Module Four | Teaching Students How to Behave: Social Skills
The following module is designed to assist educators in teaching critical social skills. Social skills are important to address in our schools, not only to help make school a more positive place in which to learn, but to help promote optimal student learning. By assuring that youngsters have critical social skills, the occurrence of many behavior problems can be prevented. In addition, interpersonal relationships and academic achievement are likely to improve.
Goals
After completing this module, you should be able to:
Discuss how social skills training differs from approaches that focus on pinpointing and eradicating problem behaviors.
Identify the two major areas of social skills training, provide several examples of behaviors contained in each, and discuss the importance of each area.
Specify and discuss two major ways of identifying specific social skills that are missing.
List the four guidelines for selecting the replacement social skills to be taught.
Identify and discuss the two basic systems for measuring the effectiveness of the social skills training program.
Present how a social skills program can be set up in a classroom (design the program), and describe what must occur in the classroom if the social skills training is conducted by someone outside the classroom.
Discuss the importance of skill cards and how they might be used in the classroom.
Identify the two behavioral procedures that social skills training are based upon.
Conduct a social skills training for a student or class.
