What Is
Overcoming Obstacles?
Overcoming Obstacles is a free, award-winning, and research-based K-12 curriculum that provides you with the tools to teach your students life skills. With hundreds of activity-based lessons covering more than 30 skills, students learn how to communicate effectively. They learn how to make informed decisions. They learn how to set and achieve goals, resolve conflicts, solve problems, respect one another, and more.
Since 1992, over 780,000 educators in all 50 states and in 198 countries and territories have used Overcoming Obstacles’ free lessons to improve the lives of more than 177 million young people.
What is Overcoming Obstacles?
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What is Overcoming Obstacles?
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What is Overcoming Obstacles?
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What is Overcoming Obstacles?
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OVERCOMING OBSTACLES DIGITAL LIBRARY
The Overcoming Obstacles Digital Library is the online hub where you can view, download, and customize all our award-winning K-12 resources for free. Click on the button labeled “Enter Library” for instant access to everything we publish, including curricula, student surveys, training guides, translations, and more. No registration or any personal information required – you can start teaching Overcoming Obstacles today!
Lesson Breakdown
Setting Expectations
Each lesson begins with an agenda, objectives, and a list of required materials. The goals are clearly stated in the objectives which helps you establish what the expectations are for the lesson and what your students can hope to learn.
Introducing the Skill
The starter of each lesson provides you with a quick definition that is usually designed around a brief activity or anecdote to focus your students’ attention on the skill being introduced.
Setting Expectations
Each lesson begins with an agenda, objectives, and a list of required materials. The goals are clearly stated in the objectives which helps you establish what the expectations are for the lesson and what your students can hope to learn.
Introducing the Skill
The starter of each lesson provides you with a quick definition that is usually designed around a brief activity or anecdote to focus your students’ attention on the skill being introduced.
Setting Expectations
Each lesson begins with an agenda, objectives, and a list of required materials. The goals are clearly stated in the objectives which helps you establish what the expectations are for the lesson and what your students can hope to learn.
Lessons also feature extensions, giving you additional opportunities to further develop each skill. Your students will analyze quotations, conduct research, develop technology skills, write journal entries, and work on additional projects.
90 Day Healing Course
“My Overcoming Obstacles” is our unique online platform that gives you the ability to truly make Overcoming Obstacles your own. With our easy-to-use tools, you can customize every part of an Overcoming Obstacles lesson, down to each word.
Maybe you want to change a starter activity, so it ties into something unique about your school? Or perhaps you want to take one of our decision making lessons and align it with an historical event that your students are learning? Whatever you need, “My Overcoming Obstacles” is here for you to use however and whenever you want. It’s simple, intuitive, and—like all of our other resources—100% free.