Social skills elementary curriculum

Research-Based Social Skills Curriculum and Program

Aug 25 2020

Positive Action Staff

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Early childhood education is necessary for healthy development. The initial years are the basis for children’s future education, helping them become lifelong learners and perceptive individuals.

Positive Actions offers a social skills curriculum for students, preschool through high school, to develop the positive habits they need for long term success.

What is a social skills curriculum?

Social skills are an essential part of everyday life. Fostering young student’s social abilities prepares them for a lifetime of productive interactions and meaningful relationships. The curriculum gives students the education they need to handle everything from non-verbal cues to uncomfortable situations.

The curriculum provides a supportive SEL framework in a formal setting. We draw on decades of history and research to instill students with the most advanced social skills program available. According to researchers, students in the program see a 19% improvement in pro-social behavior and an 85% reduction in disciplinary action.

Positive Action: The only program that you need

Positive Action has assisted students, teachers, and counselors across the country since 1982. Our social and emotional learning curriculum a social skills group curriculum with academic material. The combination gives participants the robust instruction they need to have long and healthy relationships.

Schools across the country, from Tallahassee, FL to Compton, CA, already experience the benefits of Positive Action. The supportive system fits with any existing educational programming and on any budget. Learn more about Positive Action results by checking out the success stories.

Program Structure

Our curriculum contains seven units that provide students with strong core knowledge and skills. Each section focuses on different areas of self-improvement and helps students make meaningful changes. These seven units apply at all levels, whether teaching preschoolers or high schoolers.

1. Self – Concept
2. Positive actions for your body and mind
3. Managing yourself responsibly
4. Treating others the way you like to be treated
5. Telling yourself the truth
6. Improving yourself
7. Review

The stable baseline prepares students for specialized instruction. Positive Action offers supplement kits that let educators systematically explore particular topics in depth. Some of the additional packages cover community involvement, substance abuse, and bullying prevention.

Available for Multiple Grades

Preschool

Our materials help preschoolers transition from acting out to talking about their feelings. The extra support provides an essential building block for future well-being.

Elementary

The social skill curriculum for elementary students makes learning fun and interactive. Students engage with short scripted lessons that teach the importance of positive interactions. This evidence-based unit keeps students on schedule and communicative with teachers.

Middle School

Students have a dynamic social network by the time they reach adolescence. The social skills curriculum for middle school pivots to emotional intelligence and self-management. The lessons encourage students to utilize appropriate social skills at school and in their personal lives.

High School

Social and emotional learning never stops. The high school curriculum prepares students for adulthood. The evidence-based lessons include the essential skills and insights people need to succeed as an independent and productive member of their community.

How to implement our Social Skills Program?

Implementing the Social Skills Program requires a collaborative effort. Positive Action believes in identifying leaders for each lesson and establishing ground rules and channels for clear communication. Teachers that introduce the programming in the morning can reinforce their concepts throughout the day.

Further reading: Planning Positive Action Implementation

Research Outcomes

Positive Action doesn’t rely on gut feelings. The social skills curriculum comes with scientifically backed research from leading research institutions, including the Board of Education. Learn more about the science behind Positive Action by checking out various randomized-controlled trials.

Unlock the full potential of your students

Unlock students’ full potential today with our social skill program. The comprehensive Positive Action social skills curriculum guides teachers and educators step-by-step to foster more socially and emotionally in-tune students. You can make a difference in a child’s life with only 15 minutes a day.

Make a positive impact in your community by calling us at (208) 733-1328 or emailing us today.

Social Skills Lessons & SEL Curriculum For Elementary School

Students in Pre-K through 2nd grade are at a crucial developmental milestone to begin social emotional skill development for early elementary students with Move This World. With their big imaginations, young students take naturally to our unique interactive videos. By inviting them to play, Move This World seamlessly introduces SEL concepts into their daily routine.

SEL Social Skills Build Communication

While children in this age group love to laugh, sing, and move, they also have very big feelings and emotions. They are still developing an awareness of how they relate to their peers, and they are learning to regulate their bodies. Their brains are doing hard work, and they don’t always know how to ask for a break or for help.

Teachers are under pressure to give individual attention to students without falling behind in a given day’s lesson plan. Administrators are aware that each classroom has complex dynamics, and it’s difficult to know if teachers have the tools they need to fully serve the students. Family members need the support and tools to help them bridge the gap for their children, whether learning is happening remotely or in the classroom.  

Now imagine a radically different learning environment. Students have words for their emotions. When those emotions run high, you know how to help your students breathe their way to calm. Everyone starts the day with exercises that encourage focus and listening skills. Students pay attention to peers and family members and apply social skills that help them support each other. This is all possible, and this is how we Move This World.

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Skills: Identifying emotions, Expressing emotions

Objectives: Recognize that emotions vary in intensity. Recognize and label the intensity of an emotion we are experiencing and describe what causes our basic emotions.

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Age Appropriate Approach to Emotional Intelligence

Move This World’s early elementary program is designed to work in cooperation with the cognitive abilities of each grade level. Our program provides a grade-level specific SEL curriculum for Elementary Schools and doesn’t ask these students to be anyone other than who they already are.

Through short interactive social emotional videos for elementary students the incorporation of movement and creative expression, early elementary-aged students will open the day with guided exercises that help them prepare for learning in a safe environment. These exercises build sequentially over the course of the year, allowing students to build SEL skills at the right pace for their grade level.

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Psychological and pedagogical conditions for the formation of social skills in young children

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Soft skills or social skills for a student: 85% of success in life

Harvard and Stanford believe that a student's academic knowledge is only 15% of success in his further education, in building a career and in life.

