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Social 

literacy allows you to speak interestingly & appropriately in


a social setting. Social intelligence lets you know when to keep your mouth shut.
Here are some ways in which I can create a more inclusive classroom and support
social skill development in my future students: 
1.  Model manners
If I expect my students to learn and display good social skills, then I need to lead
by example. A teacher's welcoming and positive attitude sets the tone of behavior
between the students. They learn how to interact with one another and value
individuals. 
2.  Assign classroom jobs
Assigning classroom jobs to students provides opportunities to demonstrate
responsibility, teamwork and leadership. Jobs such as handing out papers, taking
attendance, and being a line-leader can highlight a student's strengths and in turn,
build confidence.
3.  Role-play social situations
As any teacher knows, it's important to not only teach the students a concept or
lesson but then give them a chance to practice what they have learned. The same
holds true for teaching social skills. We need to provide students with opportunities
to learn and practice their social skills. An effective method of practice is through
role-playing.
5. Large and small group activities
In addition to the academic benefits, large and small group activities can give
students an opportunity to develop social skills such as teamwork, goal-setting and
responsibility. Sometimes these groups are self-determined and sometimes they are
pre-arranged. Used selectively, group work can also help quieter students connect
with others, appeals to extroverts, and reinforces respectful behavior. Examples of
large group activities are group discussions, group projects and games. Smaller
group activities can be used for more detailed.

7.  Class stories


There are dozens of stories for kids that teach social skills in direct or inadvertent
ways. Find strategies to incorporate these stories in your class programs. I can set
aside some time each day to read-aloud a story to the entire class or use a story to
teach a lesson. 
8.  Class meeting
Class Meetings are a wonderful way to teach students how to be diplomatic, to
show leadership, solve problems and take responsibility. They are usually held
weekly and are a time for students to discuss current classroom events and issues.
Successful and productive meetings involve discussions centered on classroom
concerns and not individual problems. In addition, it reinforces the value that each
person brings to the class. Before a class meeting, as their teachers, I can provide
the students with group guidelines for behavior, prompts, and sentence frames to
facilitate meaningful conversation.
9. Explicit instruction
Finally, teachers can carve out a time in their curriculum to directly teach social
skills to their students. Research-based programs such as Second Step provide
teachers and schools with explicit lessons for social development. These programs
can provide schools and classrooms with a common language, set of behavior
expectations, and goals for the future.

Good day Ma’am, before I start for the main point of the topic I want to share my
thoughts and experience in What makes social literacy important to me as a person
in society
I’ve read that “social literacy” means “the ability to communicate effectively and
to get along well with others,” so it would depend on exactly what you mean by
those terms. Of course, in a specialization type of economy that we have now,
where each person can do the work he enjoys and needs to be able to communicate
and get along well enough with others to be able to do one’s job and get values
from another in free trade, under those terms it is important. But I would say do not
try to effectively communicate with those who are strongly against your ideas and
will harm you physically for stating them; or try to get along with just anyone as
there are those out there who are not worthy of trust and honor and one needs to be
just or practice justice with regard to others — that character does count and that
one needs to choose one’s friends and associates carefully. I enjoy communicating
with others in a common language in Facebook and other social media, but only up
to a point. If the opponent is being rude or bringing up invectives or using ad
hominess then I stop communicating with them as that means they are not open to
reason. It does not make sense to try to communicate with a physical brute who
will bash your face in if you upset him or try to be friendly with him as you would
have to watch your back all the time. I choose who I communicate with and who to
be friends with by a clear knowledge of justice or I will be fostering enemies that I
might not even know who are fostering or encouraging to be my enemy.

Here is what Ayn Rand had to say about the virtue of justice:


“What fact of reality gave rise to the concept “justice”? The fact that man must
draw conclusions about the things, people and events around him, i.e., must judge
and evaluate them. Is his judgment automatically right? No. What causes his
judgment to be wrong? The lack of sufficient evidence, or his evasion of the
evidence, or his inclusion of considerations other than the facts of the case. How,
then, is he to arrive at the right judgment? By basing it exclusively on the factual
evidence and by considering all the relevant evidence available. But isn’t this a
description of “objectivity”? Yes, “objective judgment” is one of the wider
categories to which the concept “justice” belongs. What distinguishes “justice”
from other instances of objective judgment? When one evaluates the nature or
actions of inanimate objects, the criterion of judgment is determined by the
particular purpose for which one evaluates them. But how does one determine a
criterion for evaluating the character and actions of men, in view of the fact that
men possess the faculty of volition? What science can provide an objective
criterion of evaluation in regard to volitional matters? Ethics. Now, do I need a
concept to designate the act of judging a man’s character and/or actions
exclusively on the basis of all the factual evidence available, and of evaluating it
by means of an objective moral criterion? Yes. That concept is “justice.””
-Ayn Rand Lexicon
I also wrote an essay on justice where I tried to convey that if one has enemies that
one ought not to nuke the entire planet or solar system where such enemies may
reside because you might wind up killing friends as well:
“In Objectivism [the philosophy of Ayn Rand], there are various virtues which are
the means, both intellectual and existential, of achieving one’s values in life. One
of the primary virtues with regard to others is the virtue of justice; this virtue
comes about and is necessitated by the fact that man has free will and does things
intentionally. There is no justice in the fact that a meteor may hit your house if it
falls from the sky, but the principle of justice must be taken into account if
someone tosses a missile your way, as what happens to Israel quite often via
Hamas. In the case of the meteor, no intention was involved. There is no one up
there determining whether man deserves to live or not and then lunching meteors at
him to accomplish his sense of justice – it’s just a rock falling from the heavens. In
the case of Hamas, certain very intentional actions are taking place, and since these
are done by man, they must be assessed by a rational standard
according what is and what is not beneficial to man’s life qua rational animal.”

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