Tools for Teaching Social Skills in School

Book Description

Lesson Plans, Activities, and Blended Teaching Techniques to Help Your Students Succeed

Teachers can help prevent problem behaviors and actually increase time available for academics by teaching social skills to students. This book provides teachers with:

• Lesson plans with activities that can be adapted for students in grades K-12. The plans include suggestions for discussion, activities, journaling, role play, and reading.
• Reproducible skill pages that you can hand out or post in the classroom as reminders to students and coupons you can use to reward good behavior.
• Techniques for "blending" the teaching of social skills into academic lessons in reading, writing, math, and social studies.
• Ideas for using bulletin board displays and individual student graphs to motivate and monitor behavior
• Strategies for increasing parent support.

Targets 28 social skills including:

• following instructions
• staying on task
• working with others
• accepting criticism
• listening
• ignoring distractions
• making a good choice
• sharing
• showing respect.

The authors have a combined 40 years of teaching experience in K-12 classrooms and now train other teachers, administrators, and other school staff.