Free Resources for Universal Interventionsto support Social Emotional Skills

Cheryl WissickUniversity of South CarolinaFor resources Link to http://socialemotionalsupport.wikispaces.com

South Carolina Council for Children with Behavior Disorders Conference October 2008

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RTI Model5%

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Universal preventive measures

Selective preventive measures

Indicated preventive measures

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Fast Facts: you know!!• Studies indicate that 1 in 5 children and adolescents

(20 percent) may have a diagnosable mental health disorder. Estimates of the number of children who have mental disorders range from 7.7 million to 12.8 million. (Department of Health & Human Services)

• Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders include FAS and FASD. They are 0% curable and 100% preventable. FAS rates ranging from 0.2 to 1.5 per 1,000 live births in different areas of the United States. Other FASDs are believed to occur approximately three times as often as FAS. (Source: Center for Disease Control

• Of the 100,000 teenagers in juvenile detention, estimates indicate that 60 percent have behavioral, mental or emotional problems. (Department of Justice)

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Organizations for support & info

•CASEL Center for academic, social and emotional learning

•SAMHSA Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services

•CAST Tools and articles on UDL•More Resources on the Wiki• http://socialemotionalsupport.wikispaces.com

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Training for you or others

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Project Mainstep

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Social Skills vs. Academics•Science Daily (Oct. 16, 2008) — Ten

years after graduation, high-school students who had been rated as conscientious and cooperative by their teachers were earning more than classmates who had similar test scores but fewer social skills, said a new University of Illinois study.( Christy Lleras, a University of Illinois assistant professor of human and community development.)

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Tier 1 Universal Interventions

•Preventative and proactive▫Anti-bullying school campaign

•Universal screening ▫Sociograms

•Effective educational approaches▫Naturalistic, incidental teaching▫Social Emotional Learning

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SEL instruction

•provides students with basic skills, such as good decision-making and refusal skills, which enable them to successfully avoid engaging in high-risk behaviors and to participate in behaviors that support their positive development.

CASEL

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Social Emotional Learning

•Self Awareness▫Understand feelings & abilities

•Social Awareness▫Understanding others, diversity

•Self management▫Handling emotions

•Relationship Skills▫Resisting peer pressure, seeking help

•Responsible decision making

CASEL

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21st Century Skills•Global Literacy - Basic, Visual,

scientific, information, economic…•Problem solving•Communication •Creativity•Innovation & change

65% of our students are online

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Problem solving & Creativity

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Teach students basic literacy skills & SEL skills along with technology.Integrate direct instruction in soft skills for all.Realize that technology is a tool not the goal.

Train students how to use technology effectively to enhance their performance.

Foster collaboration with the use of Web tools

Design lessons with Principles of UDL to create environments that are flexible and useable.

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Soft Skillsvs.Tech skills

•is a sociological term which refers to the cluster of personality traits, social graces, facility with language, personal habits, friendliness, and optimism that mark people to varying degrees. Soft skills complement hard skills, which are the technical requirements of a job.

•Over 1 million hits on Google

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Not a new Term: consider in 1936 Dale Carnegie wrote: How To Win Friends and Influence People

Emotional Intelligence

Communication

Leadership Ability

Etiquette

Persuasion

Decision making

Self-motivation

Self-discipline

Conflict Resolution

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So how do we integrate SEL for all.

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What resources can we use?

Make use of Free Tools•Use Books on the Web •Have Text-to-Speech available for allCreate service learning with tech projectsCollaborate with web 2.0 toolsPractice Principles of UDL

MOST IMPORTANTLY…

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Direct instruction skillswithin an environment of UDL•Define skill•Where you might use it•Why you might use it•Go out and practice – (progress

monitoring)

• Integrate social and academic skills•Consider teaching skills in a thematic

context – ex. creating a newspaper

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Multiple means engagement•Offer Choices of content, tools and engagement•Provide adjustable levels of challenge•Offer a choice of rewards•Offer a choice of learning context•Provide opportunities to participate *

Choose realistic topics of interest to embed the learning materialAllow student to choose tools or technology to explore topic- software, web, videoSelect Software or Web sites that offer same content at different levels of challengeBuild awareness of accomplishment and progress within technology programs

