Communication Skills
This type of communication uses facial expressions, gestures, and body language.
What is nonverbal communication?
These are two important qualities of a healthy relationship.
What are mutual respect and trust?
When someone says "no," this is what you should do.
What is respect the person’s refusal?
Before posting a photo of someone else online, you should always do this.
What is asking for permission and respecting their response?
This is speaking up respectfully about your own needs and seeking support.
What is self-advocacy?
The primary purpose of this is to understand the speaker’s message.
What is active listening?
This is recognizing and understanding another person’s feelings.
What is empathy?
This is a freely given, informed, specific, and reversible agreement.
What is consent?
This is bullying conducted through digital technologies.
What is cyberbullying?
This is taking action to support that person’s health, safety, needs, or well-being.
What is advocating for someone?
This type of communication expresses needs clearly and respectfully.
What is assertive communication?
This is a limit a person communicates about their body, privacy, or belongings.
What are boundaries?
When an agreement becomes heated, you should do this first.
What is pause and manage your emotions?
You should avoid spreading the content and seek help from a trusted adult or school staff member.
What should you do in response to cyberbullying?
This is a person, service, or source that provides appropriate health information or assistance.
What is a health resource?
This type of statement is designed to communicate a person’s feelings and needs without blaming others.
What is an I-statement?
These are signs of a controlling relationship.
What are controlling another person’s friendships, making threats, applying pressure, or disrespecting boundaries?
This is when someone uses pressure, threats, or intimidation to obtain agreement.
What is coercion?
A trusted adult such as a parent, teacher, counselor, or school staff member.
Who can you go to if you or someone you know is a victim of cyberbullying?
This is an example of how to advocate for a friend who needs help.
What is helping the peer find a trusted adult, counselor, school nurse, or another appropriate support resource?
These are communication skills students can use when discussing group projects and working toward a fair solution.
What are active listening, I-statements, empathy, taking turns speaking, or respectful compromise?
This type of relationship is one in which a friend tries to control everything you do.
What is an unhealthy relationship?
These are the traces of information and activity a person leaves online.
What is a digital footprint?
You should not forward the information; report it and request that inappropriate content be removed.
What actions can you take if someone posts an inappropriate photograph or information about you or a friend?
Self-advocacy means speaking up for your own needs. Advocating for others means supporting someone else’s needs or well-being
What is the difference between self-advocacy and advocating for others?