Russian schools actively download knowledge into the heads of our children, but do not teach them social skills, the so-called soft skills - leadership, teamwork, organizational skills, etc. Namely, they allow you to apply the acquired knowledge and achieve your goals: a prestigious university, a successful career, a happy family and true friendship.

A survey of Fortune 500 CEOs found that long-term and sustained job success was 75% social skills and only 25% academic.

Therefore, European education has long included the training of soft skills, without which it is difficult to succeed in the modern world. Many of these traits are innate and inherent in every child, but they need to be cultivated and developed. Here are some critical social skills that will help any student reach their goals in life.

TEAM WORK

The ability to listen, the ability to see a common goal and find common ground between a common idea and personal ambitions. Willingness to help others and support in a difficult situation, the ability to convince and find a compromise.

Check if your child can:

• do things with other children?
• help someone solve their study question?
• to make sure that not only he, but his entire team achieves the goal?

How it is taught in a foreign school:

• team events: games, performance, volunteer programs;
• joint academic projects, when the project can be defended only by the whole team;
• competitions between "Houses" for schoolchildren studying on a full board basis.

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LEADERSHIP

To be a leader means to be a person whom everyone else recognizes as having the right to make responsible decisions for the entire team.

Check if your child can:

• to become a leader for other children: inspire and lead them?
• understand and feel other people?
• to set other children tasks corresponding to their abilities and nature and to achieve their fulfillment?

How it is taught in a foreign school:

• Supervision of junior schoolchildren and beginners by high school students;
• Numerous clubs and hobby classes are sure to resonate in the soul of any student, and he will take the initiative in the area that interests him and gather his team of like-minded people.

We are looking for leaders, but not from the category of “president of the chess club”, but from those who, faced with a problem, can at the right time take the lead of the team and lead it to the goal

- Laszlo Bock, VP Recruitment, Google

CREATIVITY

A creative person is able to find non-standard, completely new solutions in familiar situations, he is able to invent and implement new ideas.

Check if your child can:

• Suggest an idea for a gala evening, fashion design or pop star poster?
• tell your friends the story he made up?
• come up with an idea for a new computer game or mobile app?

How it is taught in a foreign school:

• When solving a problem, the student will be asked not only to give the correct answer, but also to find 10 different solutions;
• Students focus on both academic knowledge and extracurricular activities - music classes, theater productions and acting skills, development of artistic skills. It is easier for a child with a broad outlook to find a non-standard approach to solving a problem.

COMMUNICATION

The ability to communicate, openness and the ability to establish contact with other people, as well as to make the right impression on them.

Check if your child can:

• Is it clear and interesting to express your ideas and thoughts?
• speak confidently with a group of your peers, with a school principal, with other adults?
• speak in front of an audience of 100 people?

How it is taught in a foreign school:

• Students are encouraged to actively participate in discussions in the classroom. And the final assessment is influenced by the student's involvement in lectures and seminars and his ability to defend his point of view;
• Schoolchildren are constantly surrounded by their peers and implement academic projects together, participate in sports and creative events, attend hobby groups;
• Career days and meetings with universities are regularly held for high school students. Schools set aside time to develop a personal resume, self-presentation skills and interviews.

MANAGEMENT

It is the ability to bring people together to achieve a goal and inspire yourself and others to action. Initiative, demanding of oneself and others, attention to detail, the ability to delegate or do it yourself - all these are important qualities of an organizer.

Check if your child can:

• organize your time so that you can keep up with your studies and take part in additional school activities?
• put together a team to run cross country together or organize a party?
• make quick decisions when things don't go as planned?

How it is taught in a foreign school:

• time management skills are the first thing a student learns. Unlike Russian students, European students do not study from morning to evening. The whole day is scheduled by the clock, there is time for study, sports, hobbies, homework and, of course, time for rest;
• participation in numerous school events requires a variety of skills from the student, including the ability to organize an exhibition, holiday, performance, debate, sports match and much more.

POSITIVE

Faith in yourself and in other people. This is such a view of the world in which a person can look at events from different angles and prefers to find positive in everything that surrounds him.

Check if your child can:

• keep a smile on your face despite the challenges?
• to fight and not give up, even when you fail to achieve the goal?
• try to solve your problems on your own, without immediately resorting to your help?

How it is taught in a foreign school:

• Support and attention of teachers, mentors and high school students. The school is well aware of the difficulties students face and is always ready to help with advice and pay attention to positive events.
• A healthy competitive environment helps students focus on their goals and not on temporary setbacks.

CURIOSITY

Intellectual curiosity, thirst for new knowledge, interest in the world around and desire for new experiences. This is a natural quality of any child and it is important to preserve it.

Check if your child can:

• look away from your phone or tablet and look around when you are driving?
• when you find yourself in a new place, try to find out something about it?
• ask questions about how the world works?

How it is taught in a foreign school:

• The task of every teacher is not only to prepare a student for final exams, but also to make him fall in love with his subject. The first thing that Russian children and parents notice is that students in European schools love to study.
• Well-equipped classrooms and laboratories - here you can study not only theory, but also try everything in practice. Chemistry, physics, biology become especially exciting.
• School activities also include guest speakers and themed tours. Children can learn first-hand about the subject and specialties: who you can become in the future, how you can apply the acquired knowledge in practice, what kind of employees employers want to see.

Most children are not very self-confident. They worry about entering a new social situation, about learning new skills, about having to complete a new task, even more difficult. They seek help and support from friends, parents, teachers, and this is natural.

Studying in European schools, students develop their social skills, becoming more self-confident. These skills have nothing to do with intelligence, the ability to quote Shakespeare in the original, or mentally multiply three-digit numbers. But the ability of a child to clearly formulate thoughts, offer alternatives and respect someone else's point of view will make him successful in all areas of life.

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