Reinforce the Skills
Now that your lessons are underway, it's time to look at ways to transfer program skills and concepts throughout your school or organization.
Learning new social and emotional skills takes practice, just like learning to play music or ride a bike. Reinforcing social and emotional skills and concepts throughout the school gives students more opportunities to practice applying the skills in new ways and in new situations. It also helps students make connections between the skills they are learning at school and how those skills apply to other areas of their lives.
Transfer of Learning Activities
Help students use their program skills and knowledge in creative and fun ways that will allow them to transfer the learning beyond the lessons.
SECOND STEP Program
Combine Academics with Social and Emotional Learning
How to Use Reinforcers to Encourage Good Behavior
Tips for Successful Role Plays
Creative Group and S
Using the Program for Crisis Situations
STEPS TO RESPECT Program
Coach Students to Reduce School Bullying
Group-joining Activities
Extension Activities
Extension activities offer new ways to teach the lesson and skills in the program. They help teachers sustain the program throughout the years.
SECOND STEP Program
- When Sophie Gets Angry—Really, Really Angry—emotion management
- Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry—problem solving and empathy
Preschool/Kindergarten
Grades 1 - 3
Grades 4 - 5
STEPS TO RESPECT Program
Literature extension activities:
- The Brand New Kid—kindness, respect, and tolerance
- The Thanksgiving Visitor—bullying
- Yang the Third and Her Impossible Family—emotion management