Assessing Your Mental Health:

Suicide

  
TEACHER TIPS & TOOLS

 Unit:

  

Protecting Your Health

Focus:

  

Assessing Your Mental Health: Suicide

BCPS Health Indicators 3, 5, 10:

  

Assess situtations which may require professional attention to determine what school and/or community health services would best meet the needs of the situation and how to access those services

Evaluate the short- and long-term consequences of safe, risky, and harmful behaviors to determine and practice ways to avoid and reduce threatening situations and harmful relationships

Demonstrate refusal, negotiation, collaboration skills, and conflict resolution strategies to promote health and to avoid harmful siutations of self and others

BCPS
Library Media Indicators 9, 10, 11:

  

Use research skills in order to evaluate, select, record, and reorganize information
(MSDE LG-3)

Use reference skills in order to locate information in a variety of sources (LG-3)

Use critical thinking skills in order to solve research problems (LG-3)

MSDE Library Media VSC

 

2A
1. Match resources to topic of interest or need.
3A
1. Students will use print resources efficiently and effectively.
3. Students will use computer/online/digital resources efficiently and effectively.
7. Use appropriate graphic organizers or note cards to record relevant information. 
8. Use own words to capture concepts and avoid plagiarism.
5A
2. Apply critical thinking and problem solving strategies.

6A
1. Make decisions to facilitate effective communication of ideas.

 MSDE High School Skills for Success

 Step

 Module

 Research Activity

 One

 Questioning and Planning

Developing questions

Using graphic organizers

 Two

 Gathering/Sorting/Sifting

Using print and nonprint resources

  • Identifying and using appropriate resources

Using the Internet

  • Browser basics

Using other electronic resources

  • Electric Library

 Three

 Synthesis and Evaluation

Time to stop and
"take inventory"

Evaluating information

  • Which questions are well answered?
  • Which ones require further investigation?
  • Are there any new questions?

Four

Gathering/Sorting/ Sifting 2

Print and nonprint resources
The Internet
Other electronic resources

(See Step 2)

Five

 Final Synthesis and Evaluation

 Converting information into knowledge and insight

Six

 Presentation

Creating a trifold brochure to inform and responses for a panel discussion
Last update: July 15, 1999

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