Teaching Students Social Skills: Session 9

Session 9

A Stop & Think Demonstration Lesson: Grade 1

The Positions for Listening, Raising Your Hand, and Ignoring Distractions

[Total Session Time: 28:40 minutes; Demonstration Lesson- 12:30 minutes]

Contents and Brief Description

Brief Review of the Steps in a Stop & Think Social Skills Lesson
Preview of the Grade 1 Social Skills Lesson on the Positions for Listening, Raising Your Hand and Ignoring Distractions
Grade 1 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 Grade 1 classroom of students. With teachers in the room to observe and learn from this demonstration, Dr. Howie teaches the students three “position skills” related to Listening, Raising Your Hand, and Ignoring Distractions.

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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