Planned Teaching
Boys Town Social Skill Lesson Plan
	How to Accept Criticism
Introduce Skill	List the sports played at the Olympics.  How do athletes
What?	learn their sports?  Do they ever get criticized?
When?	Why is criticism sometimes necessary?  What is
Who?	"constructive" criticism?  In what other areas
	besides sports are people given criticism?  Who
	gives you criticism?
Describe Skill Steps	1.  Look at the person.
	2. Say "Okay."
	3. No arguing.
	(Not if life-threatening or if it may harm you.)
Rationale	If you can accept criticism, you may learn from
Benefit	your mistakes.  Others may see you as responsible,
Neg. Consequence	and may be more likely to want to work with you.
Concern
Request for	Do you understand?  Repeat the steps.
Acknowledgment
Practice	Role play a sports activity where the coach gives criticism.
	Draw Olympic sports scene as cartoon with captions
	of steps of How to Accept Criticism.
Feedback	Nice job of accepting criticism?  You looked at the
	person, said "Okay" and didn't argue.
Positive	Because you practiced How to Accept Criticism so well, you've all
Consequence	earned a sticker.
Follow-Up Practice	"Personal Olympics" - write personal social skills goals
	and illustrate using Olympic figures.