Planned Teaching | ||
Boys Town Social Skill Lesson Plan | ||
How to Greet Someone |
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Introduce Skill | Divide class into groups. Give each group 3 minutes to | |
What? | brainstorm ways to say "hello." The group with the most | |
When? | ideas receives a "smiling" sticker. Discuss when to greet someone and | |
Who? | who to greet. Make list on board of people to greet every day. | |
Describe Skill Steps | 1. Look at the person. | |
2. Smile. (Emphasize this step.) | ||
3. Use a pleasant voice tone. | ||
4. Make a verbal greeting. | ||
Rationale | Greeting someone appropriately makes the person you are | |
Benefit | greeting feel good, and that person may remember your | |
Neg. Consequence | greeting at a later time. When you smile and greet someone, you | |
Concern | take a positive step. You may make a new friend. You may make | |
someone who is sad feel better. | ||
Request for | Doe this make sense? Have students repeat steps together | |
Acknowledgment | as a class. | |
Practice | Role play How to Greet Someone with a partner. Have each | |
student draw a cartoon showing the proper steps to greet | ||
someone. Make the cartoons part of a bulletin board display | ||
on "How to Greet Someone." | ||
Feedback | What a great job you've done practicing and drawing the | |
steps of How to Greet Someone! (Repeat steps again.) | ||
Positive | Because you've done such a nice job practicing and drawing | |
Consequence | cartoons of the steps to follow when greeting someone, we'll | |
put the bulletin board display in the hall where everyone | ||
can see it. | ||
Follow-Up Practice | Tomorrow when you come to school, I'll be looking to see if you | |
remember the steps of How to Greet Someone. I'll be greeting | ||
you and I hope that you'll remember to greet me in the right way. |