Empathy
Your good friend tells they are not feeling well.
What can you do?
What is asking if there's anything you can do to help?
You find out your good friend likes rap music but you don't like rap music.
How should you handle it?
What is asking what your friend likes about it?
What are coping skills you can use when you feel overwhelmed?
What is taking a deep breath, listening to music, talking to a friend about what is overwhelming you
How can you make new friends when you start at a new school?
What is: ask what your peers interests are, talk to them during lunch/passing, join a afterschool club or sport
What was the last social event you went to?
Fun!
A friend tells you it would be funny if you knock over another student's stuff off of their desk.
What should you do?
What is -
1. refuse to knock things over
2. change the subject
You promised your friend that you'd help them study for their history test after school, but you'd rather stay home and watch a movie now.
What should you do?
You find out you are having a surprise assignment in your hardest class, you haven't studied, what can you do?
You meet new friends and want to hang out with them but they want to go see a horror movie and you can't sleep after watching scary movies, what do you do?
What is decline the offer this time but tell them you want to hang out sometime.
What is your favorite way to spend the weekend!
Awesome!
You disagree with your friends perspective.
What do you do?
What is the best way to communicate?
Talking face to face
The homework is really hard this year especially reading, you get frustrated because you do not understand it.
What do you do?
What is ask your teacher/co teacher for help and use learned coping skills
What are the benefits of having good social skills?
What is communicate your needs/wants better, make friends, get the help you need
If you could talk to any fictional character, who would it be?
Yay!
Your friend trips and falls in the rain getting mud all over their new shoes
What can you say or do?
What is offer to help get them towels to wipe their shoes and I'm sorry that happened and maybe describe how you can relate
You sit next to a kid that you have caught stealing things out of your locker and tries to copy your work, the teacher never catches them though, what do you do?
Write an incident report in the office, tell the teacher or talk to the student.
A student talks out of turn and yells out answers to questions without raising his hand, he is often loud and makes noises. He is often disruptive, what do you do?
What is tell the student you're not done talking and will they please wait to speak after your turn
How can you tell when someone is listening to you?
Eye contact, their responses, body language, what else?
If we had a class potluck, what snack would you bring?
Yum!!
Your friend finds out they have to move schools and they're crying out of frustration
What can you say or do
What is share your frustration about them moving and share how youll miss them
Someone is throwing paper towels at you in the bathroom, what do you do?
What is tell them to stop and create an incident report
It is two weeks before finals/graduation and you have lost motivation to complete your assignments
What do you do?
What is talk to the teacher and ask to make an arrangement to complete assignments for credit
What are some social skills to keep in mind when traveling somewhere?
Be mindful of other people in the space.
If you could travel anywhere in the world tomorrow, where would you go?
Awesome!