School days, school days, good old fashioned break-social-etiquette-rule days... Ahhh...September, back to school, new school clothes, new caseloads, new students, new inappropriate comments, and violations of personal space!!!! EEEK!!
We both work at high schools, and we both do push-in collaboration lessons in classrooms where many students are working on pragmatics, or social skills...many students are on the Autism Spectrum. We love kicking off the year with some basic "Do's" and "Dont's" social lessons so the students at least have some basic rules...and a spot to sit at at lunch!! (These rules actually benefit anyone 12 and over...sometimes we all need some social skills reminders).
The lessons my students love involve movie or TV show clips. For this particular lesson I use the first Diary of a Wimpy Kid (2010) movie, and I have the students watch (from scene selection on the menu) the scene that begins with the junior high marquis, and I show it until they are walking home from school after their first day of junior high. As the students watch I have them reference the worksheet below and put simple (+) or (-) in the column on the right to indicate if the behavior is something that is "ok" or "not ok" behavior for various school scenarios. Click on the link below for the worksheet.
After the movie clip we have a follow-up discussion about some of the problems or social scenarios that came up on the first day of school and I have students discuss various solutions to these issues...and then take it a step further and have them figure out what the result or consequence would be. Click on link below for the problem solving worksheet.
Class: dismissed...now go stay on topic during conversations and act appropriately in the lunch room.
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