EDUC3300 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Observational Techniques, Rudolf Dreikurs
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Tea(cid:272)hers do (cid:374)ot feel respo(cid:374)si(cid:271)le to tea(cid:272)h so(cid:272)ial skills or feel that they do(cid:374)(cid:859)t have sufficient skills to teach social skills. Students with poor social skills: at risk of rejection, failure to maintain satisfactory relationships with others, victimization, loneliness, poor academic performance, dropping out of school, difficulties maintaining employment (cook et al, 2008) Social skills training intervention used to increase the social skills and social competencies of students with behavior difficulties. Social skills: specific behaviors related to the competent performance of social tasks. Social competency: the degree to which an individual performs a social task competently. Objectives: to promote skill acquisition, to enhance skill performance, to reduce or eliminate competing problem behaviors, to facilitate generalization and maintenance of social skills (cook et al. , 2008) Teachers need to: determine what social skills students are deficient in before they can design specific interventions to teach or increase those skills, this is perceived as too difficult/time consuming.
