Social Cognition: How to Teach Your Child Social Skills?
About the Event
- Why are Social skills important?
- What are the subtypes of skills?
- How do we recognise them?
- How do we teach them?
- Experiential activities
Do any of these comments sound familiar?
“I tell him to stop doing that, but he keeps on doing it. Damn. This kid must have been raised by wolves!”
“That kid knows how she is supposed to behave. She CHOOSES to misbehave.”
“I ask him what he is supposed to be doing and he can tell me. He knows better, so why isn’t he doing it?”
Some kids know (intellectually) what to do, but they’ve never (physically) done it before. It’s difficult for all of us to all-of-the-sudden display a completely different behavior than we’ve been showing for years.
Why Are Social Skills Important?
Social skills are those communication, problem-solving, decision making, self-management, and peer relations abilities that allow one to initiate and maintain positive social relationships with others. Deficits or excesses in social behavior interfere with learning, teaching, and the classroom’s orchestration and climate. Social competence is linked to peer acceptance, teacher acceptance, inclusion success and post school success.
What Social Skills Will we be looking at?
“Manners” & positive interaction with others
-approaching others in social acceptable ways
-how to asking for permission rather than acting impulsively
-how to make and keep friends
-sharing toys/materials
Appropriate classroom behavior
-work habits/academic survival skills
-listening
-attending to task
-following directions
-seeking attention properly
-accepting the consequences of one’s behaviour
Better ways to handle frustration/anger
-counting to 10 before reacting
-distracting oneself to a pleasurable task
-learning an internal dialog to cool oneself down and reflect upon the best course of action
Acceptable ways to resolve conflict with others
-using words instead of physical contact
-seeking the assistance of the teacher or conflict resolution team
Speaker Profile
Mr. Rudolf Stöckling,
Educational Psychologist, MSc (Psych); Dip.Ed; B.A.
Member Australian Psychological Society
Event Details
Date: April 14th, 2010
Timing: 18.00 – 21.00
Location: Tulip Inn Hotel, Dubai Knowledge Village, Khaled 2 Meeting Room
Entry is FREE but Registration is necessary either via e-mail or SMS.
Please RSVP to:
050-7954428
info@lexiconreadingcenter.org
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