Social Relationships

Social Relationships are a part of life and can be easily gained by some and can be very difficult for others. I have found three artifacts that could be beneficial for understanding the importance of building social relationships and how teachers and parents can help students benefit the most from those relationships. I have also presented a link to a Social Skills Training Program to help understand the skills that a student will need to maintain social relationships.

The first artifact that I would like for you to review is a Social Skills Training Program by Goldstein and Pollock. This is a series of lessons that should be taught to small groups of students in a six week period of time. Each lesson is about 30 minutes long and teaches skills like: ending conversations, apologizing and accepting compliments. To view this Program click on the following link.

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ebdstudy/strategy/socskils.htm


The second link will take you to information about how after school programs can be very beneficial for students and how it can provide them with a sense of “meaningful and authentic bonding". I found this article very interesting and hope you do as well. If well designed an afterschool program can be beneficial to both students and their parents and this article provides information about how they can benefit from these programs. Click on the following link to view this article:

http://www.afterschoolalliance.org/Special%20Needs%20IB34%20final.pdf

The final artifact that I would like you to view is called Tools for Teachers. To view this artifact use the link that follows this paragraph. This artifact provides informal assessments that will help teachers make appropriate decisions about the social skills that may be needed by students that they are working with. It also provides transition information and ideas that have worked for others. ENJOY!!

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ebdstudy/strategy/socskils.htm