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Each of the 16 lessons can only be found in the book, What's the Buzz? for Early Learners: A complete social skills foundation course
A summary of each lesson and its key social principle is presented below. A vital component of successfully teaching social skills is clearly communicating the underlying social principles to all involved.
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Key social principle
We begin this first lesson by teaching children how-to offer a friendly greeting, and respond to one. This is where friendship begins! There is also the accompanying theme that friends can like different things; what's most important is to delight in differences. This lesson also establishes our GROUP VALUES as a promise to help one another and become a friendly group of learners.
Key social principle
This lesson teaches ideas about how-to join a group and how-to accept others when they wish to join your group. The way you choose to 'join in' can make you look friendly or unfriendly. When you act in friendly ways, others are more likely to want you to join in and be with you.
Key social principle
This lesson explores how-to share and how-to take turns. It also looks at how you might feel if something you care about is taken without your permission, and how you can cleverly fix the problem. The goal is to provide deeper insights into sharing and taking turns because sharing plays an important part in friendly connections with others.
Key social principle
The focus of this lesson is to teach children how-to think cooperatively and what the associated skills feel and look like. The idea is that cooperation happens when we listen to what others want, and try to find a way to make it work for them and for us. It's about working together. The incentive is that as we become more cooperative others will see our kindness and see us as a friendly person.
Key social principle
This lesson teaches children the value of waiting, and how-to wait more patiently. It leads them to see that they can manage their waiting better by doing a few clever things. Having to wait happens every day for each of us, so learning to be a helpful 'waiter' is an important 'getting along' skill.
Key social principle
This lesson alerts children to an obvious fact; disagreements and upsets between are bound to happen, so it's best to prepare. The lesson promotes the idea that there are many friendly solutions to help friendships recover, forgive and continue. Let's explore how-to make things better following a conflict or fight because conflict resolution skills are not innate, they must be learned.
Key social principle
This lesson acknowledges the tricky feelings often associated with winning and losing. While the lesson outlines practical ideas about what to say and do following a win or a loss, it emphasises that the best way to be an all-round winner is to play to win friendship. When the goal is to be kind and show friendship, you give yourself the best chance to win and lose 'gracefully'.
Key social principle
This lesson teaches children the difference between 'Fact' and 'Opinion.' A natural consequence of relationship is being challenged, sometimes provoked, by opposing opinions. The lesson explores the kinds of feelings that different opinions can set off in us. It coaches how-to respond respectfully, rather than following an impulse to argue over differences. With this knowledge friendships are more likely to be enriched over having different ideas and opinions.
Key social principle
Every experience has the potential to trigger unpredictable emotions. This lesson provides a foundation to identify and understand an assortment of feelings often experienced, and seen in others. We teach 'Smart Thinking' – that is, when children plan to deal with tricky feelings they give themselves a better chance to think and make good choices.
Key social principle
This lesson is dedicated to teaching children about angry feelings and how-to deal with them more positively. Feeling angry from time to time is normal, but when a person chooses to break things, hurt others and say nasty things they have lost being in charge of their feelings. The best way to be the boss of your feelings is to use 'Smart Thinking' - a plan to stay calm, think and make good choices.
Key social principle
This last lesson, based around 'feelings,' is dedicated to the creation of wellbeing. Finding moments to do what we enjoy helps us to meet life's ever present challenges with greater composure. When we do this we look and feel resilient! The best way to improve our resiliency is to create a life balance between what we 'must do' and things we 'like to do'. Then, we're more likely to use 'Smart Thinking' and live so much more optimistically.
Key social principle
Being honest is one of the most important foundations for strong, healthy relationships with others because it builds trust. This lesson aims to define honesty and place a stamp on its importance. It also explores why some people are tempted to be dishonest, or tell lies, and what the consequences might be.
Key social principle
This lesson teaches children how-to say, "No", and speak up when something doesn't feel right. Its purpose is to help children discriminate between promises, secrets and surprises. An additional theme highlights that not all promises, secrets and surprises are necessarily bad, but there are ways to tell the good from the bad. We alert children that they have our permission to stay safe, and show them how-to do this assertively.
Key social principle
Learning to empathise makes it easier for children to get along with each other and to handle problems when they arise. This lesson teaches children what they can 'say and do' to display empathy. When we show care to others we can help them feel better.
Key social principle
This lesson sets out to build mindfulness about worry. We present the idea that a little worry is normal, as it can help us to make sense of our world. On the other hand, too much worry and not knowing how-to deal with it is disabling. So, let's explore what most of us worry about and learn to effectively respond to it, rather than internalising it and not knowing what to do.
Key social principle
Greetings and goodbyes are socially influential moments. A successful greeting can engage others to want to grow connections in the future with us. Similarly, a great goodbye delivers precious positive social feedback to improve prospects to reconnect later. Yet, there are a number of basic sub-skills, each requiring some precision, that make or break greetings and goodbyes. As this lesson is the final in the series, it is fitting to highlight the importance of a great goodbye through direct teaching, role-plays and games.
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