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>TEACHING SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL SKILLS AT SCHOOL AND HOME

Linda K. Elksnin and Nick Elksnin

Teaching Social–Emotional Skills at School and Home is designed to provide teachers and parents with strategies for teaching children and youth to become socially and emotionally competent.

This book is research-based yet practical and easy to read. The authors examine all aspects of social–emotional learning, including emotional literacy, social problem solving, and the social skills essential for making friends and succeeding in school—making this text the most comprehensive available.

Readers will learn how to teach social–emotional skills at the individual, classroom, schoolwide, and districtwide levels by integrating instruction within the academic curriculum and how to make social–emotional learning part of school and family life.

Special Features

  • Includes assessment approaches to identify children who need social–emotional skills instruction
  • Contains practical activities to help children of all ages understand and regulate emotions, make and keep friends, solve social problems, and succeed in school
  • Addresses the importance of social–emotional skills for gaining and maintaining employment
  • Incorporates real-life vignettes that connect theory and practice
  • Provides numerous useful forms, checklists, and planning sheets

Contents

  1. The Importance of Social–Emotional Competence
  2. Identifying Children and Youth Who Need Social–Emotional Skills Instruction
  3. Teaching Children and Youth to Understand and Regulate Emotions
  4. Teaching Children and Youth Social–Emotional Problem-Solving Strategies
  5. Teaching Children and Youth Peer-Pleasing Social–Emotional Skills
  6. Teaching Children and Youth Teacher-Pleasing Social–Emotional Skills
  7. Teaching Occupational Social–Emotional Skills
  8. Parents as Teachers
  9. Getting Children and Youth to Use Social–Emotional Skills
Appendix A: Books for Parents, Children & Youth, and Teachers & Administrators
Appendix B: Children’s Books Chosen by Children

0603/352 pages/2006
Paperback
ISBN 978-0-89108-316-0
$60.00


     
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