This Teacher's Manual accompanies My Guide Inside Learner Book III under separate title. My Guide Inside(R) Secondary Curriculum is a series of story-based lessons carefully crafted to teach learners about their natural inner wisdom, or their "guide inside." This resource offers a hopeful, simple way for us to gain new understanding about how we operate from the inside out. Designed to maximize personal well-being and improve school climate, behavior and learner performance, chapters such as "Flawsome and Fun," "Understanding the Lost Thinker" and "Making Room for Happiness" provide vocabulary building, reflective journaling, and a variety of engaging writing and creative activities to help draw out teens' awareness of their own inner wisdom. The authors designed the curriculum to be inclusive of all learners, meet official learning objectives and student competency standards, including English Language Arts, Career Education, Health Education, Communication, Thinking, Personal and Social Awareness and Responsibility. Universal principles are introduced, making this curriculum for global use with all learners. In addition, curriculum guidelines from Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States are referenced. We naturally experience our wisdom and show resilience when given a hint about how life works. This curriculum promotes the above discovery process and encourages happiness and success as teens mature from childhood into adulthood. My Guide Inside(R) is a three-part comprehensive Pre-K-12 story-based curriculum covering developmentally appropriate topics in an ongoing process of learning throughout the entire school career. As a teacher, you choose the level of My Guide Inside that is just right for your students in your particular school system: Book I (introduction, primary), Book II (continuation, intermediate) and Book III (advanced, secondary). With this comprehensive curriculum, school leaders will be able to chart a continuous instructional plan to share the principles with students as they move through the grades. Supplemental picture book also available: Whooo ... Has a Guide Inside? See myguideinside.com for information on e-books, online resources, video on demand for each chapter, translations and more. www.myguideinside.com
About the Author: Christa Campsall is a pioneer in bringing Three Principles to K-12 education. Since 1975, this has been the foundation of her work as classroom teacher, special education teacher and teacher-leader. Christa was certified by Sydney Banks to teach the Three Principles. Christa has a BEd and a DiplSpEd from University of British Columbia and a MA from Royal Roads University. She and her husband live on Salt Spring Island.
Kathy Marshall Emerson, National Resilience Resource Center director, facilitates principles training and systems change in schools. Her "Educators Living in the Joy of Gratitude" webinars document the impact of educators sharing the principles for as much as 40 years in classrooms, school systems and student services. She has a MA from the University of Southern California and is adjunct faculty at the University of Minnesota.
