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PLAY IS THE WAY® COMPLETE PROGRAM VOLUME 1 & 2 - $264.00 (Plus GST)
All you need to successfully use PLAY IS THE WAY® in your classroom or school.
The PLAY IS THE WAY® complete program Volume 1&2 is the culmination of over 20 years experience of teaching social and emotional learning. Condensed into 500 pages, this is a concise, student focused, and teacher friendly resource.
Social and emotional development at your fingertips in these two manuals that give you all the information you’ll need to improve the living and learning of children, using PLAY IS THE WAY®.
Think of Volume 1 as the vital organs of the program. The inner workings built around five central chapters that inform, support and sustain teachers.
VOLUME 1: The “who, what, where, when and why” of PLAY IS THE WAY®
The PLAY IS THE WAY® complete program Volume 1&2 is the culmination of over 20 years experience of teaching social and emotional learning. Condensed into 500 pages, this is a concise, student focused, and teacher friendly resource.
Social and emotional development at your fingertips in these two manuals that give you all the information you’ll need to improve the living and learning of children, using PLAY IS THE WAY®.
Think of Volume 1 as the vital organs of the program. The inner workings built around five central chapters that inform, support and sustain teachers.
VOLUME 1: The “who, what, where, when and why” of PLAY IS THE WAY®
- PREPARATION: Behaviour education using wisdom, not force.
- THE LANGUAGE: A simple precise way of talking that strengthens the educator/student relationship.
- SELF-REGULATION: The pathway to independent, self-motivated participation in learning and living.
- PROFESSIONAL LEARNING: Insightful articles that add depth to understanding and effectiveness to application.
- LIFE RAFT: Five key concepts and classroom activities that guide children in the building of a genuinely safe school community (includes 6, 8.5 x 11 posters).
- A year long timetabled program of games that immerses children in a wide variety of developmental experiences. And because the games can be played at increasing levels of difficulty and with challenging variations, the program can be a regular part of every student’s journey through school.
- These PLAY IS THE WAY® games come with detailed instructions, helpful hints and an issues and observations section that lifts each game into something far more than a game.
PLAY IS THE WAY® IMPLEMENTATION GUIDE - FREE
Please read our Implementation Guide to gain a deeper understanding of the Play Is The Way® implementation process.
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CHILDREN AREN'T MADE OF CHINA - $34.00 (Plus GST)
(Written for parents & teachers)
Easy to read, this book is not an academic thesis, but a practical guide for concerned parents and teachers with little time and much to do.
Children need resilience, perseverance and other life skills if they are to remain optimistic in the face of life’s daily challenges. This book contains the words and the way that have made PLAY IS THE WAY Founder Wilson McCaskill’s work so successful.
EXPECTED DELIVERY 7-14 DAYS
Easy to read, this book is not an academic thesis, but a practical guide for concerned parents and teachers with little time and much to do.
Children need resilience, perseverance and other life skills if they are to remain optimistic in the face of life’s daily challenges. This book contains the words and the way that have made PLAY IS THE WAY Founder Wilson McCaskill’s work so successful.
- Talking straight to children
- Guiding children towards effective self-management
- Encouraging honest self-assessment
- Raising children to be of strong character
- Tackling disruptive behaviour
- 175 pages x A5, paperback
EXPECTED DELIVERY 7-14 DAYS
LIFE RAFT MANUAL + 6 KEY CONCEPT POSTERS - $34.00 (Plus GST)
Used in conjunction with our the PLAY IS THEWAY® Key Concept Posters, this manual is a raft of activities and ideas to help raise considerate children.
The Play Is The Way philosophy revolves around the Self-Mastery Checklist and the following 5 key concepts:
1. Treat others as you would like them to treat you.
2. Be brave – Participate to progress.
3. Pursue your personal best no matter who you work with.
4. Have reasons for the things you say and do.
5. It takes great strength to be sensible.
This resource unpacks the concepts for students and teachers and therefore can be used as a reference point that assists children to reflect upon their behaviour.
Included with the manual are 6, 8.5 x 11 KEY CONCEPT POSTERS that read as follows:
Am I having a strong moment or a weak moment?
Am I being my own boss or am I inviting my teacher to be my boss?
Am I running away from the problem or am I dealing with it?
Is my teacher trying to help me or hurt me?
Are my feelings in charge of my actions or is my thinking in charge?
EXPECTED DELIVERY 7-14 DAYS
The Play Is The Way philosophy revolves around the Self-Mastery Checklist and the following 5 key concepts:
1. Treat others as you would like them to treat you.
2. Be brave – Participate to progress.
3. Pursue your personal best no matter who you work with.
4. Have reasons for the things you say and do.
5. It takes great strength to be sensible.
This resource unpacks the concepts for students and teachers and therefore can be used as a reference point that assists children to reflect upon their behaviour.
