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The role of the
Amanda Bezzina
History of the PSD Association
Formed February 2003First President: Mr. Kenneth Camilleri
PRESENT COMMITTEEPresident- Ms Amanda BezzinaVice-President- Mr Ryan PortelliSecretary- Ms Bernardette Azzopardi, Ms Tiziana
BugejaPRO- Ms Elysia AttardTreasurer- Ms Myriam Peresso, Dr Ruth FalzonMembers: Ms Maud Muscat, Ms Sarah Jane Pulis
and Ms Miriam Cristina
Aims
To safeguard the interests of the PSD TeachersTo disseminate information about current themes relevant to PSDTo act as a support group for all PSD Teachers To encourage activities dealing with PSDTo provide a website that can be used by PSD Teachers To have a resource centre for PSD Teachers
Main targets
Organizes meetings, conferences, discussions and other activities that interest PSD Teachers
Disseminates books, videos and software regarding PSDProduces material that can be used for PSD lessons
Socio-emotional learning
Conferences2009 -- “Entertainment or addiction... Where do youth cross the line?”
2010 -- “Should I say that? Sexual Health Related Issues”
2011 -- “The Media and I: Who is in control?”
2013 -- “Feel and Achieve. A training seminar on emotional literacy”
2014 – “Plan and succeed --- a training seminar for employability”
Conference – Emotional Literacy
Programme conference Workshop 1 Using Drama for Emotional Literacy
Workshop 2 Using Dance for Emotional Literacy
Workshop 3 Agenzija Zghazagh and Emotional Literacy
Workshop 4 Autism and Emotional Literacy
Workshop 5 Intellectual impairment and Emotional Literacy
Workshop 6 Creativity Media and Emotional Literacy
Workshop 7 Dyslexia and Emotional Literacy
Workshop 8 Kif il-kitba tgħinek tgħaraf lilek u lil oħrajn
Participation in NSCOPSE conferences
Articles in newspaper
Letter to the editor in reaction to the article ‘Mum, dad, can we talk about sex?’ on Friday, 17th July 2009
6th December 2010 - Times of Malta – PSD teachers hit back at lack of preparedness charge
20th March 2011 - Times of Malta - PSD Day at St Margaret College
Input in articles for the Times of Malta about PSD and promoting the PSD subject on TV stations – “Working as a teacher in Personal and Social Development Interview with Amanda Caruana (10th December 2012) and “Youngsters don’t realise inhalants are dangerous” (21st September 2012).
Input in articles on the Times of Malta about the importance of PSD – “PSD needs to be taken to further levels” (10th March 2013) and “Developing personal, social skills” (30th March 2013)
Times of Malta- 13 July 2013 - Pornification of the young generation
Times of Malta- 16 June 2013 (also cited be iNews) - Sex education and pornography in PSD
10 March 2012- For MPSDA website - Menstruation Education in Malta. Are our young maltese girls really prepared for this milestone?
Ongoing talks and training for teachers
Primary Self-Examination
Sexually Transmitted Infections
Next conference
The introduction of PSD at post-secondary and tertiary level
The aim of the research was to highlight the importance of PSD skills in the world of work, particularly when it comes to recruitment of an employee.
Quantitative Research analysing the importance of PSD Skills in employment recruitment
Members of the MPSDA gathered data from 154 job advertisements that were published in two issues of the weekly newspaper The Sunday Times of Malta dated the 22nd June 2014 and the 29th June 2014.
Data Gathering
Out of 154 advertisements, 122 of them included PSD skills requisites (79.2%)
1. PSD Skills Requirements
Figure 1: Pie chart illustrating the percentage results of advertisements requesting PSD skills against those that
did not request any of such skills
The following is a bar chart illustrating the frequency of PSD skills requisites mentioned in the examined advertisements.
2. Number of PSD Skills Required
Figure 2: Bar Chart illustrating the number of advertisements against the number of listed soft skills
The number of skill requirements found in all the 154 advertisements added up to 833 skills. 449 of these were soft skill requisites against 384 hard skills.
3. Soft vs Hard Skills
Figure 3: Pie chart illustrating the percentage result of the total number of requested soft skills against that of the requested hard skills
41 different PSD skills were identified across the 154 advertisements. The 10 most popular PSD skills requested in various employment sectors are presented in the bar chart below:
4. Popular PSD Skills
Figure 4: Bar chart illustrating the number of job advertisements that listed each of the ten most required PSD skills as a job requirement
Other soft skills and personal qualities that were often listed as a requisite for emplyment included :
Problem – Solving (16)
Creativity Skills (14)
Flexibility (12)
Integrity (10)
Analytic Thinking (10)
Hard-working (9)
Willing to Learn (9)
Positive Attitude (8)
Presentation Skills (7)
Strategic Thinking and Planning (7)
Ambitious (6)
Leadership Skills (6)
The numbers in the brackets indicate the number of adverts that particular soft skill was listed in
European PSD Association
Couple cardsWorking with Relationship are Forever Foundation.
Resolving differences by using cards that:
1. express feelings (Blue cards)
2. discuss the differences by presenting
the good (Green cards) and bad
moves (Violet cards)
3. settle the discussion by considering making up cards (Yellow cards)
Relationship Cards
• Working with the PSD Educational Officers and the Commissioner for Children.
• Relationship cards for primary and secondary school students.
Video Production
Production of a video on PSD found online at The Zone within the Times of Malta website.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20121210/thezone-careers/working-as-a-teacher-in-personal-and-social-development.449020
Contact Information
E mail address: Facebook page: Malta PSD Association