Social Smarts
School smarts, lego smarts, math smarts, music smarts, art smarts, people smarts(social smarts)
What are types of "SMARTS"?
When someone does something unexpected, people have _____________ thoughts about that person.
What is UNCOMFORTABLE?
These are some of the tools that we can use to help us make a "smart guess" about what is expected.
What are our "ears" (hearing), our "eyes" (looking), our "brains" (thinking) and our "hearts" (feelings)?
How can a teacher know
who is part of the group and on task,
by doing a scan and looking quickly
around the classroom?
What is students will be looking at the activity,
talking about the task, and their
body will be turned into the group?
When we use our social
smarts, we become a
______________
______________
What is a "Social Detective"?
Where do we use our Social Smarts?
What is EVERYWHERE?
The opposite of Expected Behaviour is.....
What is UNEXPECTED BEHAVIOUR?
If we are only using our eyes to read a book, what smart guess might someone make about us?
What is "that we are unfriendly because we are only focusing on our book and ignoring everyone around us"?
Give examples of unexpected
behaviour during group
work.
What is doodling on work, rude
language, facing away from
group members, eyes looking
around, or ignoring teacher?
Being a Social Detective
builds our ___________
smarts.
What are "SOCIAL" smarts?
Understanding that others have thoughts about us and we have thoughts about them.
What are "Social Smarts"?
Give 2 examples of UNEXPECTED BEHVAVIOURS on the playground
What is using mean words, not taking turns, getting angry at others when they win, becoming physically aggressive.
When we use our eyes, ears,
and brains to make a smart guess,
we are trying to figure out what
someone is _____________ or
________________.
What is "thinking and feeling"?
When we use our eyes, ears,
and brains to make a smart guess,
we are trying to figure out what
someone is _feeling___ or
___thinking_____.
Give examples of expected
behaviour during morning
meetings.
What is facing into the circle, eyes
on the speaker, inside voice is being used,
bodies in the circle, students are taking turns,
everyone is thinking about what is going
on and what is being said?
If we see someone holding
a baseball and bat, using our
Social Detective skills, we can
figure out what will happen
next. What is it?
What is "There is a Baseball game happening, or kids are going to play baseball"?
Taking turns, sharing, saying kind words, staying calm when someone else wins, and thinking about others...
What are ways we use our social smarts?
TRUE OR FALSE.... If a person's body is NOT part of the group, he or she is displaying unexpected behaviours.
What is TRUE!
TRUE OR FALSE?
We can use our eyes and ears
along with what we know in
our brains to figure out what
is expected in different places
What is TRUE?
When we work well in groups
in the classroom, and on the
Playground we are good ____________ __________________ .
What is "Social Thinkers"?
When social detectives use
their eyes, ears and brain,
we call this making a
__________ _________.
What is a "Smart Guess"?
Building our social smarts makes us better __________ ____________ over time.
What is Social Thinkers?
When we do what is expected, people have _________ ____________ about us.
What is good thoughts?
No eyes + no ears + not
thinking about what we
know = ?
What is a WACKY GUESS?
We notice when a student’s
brain or body are NOT part
of a group. Is that expected
or unexpected behavior?
What is UNEXPECTED BEHAVIOUR?
What do social detectives
use along with their brains
to figure out what is expected
and what may happen next?
What is "their eyes and ears"?