Skillstreaming

• McGinnis, E. & Goldstein, A. (1997) Skillstreaming the elementary school child: New strategies and erspectives for teaching prosocial skills. Champaign, IL: Research Press

Improving school survival skills and social skills

• Many children have difficulty learning the behaviours necessary to get along successfully in the classroom or social situations.

• These children often have not learned appropriate ways to behave, socially or academically.

Improving school survival skills and social skills

• Need to be taught appropriate school behaviours and social skills just as they need to be taught reading and math

• Many cannot meet demands of completing assignments, following directions, being on time, completing homework, studying for tests, listening,…..

• Can make a difference for all students

Teacher

• Organize environment to promote social interaction, prompting, reinforcement social skills instruction

• Peers use imitation, initiation, prompting and reinforcement, coaching and tutoring

• Importance of learning strategies

Is this bullying?

• Skill Steps

• 1. Ask, “Is this bullying?”

• A. Are the actions hurtful to you or someone else?

• B. Are you or someone else afraid?

• C. Has this happened more than once?

Is this bullying?

• Be sure to explain to students that not all

actions must be repeated for them to be considered bullying. Although behaviours considered bullying are often repeated events, a single, severe incident also needs to be reported.

Is this bullying?

• 2. Check it out if you need to.

• Let students know that they can explain what they saw to a friend, a teacher, or a parent and ask for that person’s opinion.

Is this bullying?

• 3. Think of your choices.

• A. If yes, report the bullying

• B. If no, be brave

• Explain that acting in a brave way could be asking the person to stop, walking away and ignoring, and so forth.

• 4. Act out your choice

Reporting bullying

• Skill Steps

• 1. Ask yourself, “Should I tell someone?”

• Students should decide on 2 things

• A. Is this bullying? And B. Is the purpose of the report to get themselves or someone else out of trouble, rather than in trouble?

Reporting bullying

• 2. Decide whom to tell• Encourage students to tell an adult. They may talk

the problem over with a peer; however, they also need to tell an adult.

• If students don’t receive help from one adult, they should seek help from a different adult. Explain to the students that some adults may not know about bullying or how to handle it.

Reporting bullying

• 3. Tell

• Have students practice saying, “I’m being bullied” or ____________ is being bullied.”

• 4. Ask for help to stop the bullying.

• Practice ways to ask for help.