This presentation provides information for students transitioning in school between grade levels. It also discusses third culture kid transition issues, for moving and settling into a new school.

1. Times Are A Changing Strategies for Transitions and Moving Jen Hammonds and Katelyn Kearney

3. Learning how to manage change is a skill necessary for healthy living

4. Understanding the stages and emotions associated with change helps to prepare you for adapting positively

6. What are healthy and unhealthy strategies for coping with change?

7. What are family strategies for adapting to change? What information is helpful for transitioning effectively?

9. Activity Time

10. Feeling Like a Fish Out of Water

12. What did you learn about yourself? What did you learn about how living overseas impacts a child?

13. What questions does the video raise about identity development? Who am I? Where am I from? Home? Restlessness? Roots?

20. Table Talk and Take-Aways

22. Footsteps Around the World: Relocation Tips for Teens by Beverly D. Roman

23. Raising Global Nomads by Robin Pascoe

24. Multicultural Manners by Norine Dresser

25. A Woman’s Guide to Maintaining a Sense of Self While Moving Overseas by Debra R. Bryson and Charise M. Hoge

26. Slurping Soup and Other Confusions http://www.slurpingsoup.com/

27. TCKid, The Third Culture Kid Community http://tckid.com

28. Families in Global Transition http://www.figt.org

29. Cross Cultural Kid http://www.crossculturalkid.org/

30. Third Culture Adults in Global Transition http://pmbethel.blogs.com/3culture/