core curriculum
for students includes the following fourteen, 60-minute lessons:
- Goal Setting
- Decision Making
- Respect for Self and Others
- Assertiveness
- Communication
- Conflict Resolution
- Managing Emotions
- Bonding and Relationships
- Tobacco
- Alcohol
- Marijuana
- Addiction
- Maximizing Life, Minimizing Stress
- Staying Safe and Drug Free
This program can be easily implemented as part of a health curriculum.
Too Good for Drugs and Violence --
Staff Development
This
10-lesson, interactive curriculum is specifically designed to complete the prevention message through the development of a positive school climate.
This program energizes and inspires teachers, counselors and other
instructors to maximize their effectiveness in the classroom and to create a classroom
climate which reduces risk factors, builds protective factors and
supports resiliency. The sessions are as follows:
- Welcome and Introduction: Risk, Protection and Resiliency
- Bonding
- Meaningful Participation
- Caring and Support
- High Expectations
- Skills for Communication
- Skills for Handling Anger and Conflict
- Skills for Decision Making
- Norms
- Creating a Healthy School Climate
Too Good for Drugs and Violence—High
School Infusion Lessons
Too Good for Drugs and Violence—High School infusion
lessons is comprised of lessons incorporating and reinforcing skills
taught in the core curriculum through academic infusion in subject
areas such as English, Social Studies, and Science/Health. In addition
to personal skills, social skills and drug resistance skills, Too
Good for Drugs and Violence—High School teaches drug information.
Each infusion lesson lists prevention objectives and objectives
based on national standards. The lessons are as follows.
The sessions are as follows:
- English - Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken"
- English - Leadership: Beowulf & Schwarzkopf
- English - George Orwell's "Shooting an Elephant
- English - The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
- Science/Health - Reducing the Risk of Acquaintance Rape: Part
1
- Science/Health - Reducing the Risk of Acquaintance Rape: Part
2
- Science/Health - Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
- Science/Health - The Cell Membrane & the Effects of Marijuana
- Science/Health - Aids
- Social Studies - The Balancing Act: Roles Families Play
- Social Studies - Stress and Coping: The Vietnam War
- Social Studies - The Hippie Counterculture of the 1960's
Normative education is an important element of the program. Normative
education addresses the influence of passive social pressure and
social modeling; it corrects common misperceptions among teens about
the prevalence and acceptability of drug use and focuses on establishing
a positive climate free of drugs and violence.
The high school program provides a comprehensive approach to prevention
education by training teachers in the same skills the students are
using. This provides the opportunity to develop a consistent approach
to prevention and to create a safe environment both physically and
emotionally.
For complete, comprehensive drug and violence prevention programming,
use Too Good for Drugs (K-8) and
Too Good for Violence (K-8) for
students in grades K-8 students and Too
Good for Drugs & Violence—High School for students
in grades 9-12. |
