Why do we need Personal

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Why do we need Personal Social Development?
PSD is a planned programme of learning
opportunities and experiences that help children
and young people grow and develop as individuals
Rachel Bajada Samuel M. Cutajar Juniper
Francalanza Audrey Spiteri
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PSD education provides opportunities to address
real life and topical issues

• promote children and young peoples wellbeing
• promote community cohesion
• provide careers education and sex education
• pupils to play an active part in decision making

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Enjoy and Achieve
In order that they can
Which makes it more likely that they will
Stay safe
Make a positive contribution
Every child Matters
Will learn to
Which is essential if they are to
And has the right to
Be healthy
Achieve economic well being
Which will help them to
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Children dont cut their lives up into bits- it
is one single experience. Every child matters is
one single process that drives the curriculum.
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The promotion of young peoples personal
development

• How is PSD education provided in schools?
• learning opportunities across the curriculum
• explicit opportunities in other curriculum
  subjects
• information, support and guidance on specific
  areas of learning and development
• learning through involvement in the life of the
  school and wider community  

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Lifeskills

• What are life skills?
• The skills necessary for successful living.
• Why are they more important than ever before?
• Life-Long Learning
• Era of over choice
• Era of growing Interdependence

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Hopson Scallys 4 types of skills

• My skills skills I need to survive and grow
  generally
• Me and you skills skills I need to relate
  effectively to you.
• Me and others skills I need to relate
  effectively to others.
• Me and skills in specific situation.

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Conclusion

• Adolescence is a period of major changes, which
  are not only physical but also cognitive,
  emotional and moral.
• These are all very important aspects, which need
  to be taken into consideration in secondary
  schools.
• These needs are specifically being catered by the
  subject of PSD which makes it important for the
  growth and self empowerment of the student.

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Do you best perceive PSD as a subject which is

• A Problem Solver?
• Life-Skills oriented?
• Academic?
• Task oriented?
• Extra curricular?

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(a) Problem Solver?

• Although several types of problems are
  discussed in PSD sessions, the aim behind this
  subject is not to solve difficulties in our life,
  but to make them an enriching learning experience

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(B) Life-Skills Oriented?

• Thats right!! PSD aims to equip each
  student with the necessary life skills for coping
  with different kinds of situations that our life
  offers

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(C) Academic?

• PSD is all but an academic subject!

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(D) Task Oriented?

• PSD focuses on the emotions rather than on
  specific tasks...

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(E) Extra Curricular?

• Actually, PSD follows a curriculum... However
  this subject is not assessed through formal
  examinations