Social Skills & Improvement
A person is focusing on a hard worksheet, and they don't know the answer, what can you do to help them?
Ask them if they need help on a question if they are stuck on it, or ask a teacher to help.
What is something that you can work on to be a good student in middle school?
The Cheating Friend: Your best friend tells you they cheated on a big math test to pass. The teacher notices the identical answers and asks you if you know anything. Do you protect your friend or tell the truth?
If you end up protecting your friend, you might get in trouble, and it's best to tell the truth rather you and your friend getting in trouble.
What can you do if someone is being mean to you?
Tell them to stop, or tell an administrator, principal, or teacher to help you with the problem.
What can we do to improve better? What goal can we achieve in middle school?
We can achieve goals by following directions, being a good student, no bad behavior, good behavior, and also caring about each other, and also looking out for each other as well.
The Group Chat: Someone starts a group chat and everyone begins making fun of a classmate who isn't in the chat. You don't participate, but you don't say anything to stop it either. Are you just as responsible as the kids making the jokes?
No, you don't have to join, you can decide to say something to defend your classmate, and you should tell the people to stop immediately.
If someone says something bad about you, what should you do? Should you ignore them or tell them to stop?
You should walk away and avoid eye contact with those people if they are saying something bad to you.
What else can we also achieve in middle school?
The Exclusion Dilemma: A popular group of students invites you to sit at their lunch table, but they explicitly tell you that your other, less-popular friend cannot join. What do you do?
You tell your less-popular friend to sit with you far away from the popular girls instead of sitting with them.
You got involved into a fight, what should you do?
Tell a teacher, principal, administrator, or inform the teachers and talk about what happened in the fight.
What can we also improve in middle school?
We can work together, introduce ourselves, talk about our opinions, make new friends, and also improving in our grades.
Secret Keeping: A friend confides in you that they are doing something dangerous or harmful, but makes you promise on your honor not to tell anyone. Do you keep the secret or break your promise to get them help?
Keep the secret safe with you, do not tell anyone the secret or else the person that told you the secret could also get mad at you.
What should you do if the teacher tells you to be quiet more than three times?
Stay quiet, don't make any noise, raise your hand to only talk to the teacher if you have questions.
What challenge can we face? How can we improve while facing hard things in school?
Ask a friend or a teacher to help you, figure out things by your own.
Someone makes a rumor about you at school, how would you feel if someone did that to you?
Tell an administrator, teacher, principal, or tell them to stop or walk away and ignore them.