Teaching Students Social Skills: Session 8

Session 8

A Stop & Think Demonstration Lesson: Kindergarten

Listening, Raising Your Hand, Sitting for Circle Time, Walking in a Line

[Total Session Time: 48:00 minutes; Demonstration Lesson- 32:00 minutes]

Contents and Brief Description

Brief Review of the Steps in a Stop & Think Social Skills Lesson
Preview of the Kindergarten Social Skills Lesson on Listening, Raising Your Hand, Sitting for Circle Time, Walking in a Line
Kindergarten Demonstration Social Skills Lesson
Debrief and Summary

With instruction and commentary interspersed (especially in the Debrief and Summary section at the end), this video shows a demonstration of a real Stop & Think Social Skills lesson with an intact Kindergarten classroom of students. With teachers in the room to observe and learn from this demonstration, Dr. Howie teaches the students four “position/classroom routine skills” related to Listening, Raising Your Hand, Sitting in Circle Time, and Walking in a Line.

Across the lesson, many of the seven steps in a model social skill lesson are demonstrated, as well as the scientifically-based social learning approach to teaching behavior—specifically: (a) Teaching the Skill and its Steps/Scripts; (b) positively Modeling the skill; (c) giving selected students opportunities to Role Play the skill with Performance Feedback; and (d) providing examples and recommendations to the students to facilitate their Transfer or Generalization of the skill to real situations.

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