Reinforce the Skills
STEPS TO RESPECT Group-Joining Activity
Many of the STEPS TO RESPECT success stories we hear are from educators who have found creative ways to support student learning and skill practice. Here's an activity to help integrate STEPS TO RESPECT concepts into your classroom curriculum.
Academic Connection: The Arts
Curriculum Concept: Joining a group activity can be challenging.
Students who are already part of a group activity can use strategies to help new participants join.
- Hold a classroom discussion about the ways students can encourage and accept others who wish to join group activities. Have students brainstorm a list of ideas about how to encourage someone else to join a group activity.
- Next, have students work in small groups. Ask each group to choose an art form-such as visual arts, music, drama, or dance-to communicate their ideas and feelings about how to help others join a group activity. Groups may create a poster, make a voice recording of suggestions, videotape a skit, make up a song, perform a live skit, and so on.
- Schedule a time later in the week for students to perform or exhibit their work, and build in discussion time to reflect on each piece. You may also consider having students perform or exhibit their work outside of the classroom, for example, during a school assembly.