Open Water and Safe Harbors: An Intergenerational Life Skills Curriculum. A Teacher's Guide

摘要

The document is an intergenerational curriculum designed to teach that personal happiness, life satisfaction and economic well-being in later years are the products of personal aspiration, good decision-making skills, continuous development of abilities and talents, and sustained personal efforts. The curriculum, developed as part of a grant funded by the Administration on Aging to the Maine Committee on Aging, grew out of a recognition that significant numbers of young people lacked the knowledge that life planning skills are necessary to make sound decisions in their lives and that decisions made in their teens affect their options in later life. The curriculum consists of five video tapes; an eleven-minute introductory tape and four special focus tapes each about twenty minutes in length, and a teacher's guide with supplemental support materials.