Kids and young adults need to be able to problem-solve on their own. Every day, kids are faced with a huge number of social situations and challenges. Whether they are just having a conversation with a peer, working with a group on a project, or dealing with an ethical dilemma, kids must use their s
5 key reasons to teach students to analyze differing perspectives
This post contains Amazon Affiliate links for your convenience. Recently I brought you my review of You Are A Social Detective: Explaining Social ThinkingⓇ to Kids by Michelle Garcia Winner and Pamela Crooke… and now I am FINALLY getting around to sharing all of the cool activities we did to go with that book! Woot! If […]
Some time back, I noticed posters like this in our school hallways. I found out from learning support that they were to help the children learn self-regulation. The posters were based on a con…
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I Can Get Calm Social Stories Girl version and boy version HALF AND FULL PAGE social story versions included. Printer friendly and colored versions of each story Digital Google Slides version now included. Activity Included These social stories are meant to help kiddos who are upset and need to calm down. There is a social story for a boy and a girl. There are colored and black and white versions of each book. The black and white version could be used also as a calming strategy for a student that likes to color while calming down. This social story is included in my social story pack that you can find here: Social Story Pack: 12 Stories If you have any questions or comments, please email me at [email protected]
Free Anger and Feelings Worksheets for Kids
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I have learned (the hard way) that not all social skill deficits are one & the same. In an effort to save time, I tried to have grade level social skills groups. It seemed like a good idea at the time, but once my groups got underway it became pretty clear that the children in my groups had very different skill sets. There I was, trying to save time by teaching all of my students social skills at the same time. While struggling to meet the needs of my students and keep them engaged, I had to ask myself, 'Was
Children with Autism, emotional disability, or other social deficits struggle with impairments in many areas – relationships, communication skills, emotional regulation, and organization to name a few. This pack contains numerous activities to be used individually or combined to make a survival guide binder for a student with social difficulties. This binder is designed to ...
Superflex teaches kids they can be a superhero if they use flexible thinking strategies to self-regulate. When sneaky characters called Unthinkables visit our brains and push us toward socially unexpected behavior, children use their strategies to defeat the Unthinkables and steer themselves back on the pro-social track. Learn about this positive, motivating program to teach self-regulation!
Kira is working hard on her spelling test, pressing down hard with her pencil as she's writing. Suddenly, the pencil breaks and she bursts into tears. "My pencil broke!!!" she yells to no one in particular.
An Occupational Therapist recently provided this program for a student that had trouble with having too much energy in the classroom. The Alert Program provided a system for the student to recogniz…
Free social skills worksheets can help young children learn about friendship, responsibility, listening skills, and other positive character traits.
A 2nd grade winter early finishers social emotional worksheet that makes students think about things they can and cannot control.
Social Thinking is a treatment framework and curriculum developed by Michelle Garcia Winner that targets how to enhance and improve social thinking abilities, regardless of diagnostic label …
Teaching empathy is important. In the simplest of terms, empathy is the ability to notice, understand, and share the emotions of others. It is a critical social skill for all people to have. In many ways, empathy is the social skill that paves the way for all other social skills. It helps us to take
This was one of the first books in the series of Superflex books from Social Thinking® and Michelle Garcia Winner. Out of all of the Superflex books, I like it the best.
Unhelpful thinking styles - great for the thought challenging intervention or to be used when helping manage children’s anxiety and worries
Teach your students this simple 5 step process to solving a social problem. Give your students the skills they need to independently ...
After what seems like barely even a winter (not one single snow day or even a school delay for my county!) spring has officially arrived. I realized yesterday that there is very little time left be…
How do people develop self-awareness? Learn about the importance of self-awareness in people who learn and think differently, and how to help build it.
Today’s class was all about social stories. Social stores were developed by Carol Gray to describe a situation, skill or concept in terms of relevant social cues, perspectives, and common responses in a specifically defined style and format. This definition of a social story is from The Gray Center website and more information can be found on the website below. http://www.thegraycenter.org/social-stories Social stories are most often used with students or young children with an Autistic Spectrum Disorder. The purpose of a social story is to give clear, concise information for appropriate behaviour in a specific social situation. Here is an example of a social story for ‘playing’. Social stories can also be made into social videos. These can be very useful for students because they can be downloaded on an iPod Nano for students to watch over and over again. This helps to reinforce the skills being taught and can ease anxiety for students. The videos can have text and voiceover so students can listen to the instructions while watching the videos. Some students could be included in the making of the video and even star in their own video. Social videos are especially good for supporting students in new situations, such as a first day at a new school. Here is an example of a very simple social video for hand washing.
