Teaching Social-emotional Skills at School and Home - Softcover

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"Teaching Social - Emotional Skills at School and Home" is designed to provide teachers and parents with strategies for teaching children and youth to become socially and emotionally competent. This book is research-based yet practical and easy to read. The authors examine all aspects of social-emotional learning, including emotional literacy, social problem solving, and the social skills essential for making friends and succeeding in school - making this text the most comprehensive available. Readers will learn how to teach social-emotional skills at the individual, classroom, schoolwide, and districtwide levels by integrating instruction within the academic curriculum and how to make social - emotional learning part of school and family life. The features include: includes assessment approaches to identify children who need social - emotional skills instruction; contains practical activities to help children of all ages understand and regulate emotions, make and keep friends, solve social problems, and succeed in school; addresses the importance of social - emotional skills for gaining and maintaining employment; incorporates real-life vignettes that connect theory and practice; and provides numerous useful forms, checklists, and planning sheets.