Lesson 12- Wrapping Up Coping Power

Welcome back to the final video in our Coping Power Classroom video series. We are so grateful that your school partnered with us this year, and we hope that you continue to use the Coping Power program and see the value of these great new skills applied in your students’ lives every day.

Both the classroom lesson and small group session this week focus on celebrating all of the amazing learning that your students have been doing!

Your students are reviewing all of the content they’ve covered throughout the course. Remember, this includes:

·       Recognizing emotions and their intensity

·       Perspective Taking and Healthy Friendships

·       The PICC Model for breaking down and solving problems

·       Thought-Based Coping and Positive Self-Talk

·       Active Coping

·       Relaxation

·       Active Listening

· I-Messages

·       Bullying and How to Become an Upstander

·       Barriers to Coping and How to Overcome Those Barriers

For reminders on any of these topics, please feel free to review any of the previous videos or weekly “teacher nudges” for more information.

All of these skills tie into our four main program goals, which are to learn to manage strong emotions, to problem solve difficult situations, to build social communication skills, and to successfully navigate peer relationships and conflicts.

While the official Coping Power lessons are wrapping up, we hope you’ll continue finding opportunities throughout your school days to practice these valuable skills and strategies, and to continue discussing them with your students. After all, you spend as much time with these students as almost any other adults in their lives, and this makes you an incredibly important role model for your students.

This week’s challenge task provides a few suggestions for continuing to practice and encourage your students to use the Coping Power skills. Next time your students face a difficult situation, remind them of the coping tools they’ve learned, like active coping, thought coping, relaxation, and self-control. Maybe you can even provide a moment before or after a stressful event or activity for students to practice one of these strategies. You can also help them PICC apart a problem together, by identifying that problem, their choices in response to the problem, and the consequences each of those choices might have.

Lastly, we encourage you to continue building your students’ confidence by asking them about their own strengths and the areas where they've seen themselves grow during the Coping Power program. You can even encourage students to list strengths they’ve seen in others in the classroom. Just because the official lessons are ending, doesn’t mean that the wonderful community building and skill growth need to stop here!

Thanks again for your continued participation and support throughout the Coping Power program. We wish you and your students a fantastic school year!