Self-Awareness 101: Self-Management Skills for Emotional and Social Wellbeing

------ About Us ------ 


😊Welcome to Shiminly! Our name, ‘Shimin’ is Japanese for ‘citizen’. Our mission is to give learners the tools they need to become Global Citizens of the 21st Century. 🌍 We are dedicated to imbuing our students with the skills and tools they need to become empathetic, resilient, and well-rounded individuals. 🌟 

Our facilitators are highly experienced, well-traveled, and trained to deliver our lessons using modern teaching methodologies, such as: 

🧔 Socratic Method  

💭 Inquiry-Based  

🛠️ Problem-Based 

✅ Task-Based 

📚 Project-Based  

 

------ Our Core Skills ------ 


We have built our curriculum around 7 Core Skills, which are: 

💞 Emotional Intelligence 

🧘‍♀️ Self-Awareness and Adaptability 

🗣️ Teamwork and Communication 

🌍 Global Citizenship 

💡Creativity and Innovation 

🧠 Critical Thinking 

🌠 Motivation and Exploration 

 

------ About This Course ------ 
 

Lesson 1: Take Care of Yourself 💖 

🎯 Explore the importance of self-care related to health, hygiene, school, relationships, personal admin, and leisure  

🎯 Learn self-care strategies and ways to implement them  

🎯 Create and complete a customized self-care questionnaire and share it with peers 


Lesson 2: Demoralization 🌠 

🎯 Explore and discuss common causes of demoralization and how they might appear 

🎯 Learn and practice coping strategies for demoralization 

🎯 Create an action plan based on a set of challenging hypothetical scenarios  

 
Lesson 3: Managing Emotions ⚖️ 

🎯 Explore vocabulary related to identifying nuanced emotions and their causes 

🎯 Learn and practice some strategies and processes for self-soothing and regulating emotions 

🎯 Create and present a dialogue that demonstrates how to deal with a difficult situation in an emotionally mature way 


Lesson 4: Being a Responsible Friend and Student 🫂 

🎯 Learn the basics and nuances of showing respect to friends, classmates, and teachers 

🎯 Explore case studies and practice strategies for maximizing the academic and social aspects of school life 

🎯 Create and present a skit demonstrating responsible behavior  


Lesson 5: Stereotypes 🌈 

🎯 Learn about kinds of stereotypes related to appearance, ethnicity, nationality, gender, religion, and profession 

🎯 Discuss the direct and indirect consequences of stereotypes  

🎯 Explore and practice strategies for breaking stereotypes  

 
Lesson 6: Saying Sorry 💐 

🎯 Read and discuss examples of ‘non-apologies’ and their potential consequences  

🎯 Learn and practice some strategies and vocabulary for delivering a sincere and meaningful apology  

🎯 Create examples of good and bad apologies based on various hypothetical scenarios  

 
Lesson 7: Our Attention 🧠 

🎯 Learn about the main types of attention and their importance in different everyday scenarios, such as sustained, selective, divided, and alternating 

🎯 Explore tips for focusing during sustained, challenging, or important periods 

🎯 Reflect on their strengths and weaknesses when it comes to attention and some tips that can be implemented in the future 


Lesson 8: Mind Your Concentration 🧐 

🎯 Learn about factors that hinder concentration, such as diet, hunger, dehydration, sleep, lack of exercise, and stress 

🎯 Explore and practice some useful mindfulness techniques that can improve focus 

🎯 Create a poster aimed at helping other students improve their concentration 


Lesson 9: Time Management ⌚ 

🎯 Learn about some common factors that can impede effective use of time 

🎯 Explore and practice implementing some tools and strategies that will help with time management 

🎯 Create their own to-do list and apply what they have learned to organize and prioritize their time best 


 
------ Class Structure and Materials ------ 

 
Each of our lessons is separated into distinct sections: 

1️⃣ After being welcomed to the class, learners will be introduced to the topic through a game or warm up activity. They will then have their existing knowledge on the topic tested with various inquiry-based questioning techniques. (5-10 minutes) 

2️⃣ Then, our facilitators will present them with pertinent information on the topic and the main class task (10-15 minutes).  

3️⃣ The facilitator will then present the main task, which will predominantly be student-led. During this time, students will be creating, innovating, or solving a problem while the facilitator guides them (20-25 minutes).  

4️⃣ Learners will then have the opportunity to present their class work. They will give and receive feedback from each other as well as from the facilitator (10 minutes).  

5️⃣ Before finishing the class, learners will complete a short Exit Ticket to solidify their takeaways from the class experience (5 minutes). 
 
The facilitator will share all of our content built on Canvas LMS. We use this for display purposes only and learners are not required to create an account. To make our content engaging, we diversify our delivery methods as much as possible. Our content includes static slides with text and images built on Microsoft Powerpoint, educational videos from YouTube, online games built on platforms such as Wordwall and Baamboozle, and interactive builds developed on Articulate Storyline. Our content is well-researched and referenced in every lesson, as it is all strictly factual, objective, and secular. We only use images and YouTube videos that fall under the Creative Commons license. Each of our lessons is also matched with a selection of Common Core and CPalms standards and is inspired by a variety of UNESCO key topics.