New Skillstreaming Set! – Program Book and Training DVD!
Skillstreaming is a prosocial learning program designed to help children and youth learn positive ways to have their needs met.
Skillstreaming the Elementary School Child employs a four-part training approach—modeling, role-playing, performance feedback, and generalization—to teach essential prosocial skills to elementary school students.
This book provides a complete description of the Skillstreaming program, with instructions for teaching 60 prosocial skills.
Adaptable for a variety of situations, Skillstreaming is ideal for small group instruction for children who have common social needs. Often used by counselors and others, the Skillstreaming program is structured to be a targeted, social-emotional learning intervention. Specific Skillstreaming skills can also be taught in whole class sessions by counselors.
The Skillstreaming program at every age level is designed to be easily implemented when conducted by a group leader who has experience in working with small groups. Training is also available for school districts and other organizations when Skillstreaming will be implemented through multiple practitioners.
Skill Cards, Student Workbooks and Skill Posters reinforce the key objectives in the Skillstreaming program.
NOTE:Â It is essential for successful implementation of this curriculum to first have the program book (Skillstreaming the Elementary School Child: A Guide for Teaching Prosocial Skills) before attempting to utilize other Skillstreaming products.
Learn more about the Elementary program book here.
Skillstreaming the Elementary School Child: People Skills: Doing ’em Right (Training DVD), Second Edition
This second edition video reinforces the ideas of the evidence-based Skillstreaming program while highlighting exercises for elementary-aged children.
This video teaches People Skills—ways we can get along better with our friends, our parents, and even teachers, too. The instructor guides kids through skills that will help them stay out of trouble and help them manage their feelings. Social behaviors are skills, and through the guided Skillstreaming steps, kids are taught to make better choices.
The kids in the video learn that new skills require following specific steps:
- Knowing what to do (the Steps to the Skill)
- How to do it (watching a Model)
- Trying it out (Role Play), and
- Finding out how well you did and what could make it better (Feedback), and (Practice).
In People Skills: Doing ‘em Right, the instructor breaks down how the skill steps should be followed in order. Everyone role-plays the skill in a real-life situation. The role play is most effective for learning if it appears as close to real life as possible. The purpose of the role play is for the main actor to be successful in following the skill steps (practice of the positive).
Adaptable for a variety of situations, Skillstreaming is ideal for small group instruction for children who have common social needs. Often used by counselors and teachers, the Skillstreaming program is structured to be a targeted, social-emotional learning intervention.
As showcased in the video, the instructor utilizes Skill Cards, Student Workbooks, and Skill Posters to reinforce the key objectives in the Skillstreaming program.
Video running time: Approximately 22 minutes.
Shown below is episode two of Prosocially Yours, a podcast produced by Research Press. In this episode, host Elizabeth Hess interviews educator and author, Dr. Ellen McGinnis, about the widely-acclaimed Skillstreaming program.
