Teaching Students Social Skills: Session 7

Session 7

How to Teach a New Social Skills Lesson: Step by Step

[Total Session Time: 1 hour, 50 minutes]

Reviewing the Two Primary Components of Stop & Think Instruction
Teaching “Position Skills” Using the Stop & Think Process
The Stop & Think Social Skills Lesson: The Steps for Teaching a New Social Skill
Introducing the Stop & Think to Students
Discussing Good and Bad Choices with Students
Introducing New Social Skills and Teaching Scripts and Behavior
Modeling
Role Playing and Performance Feedback
Mastering New Skills through Application and Infusion

This session completely focuses on breaking down and describing, step by step, how to teach a classroom social skills lesson that introduces and teaches students—for the first tine—how to demonstrate and apply a new Stop & Think social skill in a classroom, across the common areas of the school with adults, and/or with peers. Initially, the two primary components of Stop & Think instructional process are discussed in depth—the Stop & Think language and skill scripts, and the social learning theory-based components that effectively teach students social skills.

A number of social skills “positions” (e.g., listening, raising your hand with your mouth closed, the “turtle” or “pivot” position for ignoring distractions) then are outlined, and a video showing how to teach these positions to Grade 1 students is presented and analyzed.

The seven specific teaching steps of a Stop & Think lesson that introduces a new social skill to students then are discussed in detail, accompanied by separate video clips showing each step as a general education classroom of Grade 2 students is taught the “Asking for Help” skill.

This session ends by briefly discussing the Application and Infusion activities built into the Two-Week Social Skills Instructional Cycle for each skill, and the Stop & Think Social Skills demonstration lessons in Sessions 8 to 14 are overviewed.

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