TEACHING

SOCIAL
SKILLS
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 In cooperative
learning, specific
social skills are taught
and reinforced in the
classroom.
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 What are These are
social behaviors and other
skills? forms of
communication
necessary to
effectively create
and maintain
relationships.
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 ✓  Each child will have their own 
WHAT ARE personality traits that help inform
THE IMPACT the way they interact with others.
OF DEVELOPED ✓ Positive relationships in life
SOCIAL generally help most individuals
thrive.
SKILLS
✓ Children and teenagers with well-
developed social skills are likely to
gain confidence in their abilities to
approach situations and complete
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tasks more successfully.

 Social skills are one of the most
important skills children and
adolescents develop, as they
often serve as predictors of
future success
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 There are many types of social skills, and it is important to know which
areas your child needs help with.

Problem- Conflict
The Survival Interpersona solving resolution
following
skills l skills: skills:
Asking for skills:with
Dealing
are the four Sharing, help, deciding teasing and
types of Listening, joining a what to bullying,
social skills ignoring, conversation do/appropriat losing/being a
identified in following , taking e action to good sport,
scholarly turns talking take, handling peer
directions recognizing pressure.
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literature:
when to
apologize
 ● The teaching of social skills should
focus on desirable behaviors CAN
● It is also important to allow SOCIAL
children the opportunity to SKILLS
practice.
BE
●  Learn through modeling, role-
TAUGHT?
playing, team building activities,
and positive reinforcement.
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 For example, students m
ight work on
the skill of taking turns li
stening and
then responding appropr
iately.
Teachers teach this skill
by modeling it,
asking students to mode
l it, or by
discussing what it mean
s.
 
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 Teachers explain to the students that they will be
walking around listening to the groups as they work, and
they will be making notes about how the students are
doing on both the academic skill and the social skill.
 
Teachers might ask their students to tell them what they
will see and hear if students are really using the social
skill.
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 Teachers who use cooperative
learning should have a
management tool to help them
keep up with the work that the
groups are doing and their
progress in regard to social
skills.
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Being able to be
emotionally intelligent
is just as important to
being successful in life
as cognitive skills.
Goleman (1995) says it
may be more important
 Antonette
Lyssa
Bonito
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Thank you!
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