Shadow Teacher Perspective: Some students find difficulty in understanding the purpose of teacher’s actions. They may think that the teacher calling upon them is a way to punish them. In such instances Social Stories™ may help to depict a social situation that may help the student understand what exactly is happening and why. Read it over with them have them keep it in a file so that they can have access to it whenever possible. Remember social stories can be used to make understanding a social situation much easier and less anxiety provoking! Angelik.
Thursday, May 5, 2011
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Shadow Teacher Perspective: Some students find difficulty in understanding the purpose of teacher’s actions. They may think that the teacher calling upon them is a way to punish them. In such instances Social Stories™ may help to depict a social situation that may help the student understand what exactly is happening and why. Read it over with them have them keep it in a file so that they can have access to it whenever possible. Remember social stories can be used to make understanding a social situation much easier and less anxiety provoking! Angelik.
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Hi Penny and Angelik! and congratulations on your presentation at the conference:-)
ReplyDeleteThe creation of this blog is a great idea! and the thoughts you share are very useful. Thank you!
For the particular one on social stories I think is one of the best tools to teach social skills/norms to students and what is expected of them in the classroom. I have used them greatly in the past as well as with my student this year in JK with visual cues and simple, short sentences for everyday activities like 'sharing toys', sitting on the carpet' etc. Here is a good site on social stories and how to write one:
http://www.polyxo.com/socialstories/introduction.html#whatare