NCJ Number
231974
Date Published
2000
Length
32 pages
Annotation
This is an educator's resource guide for teaching a classroom of students the consequences of drug use and other destructive behaviors, the physical effects of drug abuse, the building of self-esteem for resistance to negative peer pressure, and the identification of positive role models.
Abstract
The curriculum features an innovative teaching technique called "connected teaching," which integrates positive lifestyle messages into existing subject-area curriculum, using commercial-free cable programming to provide the real-life connections. In presenting this teaching technique to educators in the resource guide, it uses a video of four teachers using the "connected teaching" technique in presenting the curriculum. The teachers were recruited from widely different school environments to integrate the curriculum into classroom subject areas as diverse as anatomy and world history. In the course of presenting curriculum material in the guide, readers are urged to watch the lesson video to view the "seamless and artful way these teachers wove positive-choice messages into their lessons." The resource guide is organized into four modules. For each module, its message is stated, and the title of the cable television program accompanying the module is given. Information is provided on the cable program, and attention is drawn to how the model teacher in the lesson video integrated the module's message into the teacher's regular subject material. Each module also suggests other classroom activities that can be used to integrate module learning objectives into the regular classroom curriculum. Annotated resources are listed for each of the four modules.