Franklin's Philosophy of Life
in His Own Words
312 Pages
Do You Make These Mistakes
When Teaching Social Skills Lessons?
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"In reviewing The Seven C's of Thinking Clearly, I felt it added a dimension to Social Skills that I had yet to find. One of the strengths was how it combined language-based skills into the social skills lessons. Sandy Sanders |
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Hi,
I'm George Rogers. While there are literally thousands of ways for individuals to
demonstrate social skills deficits, there are only three types of deficits they might have:
Skill Deficit
A skill deficit is one in which the student has not learned to perform a given behavior.
Discrimination Deficit
A discrimination deficit occurs when a student possesses a desired skill and is motivated to behave properly, but doesn’t seem to know when to exhibit the behavior.
Motivation Deficit
A motivation deficit exists when a student possesses the skill, but lacks the desire to perform it. This represents a more serious challenge in social skills training, largely because so many more people are susceptible to it.
The motivation deficit affects all classes of people in all cultures and environments. It lies at the root of all criminal behaviors, all addictive behaviors, and all other self destructive and self defeating behaviors we as humans engage in.
The common denominator, and the key determinate in behavior, for all three forms of social skills deficits is our thinking skills and level of emotional intelligence. This is also the key for effectively teaching social skills lessons.
Teaching Social Skills Lessons
Ultimately, the goal of teaching social skills lessons is to help young people develop the internal controls they need to avoid or overcome these deficits and effectively govern their behaviors. This is best achieved by helping them more fully develop their thinking skills and emotional intelligence
Fortunately, both our thoughts and emotions are susceptible to training thus allowing to us to attain the self-control we need to live happy, useful and productive lives.
Let me introduce you to some iconic characters that will enable you to turn almost any reading assignment into a social skills lesson. In The Seven C's of Thinking Clearly grades 2-6 students become aware of The Stink'n Think'n Gang, a band of thieves out to rob them of common sense and good judgment. In grades 5-9 they become acquainted with EPT, a clandestine organization whose aim is to destroy civilization by flooding the world with Error-Prone Thinking. They also get to know the CT Team whose mission is to protect them from The Stink'n Think'n Gang and EPT.
You will be amazed how these little characters improve reading comprehension and enable students to better understand both historical and current events.
The stories and activities in The Seven C's of Thinking Clearly enable students to overcome social skills deficits by helping them:
Develop Their Thinking Skills
By helping young people focus on developing their thinking skills, several important things happen.
- It allows teachers and students to examine together the thought processes that lead to self-defeating behaviors in fun, objective, and non-threatening ways
- It helps students to understand the connection between attitudes, behaviors and consequenses
- It enables students to recognize the relevance of what they are learning, and
- It encourages students to take greater ownership of their choices and actions
- All of which are essential ingredients for positive social interactions.
Develop Essential Virtues
Every social skills lesson in The Seven C's of Thinking Clearly provides students opportunities to develop virtues such as personal responsibility, self-respect, respect for others and trustworthiness—all essential to overcoming the three social skills deficits.
Develop Understanding
The Seven C's of Thinking Clearly employs several important comprehension and retention stratgegies designed to help students understand why certain attitudes and behaviors are more beneficial and productive than others.
- A rich literature base of high interest stories enables students to understand the inescapable link between attitudes, behaviors, and consequences.
- The mental imagery of "The Stinkn' Thinking Gang", "EPT", and "The CT Team" characters is especially helpful to students in learning to overcome negative and counterproductive thinking.
- A wide range of fun, "Is-Like" learning activities enable students translate familiar everyday experiences into an understanding of abstract concepts, which in turn, helps them to better distinguish appropriate behaviors for given situations.
- The use of Hindsight, Insight, Foresight questions along with other cooperative learning strategies require active student involvement in the learning process.
- The activities and stories are relevant to experiences your students are having on a daily basis.
These short, literature rich lessons are curriculum friendly, easy to prepare, and fun to present. Each lesson is designed to meet core curriculum standards, thus facilitating its integration into your daily schedule.
When you utilize the Lesson Finder associated with each book, you will find you have a complete lesson plan in place saving you a great deal of preparation time.
Put these all together and you have multiple opportunities every day for teaching the critical social skills your students need. You also have comprehension, retention, and motivation strategies that help students generalize what they are learning from the classroom to natural settings.
"Wow! What a writer! George-you are such a good communicator through poetry and stories." "Your material is excellent. The genius of your prose open new ideas from old standards. What a great resource collection." There was a lot of good material included in this unit (self-respect). We had some good discussions and students shared how the things they learned applied to things they were dealing with in their lives right now." |
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The imaginative activities and examples make the teaching fun and that's when teachers and students get excited.
Media Specialist
Eden Prairie, MN
. . .by far the most creative social skills program I have ever reviewed.
School Social Worker
Terre Haute, IN
Extremely appropriate for my students. Skills they are lacking and need desparately. They stayed involved and were able to participate.
Elementary Teacher
Lindon, UT
The students were very attentive. They enjoyed the subject matter and were able to bring their own experiences into the discussion and relate to it.
Elementary Teacher
Highland, UT
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