Tools for Teaching Social Skills in Schools

Author: Michele Hensley
Publisher: Boys Town Press
ISBN: 1889322644
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 306

Book Description
This book targets 28 social skills including following instructions, staying on task, working with others, accepting criticism, listening, ignoring distractions, making a good choice, sharing, and showing respect. It includes lesson plans, reproducible skill pages, techniques and examples for 'blending' the teaching of social skills into academic lessons, ideas for using bulletin board displays to motivate and monitor behaviour, and strategies for increasing parental support.

Teaching Social Skills to Students with Visual Impairments

Author: Sharon Sacks
Publisher: American Foundation for the Blind
ISBN: 9780891288824
Category : Blind children
Languages : en
Pages : 548

Book Description
"This book expands upon the knowledge base and provides a compendium of intervention strategies to support and enhance the acquisition of social skills and children and youths with visual impairments ... Part 1 ... addresses social skills from a first-person perspective. The second part ... examines how theory seeks to explain social development and influences assessment and practice ... Part 3, ties personal perspectives and theory to actual practice. Finally, Part 4 ... offers numerous examples and models for teaching social skills to students who are blind or visually impaired, including those with additional disabling conditions."--Introduction.

More Tools for Teaching Social Skills in School

Author: Midge Odermann Mougey
Publisher: Boys Town Press
ISBN: 9781934490044
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 302

Book Description
Social skills include: expressing empathy, going to an assembly, accepting defeat or loss, using anger-control strategies, responding to inappropriate talk/touch, completing homework, being prepared for class, accepting winning appropriately, and more.

Create a Culture of Kindness in Middle School

Author: Naomi Drew
Publisher: Free Spirit Publishing
ISBN: 1631981609
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 273

Book Description
Practical, research-based lessons for middle school educators to teach students pro-social attitudes and behaviors to prevent bullying. Create a Culture of Kindness in Middle School focuses on positive and pro-social attitudes and behaviors that build a respectful and compassionate school environment, while also addressing the tough issues of prejudice, anger, exclusion, and bullying. Through role-playing, perspective-taking, sharing, writing, discussion, and more, students develop the insights and skills they need to accept differences, resolve conflicts peacefully, stop bullying among peers, and create a community of kindness in their classrooms and school. Based on survey data gathered by the authors from more than 1,000 students, the book’s research-based lessons are easy to implement and developmentally appropriate. Digital content includes student handouts from the book.

Teaching Social Skills to Youth with Mental Health Disorders

Author: Jennifer Resetar Volz
Publisher: Boys Town Press
ISBN: 1934490105
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 194

Book Description
Research and experience show that children and adolescents who struggle with emotional, behavioral and social problems do improve when they learn prosocial skills. Social skill instruction, therefore, can be a vital component in the treatment planning for a child diagnosed with a mental health disorder. Teaching Social Skills to Youth with Mental Health Disorders is a guide for therapists, counselors, psychologists, educators, and other practitioners trying to help these youth get better.

The Tough Kid Social Skills Book

Author: Susan M. Sheridan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781570350511
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 228

Book Description
Focuses on teaching social skills to the student who displays excesses in noncompliance and aggression and deficits in self-management.

Tools of the Mind

Author: Elena Bodrova
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040005438
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 283

Book Description
Now in its third edition, this classic text remains the seminal resource for in-depth information about major concepts and principles of the cultural-historical theory developed by Lev Vygotsky, his students, and colleagues, as well as three generations of neo-Vygotskian scholars in Russia and the West. Featuring two new chapters on brain development and scaffolding in the zone of proximal development, as well as additional content on technology, dual language learners, and students with disabilities, this new edition provides the latest research evidence supporting the basics of the cultural-historical approach alongside Vygotskian-based practical implications. With concrete explanations and strategies on how to scaffold young children’s learning and development, this book is essential reading for students of early childhood theory and development.

The Power of Peers in the Classroom

Author: Karen R. Harris
Publisher: Guilford Publications
ISBN: 146252107X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 337

Book Description
Peer support and social relationships have a tremendous influence on development, motivation, and achievement for all students, including struggling learners and those with disabilities. This highly practical book is one of the few resources available to guide classroom teachers and special educators in the application of peer-assisted instructional strategies in grades K-12. Expert contributors describe evidence-based approaches for building students' skills in reading, writing, math, and other content areas, as well as social competence and executive functioning. Sample lessons and more than a dozen reproducible tools are provided. Purchasers get access to a Web page where they can download and print the reproducible materials.

Preventing Problem Behaviors

Author: Bob Algozzine
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1632209799
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 430

Book Description
In today's increasingly diverse PreK–12 classrooms, problem behaviors can often interrupt instructional time and disrupt learning. Designed for 21st-century school leaders, administrators, behavior specialists, and classroom teachers, this research-based guide offers specific strategies and plans for preventing problem behavior at both the classroom and school level. Based on the premise that early response to problems can lead to better outcomes for students, the book's content is framed around four essential areas: foundations, intervention, collaboration, and evaluation. Within these areas, this accessible guide features: -The latest information on the science and practice of prevention -Reasons why conflict resolution, peer mediation, and bully-proofing are essential to prevention -Effective practices for teaching social skills to young children -Proven techniques for implementing schoolwide positive behavior support -Tools for using individual behavior plans to prevent problems -Ideas for home-school and community partnerships and culturally responsible teaching -Critical strategies for monitoring student progress and evaluating prevention practices -New, updated chapters, including information on preschool behavior support and RTI This valuable resource provides all the tools and strategies school leaders and teachers need to keep children focused on learning.

Basic Social Skills for Youth

Author: Boys Town Press
Publisher: Boys Town Press
ISBN: 9780938510390
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 52

Book Description
This guidebook provides a handy reference for youth to the eight most important social skills and their behavioural steps. Each step includes a rationale for why it is important and hints on how it can best be applied. Eight social skills are included: following instructions, disagreeing appropriately, accepting criticism or a consequence, talking with others, showing respect, accepting "no" for an answer, introducing yourself, and showing sensitivity to others. The behavioural steps to each skill are presented, each with a rationale that youth will respond to and helpful hints on how they can accomplish the behaviour.