Life Skills Learning and Teaching

The terms "life skills" and "life skills education" have been variously defined and this has caused some confusion about what life skills are and what life skills education can achieve. In part, the problem arises because there is no definitive, numbered set of what anyone using the term means by life skills. Life skills learning and teaching: Principles, concepts, and standards is intended both as revised programme guidance and as an expression of UNICEF's continued commitment to the right of all children and adolescents to quality life skills education. The document covers key elements of common understanding, new evidence of what life skills education can achieve, how life skills education needs to be planned and implemented in order to achieve results, and finally how learning outcomes could be assessed and monitored. Includes benchmarks.