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EduTopia SEL•Videos and

teaching resources

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EduTopia Lesson Guides

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Integrating SEL

•Mental Illness NIH course free online

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Intervention Central

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Survey Tools

•Find out what motivates your students•Jackpot: online reinforcer survey•Survey tools:•phpSurvey•Zoomerang•Survey Monkey

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KidTools and KidSkills

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Behavior Monitoring

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Social Skills

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4teachers.org

•Tools for Student expression▫Project Poster▫Notestar▫Persuade Star

•Tools for Productivity ▫Trackstar▫Quizstar▫Rubistar

Engagement

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Classroom Architect

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Organize Websites for student research with Trackstar

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Multiple means presentation•Provide Multiple Examples•Highlight Critical Features•Provide Multiple Media & Formats•Support Background Knowledge

Variety of web sites to demonstrate, links to support info

Pictures from CD-Roms & web

Word processors to highlight critical words

Presentation tools to animate concepts

Books on tape; Digital text

Charts, graphs, images to support text

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Windows on the Universe

Presentation

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Windows to the Universehttp://www.windows.ucar.edu

Presentation

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Natural Reader (Text to speech)

•Highlight and read web pages•Convert text to audio for mp3 player

Another Great tool: ReadPlease

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Bibliomania

Other Books online: Readprint, Gutenberg

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Reading Fluency & Comprehension•Repeated and monitored oral reading

improves reading fluency and overall reading achievement.

•44% of a representative sample of the nation's fourth graders were low in fluency.

•OKAPI: Use Digital text to create reading fluency prompts

Source: http://www.nifl.gov/partnershipforreading/publications/reading_first1fluency.htm l

Progress Monitoring for Basic Skills

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Wissick, 2008 Another great tool: WordWeb Presentation

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Multiple means of expression

•Provide Flexible Models of skilled performance•Provide opportunities to practice with supports•Provide ongoing, relevant feedback•Offer flexible opportunities of demonstrating a skill

Examples and not-examples with images, video, live demo

Scaffold learning with text-to-speech, word prediction,

layered Web sites

Text-to-speech to listen to own writing

Videotape of skill performance

Online feedback from peers or mentor

Create web pages, poster, presentation

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Create books for students with Learning Prompts

Students create books for younger students - service learning

Bookbuilder

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Collaborative graphic organizer

•Mindmeister

Expression

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Collaborative Presentations

•Google docs •Preezo•Zoho

Expression

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Blogs in the Classroom

•Secure sites to create an environment for students to read, analyze, and post comments related to instructional goals.

•Imbee •TIGed•Haiku

Expression

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Wiki in the Classroom

•Secure sites to create an environment for students to work collaboratively

•Students publish together and for a larger audience

•PBWiki•Wikispaces•Wet Paint

Expression

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Tier 2 selective prevention

•Students who are at-risk▫Bullied, disliked, antisocial behavior

•Establish small groups of students•Interventions are short term•Allow students to move in and out of

groups•Supplement Tier I interventions

▫Social Skill Autopsy (Lavoie)

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Social Skill Autopsy (Lavoie)

definition of a Social Skill Autopsy is "the examination and analysis of a social error to determine the cause of the error , the amount of damage that occurred, and to learn about the causal factor (s) in order to prevent reoccurrence in the future.”▫practice▫immediate feedback▫instruction▫positive reinforcement

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Bullying takes many forms, and can include may different behaviors, such as: ▫physical violence and attacks ▫Practical jokes that hurt▫verbal taunts, name-calling and

put-downs ▫threats and intimidation ▫extortion or stealing of money

and possessions ▫exclusion from the peer group

http://www.bullying.org

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Emotional Coaching•Emotion coaching Steps•Step 1: Being aware of the child's

emotion•Step 2: Recognizing an emotion as a

teaching opportunity•Step 3: Validating the emotion by

listening empathetically•Step 4: Helping the child to label the

emotion•Step 5: Setting limits and helping the

child problem solve

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Tier 3 indicated prevention

•Intensive, individual intervention•Diagnostic assessment

▫DANVA2•Rating scales, FBA•Modify Tier 2 intervention - increase•Use evidence based interventions

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Tier 3 Interventions

•Direct instruction▫In specific social emotional skills

▫In Reading facial expressions, posture, gestures

▫In Language skills required by peers

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Final Thoughts

How do we get there from here?•Extend existing work•Take on something doable•Build bridges•Stay focused

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