Teaching Children Role-Modeling Skills

Children do not learn how to act appropriately by magic. They acquire their behaviors, whether socially acceptable or not, by watching and copying others. When children do not exhibit appropriate behavioral skills, it is the responsibility of adults to model and teach them the correct ones.

Educators cannot rely on the possibility that their students learned appropriate behavioral skills at home. Indeed, many students enter school with little or no understanding of how to act appropriately. ...