Included with the manual are 6, 8.5 x 11 KEY CONCEPT POSTERS that read as follows:
- If you don’t know why you’re doing something then don’t do it because it’s most likely wrong. HAVE REASONS FOR THE THINGS YOUSAY AND DO
- We don’t come to school to be better than others. We come to school to better ourselves by being able to work with others. PURSUE YOUR PERSONAL BEST NOMATTER WHO YOU WORK WITH
- We do the right thing because it’s the best thing to do. IT TAKES GREAT STRENGTH TO BE SENSIBLE
- School is about stepping bravely into the unknown. The unknown is often uncomfortable. The braver you are, the more you learn. BE BRAVE – PARTICIPATE TO PROGRESS
- If someone is unlike you, seek to understand them. TREAT OTHERS AS YOU WOULD LIKETHEM TO TREAT YOU
- SELF-MASTERY CHECKLIST: BE THE MASTER, NOT THE VICTIM OF YOUR FEELINGS
Am I having a strong moment or a weak moment?
Am I being my own boss or am I inviting my teacher to be my boss?
Am I running away from the problem or am I dealing with it?
Is my teacher trying to help me or hurt me?
Are my feelings in charge of my actions or is my thinking in charge?
EXPECTED DELIVERY 7-14 DAYS
CRITICAL MASS - $20.00 (Plus GST)
An intervention to help teachers struggling with a difficult classroom.
Think of your classroom. If you can label one third of the students as having very difficult to extremely difficult behaviours then this strategy will help.
“The more difficult or aberrant a child’s behaviour the greater their plea for help.”
Wilson McCaskill
Critical Mass is a long term strategy requiring commitment and planning by the classroom teacher. Although it is not a quick fix it can, if the teacher perseveres, create significant improvements within a matter of weeks.
82 x A5 pages spiral bound
EXPECTED DELIVERY 7-14 DAYS
Think of your classroom. If you can label one third of the students as having very difficult to extremely difficult behaviours then this strategy will help.
“The more difficult or aberrant a child’s behaviour the greater their plea for help.”
Wilson McCaskill
Critical Mass is a long term strategy requiring commitment and planning by the classroom teacher. Although it is not a quick fix it can, if the teacher perseveres, create significant improvements within a matter of weeks.
82 x A5 pages spiral bound
EXPECTED DELIVERY 7-14 DAYS
BY WISDOM NOT BY FORCE - $34.00 (Plus GST)
A book of quotes by PLAY IS THE WAY Founder Wilson McCaskill, to help guide children, teachers and parents.
BY WISDOM NOT BY FORCE, is a stimulating journey into the ideas, issues and insights that are of consequence to the teachers, parents and children of today.
Wilson McCaskill’s philosophy and experience is captured in 163 of his own succinct, relevant and effective maxims.
Maxims can be of great help to children. They say what needs to be said and nothing more. Used in classrooms and displayed on school walls they serve to guide behaviour and stimulate positive attitudes.
Once learnt in childhood they become mental notes for life. Maxims can be shared, exchanged, added to and created. They penetrate the dark of unease and indecisiveness and can be a welcome signpost when confusion abounds and clarity is in marked absence.
173 x A4 Pages (landscape) Spiral Bound
EXPECTED DELIVERY 7-14 DAYS
BY WISDOM NOT BY FORCE, is a stimulating journey into the ideas, issues and insights that are of consequence to the teachers, parents and children of today.
Wilson McCaskill’s philosophy and experience is captured in 163 of his own succinct, relevant and effective maxims.
Maxims can be of great help to children. They say what needs to be said and nothing more. Used in classrooms and displayed on school walls they serve to guide behaviour and stimulate positive attitudes.
Once learnt in childhood they become mental notes for life. Maxims can be shared, exchanged, added to and created. They penetrate the dark of unease and indecisiveness and can be a welcome signpost when confusion abounds and clarity is in marked absence.
173 x A4 Pages (landscape) Spiral Bound
EXPECTED DELIVERY 7-14 DAYS
BULLY STRATEGY BOOKLET + POSTER - $20.00 (Plus GST)
A PROACTIVE APPROACH TO BUILDING EMPATHY AND REDUCING BULLYING
“Someone who bullies has someone scared inside.”
The power of this poster for children lies in its disempowerment of those who bully.
It is our firm belief that the most effective means to address the problem of bullying in school communities is to work determinedly to nurture empathy.
If we accept that empathy is the ability to see things from another’s point of view and the ability to identify with the plight or state of another, then we can accept that an empathetic person has little likelihood of bullying.
The booklet will guide educators to develop the empathy of their students and shift the focus from punishment to contain and control those who bully, to educational processes that create the understanding to underpin self-motivated change.
Constructed to create an absorbing conversation about intentions, actions, reactions and reasons, this poster helps educators probe the complex issue of bullying with insight and honesty.
EXPECTED DELIVERY 7-14 DAYS
“Someone who bullies has someone scared inside.”
The power of this poster for children lies in its disempowerment of those who bully.
It is our firm belief that the most effective means to address the problem of bullying in school communities is to work determinedly to nurture empathy.
If we accept that empathy is the ability to see things from another’s point of view and the ability to identify with the plight or state of another, then we can accept that an empathetic person has little likelihood of bullying.
The booklet will guide educators to develop the empathy of their students and shift the focus from punishment to contain and control those who bully, to educational processes that create the understanding to underpin self-motivated change.
Constructed to create an absorbing conversation about intentions, actions, reactions and reasons, this poster helps educators probe the complex issue of bullying with insight and honesty.
EXPECTED DELIVERY 7-14 DAYS