Social Skills
Amy, all students benefit from the explicit teaching of social skills. These skills underpin all aspects of school behaviour and promote a positive and inclusive learning environment.
There is a program called 'Friendly Kids, Friendly Classrooms' developed by Helen McGrath and Shona Francey, which encompasses the following skills
Social skills
The following document is a collaboration of visual cues highlighting the thought process students should undertake when interacting in the classroom, playground and within society.
There is a program called 'Friendly Kids, Friendly Classrooms' developed by Helen McGrath and Shona Francey, which encompasses the following skills
Social skills
- Playing games well – playing fairly, being a good winner, and being a good loser.
- Being positive – positive tracking and giving and receiving compliments.
- Taking risks – approaching and joining in, and speaking in front of an audience.
- Co-operating – negotiating, dealing with fights and arguments, suggesting and persuading (instead of bossing), making decisions in a group, respecting other people’s opinions, sharing, and including others.
- Being interesting – listening and asking good questions, telling an interesting story and having an interesting conversation.
- Standing up for yourself – responding to provocation, telling someone to stop annoying you, ignoring someone who is giving you a hard time, saying “No”, and asking an and adult for support.
- Finding solutions to social problems – the social problem solving strategy and when is it dobbing?
- Creating a positive and cohesive classroom – developing a positive group feeling, rewards for the whole class, and positive classroom profile.
- Building self esteem and confidence – being successful, general principles for enhancing self esteem, and controlling body language.
- The small group approach – organising a games group, the games and rules strategy, and arranging practice opportunities.
The following document is a collaboration of visual cues highlighting the thought process students should undertake when interacting in the classroom, playground and within society.
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Bullying
Bullying is a serious problem in schools that affects the self-esteem and happiness of many students. Schools must have a program in place that publicises and aims to diminish this issue. There are various plans that can be adopted that have a high success rate. I think that knowledge is a big factor in relation to bullying. Students need to be aware that they don’t have to tolerate bullying and know that they can get help. With the rise of technology is today’s society bullies are able to access their victims in a variety of ways via mobile phones and the Internet out of school hours as well. Schools need to acknowledge and aim to prevent this.
The following article provides some beneficial insights into diffusing bullying in your classroom.
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The following document has been released by the DET and has some great activities you can use and suggests the strong involvement of the students leaders in the anti-bullying scheme
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