In what ways can educators help adolescents acquire life skills?

      

Explain ways in which educators can help adolescents acquire life skills.

  

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Maurice
(i) Monitoring adolescents behaviurs.
Educators can watch/ track/ check adolescents behaviour so as to help them make right choices/ recognize wrong choices/ gain back of their lives.

(ii) Guiding/ counseling.
Educators can organize talks/ lecturers where they talk to adolescents about the importance of life skills.

(iii) Motivation.
Educators can reinforce/ give rewards to adolescents who display appropriate life skills.

(iv) Drama/ role play/ proverbs/ riddles/ stories.
Plays/ drama with life skills messages can be organized for the adolescents to take part in/ watch so they can learn from these.

(v) Providing appropriate curriculum syllabus.
Curriculum/ syllabus that address life skills should be provided to adolescents to give them the opportunity to make real life applications of knowledge/ skills/ attitudes.

(vi) Being role models.
Educators/ mass media should be role models from adolescents can learn life skills by observing/ imitating them.

(vii) Providing exercises/ situations for adolescents to practice safe behaviour.
Educators should continuously provide opportunities/ field trips for adolescents to experience the effects of safe behaviour.
maurice.mutuku answered the question on August 18, 2017 at 11:44


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