Tools for Teaching Social Skills in School: Lesson Plans, Activities, and Blended Teaching Techniques to Help Your Students Succeed
Help prevent problem behaviors and actually increase time available for academics by teaching social skills to students.

Tools for Teaching Social Skills in School provides teachers with: 

  • Lesson plans with activities that can be adapted for students in grades K-12. The plans include suggestions for discussion, activities, journaling, role play, and reading.
  • Reproducible skill pages that you can hand out or post in the classroom as reminders to students and coupons you can use to reward good behavior.
  • Techniques for "blending" the teaching of social skills into academic lessons in reading, writing, math, and social studies.
  • Ideas for using bulletin board displays and individual student graphs to motivate and monitor behavior.
  • Strategies for increasing parent support.

An ideal companion to More Tools for Teaching Social Skills in School, this workbook targets 28 social skills including following instructions, staying on task, working with others, accepting criticism, listening, ignoring distractions, making a good choice, sharing, and showing respect. The authors train other teachers, administrators, and other school staff across the United States in the Boys Town Education Model. 
 

Here's what teachers who have used the lesson plans in their classrooms have to say about Tools for Teaching Social Skills in School:

"The best thing about this book is that each lesson that is given is complete and foolproof. If you follow what to do the lesson is sure to be a big hit!"

"I truly loved these lessons. It was enjoyable because they were so easy to follow and truly effective with the students. It was very rewarding to see the students using these strategies."

"I found many ideas that I am using, with different twists, some new ideas, and lots of new books to add to my library that will help my students deal with positive behaviors."

"Sometimes, teachers think that they have no more solutions to problems, but this book provides new insightful ways to help students in need."

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Tools for Teaching Social Skills in School: Lesson Plans, Activities, and Blended Teaching Techniques to Help Your Students Succeed
Help prevent problem behaviors and actually increase time available for academics by teaching social skills to students.

Tools for Teaching Social Skills in School provides teachers with: 

  • Lesson plans with activities that can be adapted for students in grades K-12. The plans include suggestions for discussion, activities, journaling, role play, and reading.
  • Reproducible skill pages that you can hand out or post in the classroom as reminders to students and coupons you can use to reward good behavior.
  • Techniques for "blending" the teaching of social skills into academic lessons in reading, writing, math, and social studies.
  • Ideas for using bulletin board displays and individual student graphs to motivate and monitor behavior.
  • Strategies for increasing parent support.

An ideal companion to More Tools for Teaching Social Skills in School, this workbook targets 28 social skills including following instructions, staying on task, working with others, accepting criticism, listening, ignoring distractions, making a good choice, sharing, and showing respect. The authors train other teachers, administrators, and other school staff across the United States in the Boys Town Education Model. 
 

Here's what teachers who have used the lesson plans in their classrooms have to say about Tools for Teaching Social Skills in School:

"The best thing about this book is that each lesson that is given is complete and foolproof. If you follow what to do the lesson is sure to be a big hit!"

"I truly loved these lessons. It was enjoyable because they were so easy to follow and truly effective with the students. It was very rewarding to see the students using these strategies."

"I found many ideas that I am using, with different twists, some new ideas, and lots of new books to add to my library that will help my students deal with positive behaviors."

"Sometimes, teachers think that they have no more solutions to problems, but this book provides new insightful ways to help students in need."

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Tools for Teaching Social Skills in School: Lesson Plans, Activities, and Blended Teaching Techniques to Help Your Students Succeed

Tools for Teaching Social Skills in School: Lesson Plans, Activities, and Blended Teaching Techniques to Help Your Students Succeed

Tools for Teaching Social Skills in School: Lesson Plans, Activities, and Blended Teaching Techniques to Help Your Students Succeed

Tools for Teaching Social Skills in School: Lesson Plans, Activities, and Blended Teaching Techniques to Help Your Students Succeed

Overview

Help prevent problem behaviors and actually increase time available for academics by teaching social skills to students.

Tools for Teaching Social Skills in School provides teachers with: 

  • Lesson plans with activities that can be adapted for students in grades K-12. The plans include suggestions for discussion, activities, journaling, role play, and reading.
  • Reproducible skill pages that you can hand out or post in the classroom as reminders to students and coupons you can use to reward good behavior.
  • Techniques for "blending" the teaching of social skills into academic lessons in reading, writing, math, and social studies.
  • Ideas for using bulletin board displays and individual student graphs to motivate and monitor behavior.
  • Strategies for increasing parent support.

An ideal companion to More Tools for Teaching Social Skills in School, this workbook targets 28 social skills including following instructions, staying on task, working with others, accepting criticism, listening, ignoring distractions, making a good choice, sharing, and showing respect. The authors train other teachers, administrators, and other school staff across the United States in the Boys Town Education Model. 
 

Here's what teachers who have used the lesson plans in their classrooms have to say about Tools for Teaching Social Skills in School:

"The best thing about this book is that each lesson that is given is complete and foolproof. If you follow what to do the lesson is sure to be a big hit!"

"I truly loved these lessons. It was enjoyable because they were so easy to follow and truly effective with the students. It was very rewarding to see the students using these strategies."

"I found many ideas that I am using, with different twists, some new ideas, and lots of new books to add to my library that will help my students deal with positive behaviors."

"Sometimes, teachers think that they have no more solutions to problems, but this book provides new insightful ways to help students in need."

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781934490228
Publisher: Boys Town Press
Publication date: 06/01/2011
Edition description: First Edition, Unabridged
Pages: 293
Product dimensions: 8.30(w) x 10.80(h) x 0.90(d)
Age Range: 3 Months to 18 Years

About the Author

Michele Hensley, M.S., has 17 years of teaching experience at the high school and middle school levels in San Antonio, Texas, and Omaha, Nebraska. For nine years, she worked with teachers and school administrators as a consultant and trainer for Boys Town. Hensley is a co-author of Tools for Teaching Social Skills in School, and is a science instructor at Boys Town High School.


Jo C. Dill on is currently a site coordinator and Catholic schools coordinator with Boys Town’s Education Training Department. A 13-year employee of Boys Town, she previously taught religion classes and helped pilot the Reading Is FAME® reading program at Boys Town’s Wegner School. She is a co-author of Tools for Teaching Social Skills in School. During her more than 28 years as a teacher, Dillon taught in schools in Gretna and Omaha, Nebraska; Denver, Colorado; and Des Moines, Iowa.


Denis Pratt serves as a trainer/consultant for teachers and administrators with Boys Town’s Education Training Department. Pratt is also a co-author of Tools for Teaching Social Skills in School. She previously served as an experiential educator, teaching interpersonal skills to individuals from second-graders to adults. Her students included public-, private-, and home-schooled children, as well as adjudicated youth and youth in residential care with social and psychiatric diagnoses. She has also worked as a high school guidance counselor and assistant track coach.


Ray Burke , Ph.D., a former employee of Boys Town, served in a variety of direct care, training, and administrative positions, including as assistant director of Education Services and national director of parent training programs and as Director of Program Evaluation for National Training . Burke has provided consultation to a variety of childcare and educational organizations, and has authored numerous professional and self-help books, manuals, videos; grant applications; and articles for professional publications. He also has taught a variety of university courses and seminars related to parenting and family development.

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