Getting Along Social Skills Activities for Middle and High School Students
$21.95
Dianne Schilling
For students to truly get along they have to develop self-awareness, undertake responsibility for their actions, accept and appreciate differences in others, listen with empathy and understanding, communicate their thoughts and feelings accurately and assertively, include others in their activities, be open to divergent styles and points of view, work together to solve problems and complete projects, and peacefully resolve conflicts. What’s more, they have to be conscious that they are doing these things and be able to verbalize the reasons and benefits.
The high-impact activities in Getting Along are designed to address these skills in a deliberate, enjoyable fashion and, in the process, elevate the awareness of students to the responsibility that each has to make the classroom or school a cooperative environment where everyone is included and interdependent and where dissent and conflict are dealt with productively.
Getting Along provides you with over 60 involving, relevant activities, discussions, role-plays, games, simulations, Sharing Circles, and reproducible experience sheets all designed to develop:
- Inclusion, cooperation and interdependence among students
- Skills for cooperative problem-solving and conflict management
- Genuine appreciation for the enriching potential of individual differences
- A cooperative learning environment where kids can learn while participating in relevant experiences
Table of Contents
Introduction
Appreciating Differences
- Are We the Same or Different?
- Counting on Each Other
- Count on Me! (Experience Sheet)
- In Search of the Perfect Person
- Success Bombardment
- Success Inventory (Experience Sheet)
- A Time I Felt Important
- A Time O Stood Up for Something I Strongly Believe In
- I Was Labeled Based on Something I Couldn’t Change
- Something I Can Do to Promote Peace and Understanding
Communicating Effectively
- Language as Pilot
- Common Communication Blocks
- Communication Blockers (Experience Sheet)
- Play It Back!
- The Active Listener
- Be an Active Listener! (Experience Sheet)
- The I’s Have It
- Don’t Say “You” — Say “I” (Experience Sheet)
- Follow My Lead
- A Time I Listened Well
- What I Think Good Communication Is
Developing Friendship Skills
- I Like My Friend Who
- The Friendship Shake
- Conversation Log (Experience Sheet)
- Two Sides of Friendship
- Setting Friendship Goals
- Becoming a Better Friend (Experience Sheet)
- One of the Nicest Things a Friend Ever Did for Me
- Something I Never Do When I Want to Make Friends
- I Have a Friend Who Is Different From Me
Helping and Being Helped
- Help!
- To Help of Not to Help (Experience Sheet)
- Someone Did Something for Me That I Appreciated
- Something I Need Help With
- I Helped Someone Who Needed and Wanted My Help
Including Others
- The Clique Phenomenon
- Getting on Your Own Side (Experience Sheet)
- How It Feels To Be Left Out
- Pigeonholes and Stereotypes
- Promoting Inclusion
- Strength in Numbers
- Linked Together
- Go Team!
- I Wanted To Be Part of a Group But Was Left Out
Resolving Conflict
- Conflict du Jour
- Conflict Observation Sheet (Experience Sheet)
- Conflicts, Adult Style
- Conflicts Happen (Experience Sheet)
- Conflicts I’ve Managed
- Exploring Alternatives to Conflict
- Conflict Resolution Strategies (Experience Sheet)
- I Observed a Conflict
- I Got Into a Conflict
- One Person Kept Blaming Another for Causing a Problem
- A Time We Needed Help to Resolve a Conflict
Working Together
- Search for the One-Person Team
- Search for the One-Person Team (Experience Sheet)
- What’s You Preference — Alone or Together?
- Interdependence Day!
- Connect!
- Alphabet Names
- Stepping Stones
- Protect Your Rights!
- A Time I Worked in a Successful Group
- We Used Teamwork to Get It Done
Grades 6-12, 128 pages, 8-1/2 x 11, paperback
Description
Dianne Schilling
For students to truly get along they have to develop self-awareness, undertake responsibility for their actions, accept and appreciate differences in others, listen with empathy and understanding, communicate their thoughts and feelings accurately and assertively, include others in their activities, be open to divergent styles and points of view, work together to solve problems and complete projects, and peacefully resolve conflicts. What’s more, they have to be conscious that they are doing these things and be able to verbalize the reasons and benefits.
The high-impact activities in Getting Along are designed to address these skills in a deliberate, enjoyable fashion and, in the process, elevate the awareness of students to the responsibility that each has to make the classroom or school a cooperative environment where everyone is included and interdependent and where dissent and conflict are dealt with productively.
Getting Along provides you with over 60 involving, relevant activities, discussions, role-plays, games, simulations, Sharing Circles, and reproducible experience sheets all designed to develop:
- Inclusion, cooperation and interdependence among students
- Skills for cooperative problem-solving and conflict management
- Genuine appreciation for the enriching potential of individual differences
- A cooperative learning environment where kids can learn while participating in relevant experiences
Table of Contents
Introduction
Appreciating Differences
- Are We the Same or Different?
- Counting on Each Other
- Count on Me! (Experience Sheet)
- In Search of the Perfect Person
- Success Bombardment
- Success Inventory (Experience Sheet)
- A Time I Felt Important
- A Time O Stood Up for Something I Strongly Believe In
- I Was Labeled Based on Something I Couldn’t Change
- Something I Can Do to Promote Peace and Understanding
Communicating Effectively
- Language as Pilot
- Common Communication Blocks
- Communication Blockers (Experience Sheet)
- Play It Back!
- The Active Listener
- Be an Active Listener! (Experience Sheet)
- The I’s Have It
- Don’t Say “You” — Say “I” (Experience Sheet)
- Follow My Lead
- A Time I Listened Well
- What I Think Good Communication Is
Developing Friendship Skills
- I Like My Friend Who
- The Friendship Shake
- Conversation Log (Experience Sheet)
- Two Sides of Friendship
- Setting Friendship Goals
- Becoming a Better Friend (Experience Sheet)
- One of the Nicest Things a Friend Ever Did for Me
- Something I Never Do When I Want to Make Friends
- I Have a Friend Who Is Different From Me
Helping and Being Helped
- Help!
- To Help of Not to Help (Experience Sheet)
- Someone Did Something for Me That I Appreciated
- Something I Need Help With
- I Helped Someone Who Needed and Wanted My Help
Including Others
- The Clique Phenomenon
- Getting on Your Own Side (Experience Sheet)
- How It Feels To Be Left Out
- Pigeonholes and Stereotypes
- Promoting Inclusion
- Strength in Numbers
- Linked Together
- Go Team!
- I Wanted To Be Part of a Group But Was Left Out
Resolving Conflict
- Conflict du Jour
- Conflict Observation Sheet (Experience Sheet)
- Conflicts, Adult Style
- Conflicts Happen (Experience Sheet)
- Conflicts I’ve Managed
- Exploring Alternatives to Conflict
- Conflict Resolution Strategies (Experience Sheet)
- I Observed a Conflict
- I Got Into a Conflict
- One Person Kept Blaming Another for Causing a Problem
- A Time We Needed Help to Resolve a Conflict
Working Together
- Search for the One-Person Team
- Search for the One-Person Team (Experience Sheet)
- What’s You Preference — Alone or Together?
- Interdependence Day!
- Connect!
- Alphabet Names
- Stepping Stones
- Protect Your Rights!
- A Time I Worked in a Successful Group
- We Used Teamwork to Get It Done
Grades 6-12, 128 pages, 8-1/2 x 11, paperback
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