Chapter 13 (Friend)

Chapter 13                      Building social skills

-Social skills : behaviors that help students interact successfully with their peers, teachers, and others and that help them win social acceptance 

-a time when children with and without disabilities from friendships and learn about each other

-as a teacher promote positive social interactions among students with and without disabilities

-create opportunities for social interactions

-3 components in building social relationships: 1. Arranging the student interaction 2. Nuture mutual support and friendship between students with and without disabilities  3. Offer positive role models

-Nurturing support and friendship:

                  -Circle of friends: program designed to help students without disabilities understand how important it is to have friends with disabilities and to encourage them to form friendships with classmates with disabilities. http://www.circleofriends.org/

                   - Use General friendship-building strategies first

                   -Resolving support and friendship problems: addressing problems that go on between friendships, a lot of times it is a students with a lot on the IEP

                   - parents and friendship : parents play an important role in this. They can provide info that may help their child better socialize or help make suggestions http://humsci.auburn.edu/parent/socialskills.html

-How can you provide education about individuals with disabilities?

                   -informing through direct instruction: provide the students with relative info, such as through guest speakers. You can also incorporate it into the curriculum

                  - use video and print media:  research

                 -demonstrating and using adaptive technology: teach about the technology used to help people with disabilities

-peer tutoring: student-centered instructional approach in which pairs of students help one another and learn by teaching

-peer-assisted learning strategies (PALS): research-based form of reciprocal classwide peer tutoring designed to assist struggling students across all grade levels to  learn key math and reading skills

-Classwide peer tutoring (CWPT) : peer-mediated instruction in which all students in a class are partnered. Both students serve as the tutor and tutee following a clear procedure, and they are rewarded for demonstrating appropriate social behaviors

-same-age tutoring: peer-tutoring approach in which students in the same class or grade level tutor one another; tipically with higher-achieving students

-supporting peer-tutoring programs: management and supervision, staff and administrative support, assistance from volunteers, communication about peer tutoring

-cooperative learning  : student-centered instructional approach in which students work in small, mixed-ability groups with a shared learning goal

-Developing cooperative learning programs: form a cooperative learning group, prepare students for cooperative learning, select circular content, choose a cooperative learning program (Jigsaw classroom, numbered heads together, cooperative integrated reading and composition(CIRC)), monitor program effectiveness

-how to help students with disabilities improve social skills http://www.ldanatl.org/aboutld/teachers/social_emotional/counseling.asp

                    -use informal instruction

                    -use behavioral interventions

                    -use social skills training programs