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Building and Enhancing
New Skills and Literacies
across the Curriculum
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Social Literacy

 Social Literacy is a students' successful

performance and understanding of
social Skills, organizational skills, and
communication skills. It is the students'
ability to connect effectively. with those
around them.
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Social Literacy

 the development of social skills

to interact positively in a defined
environment. · It improves
students' positive behavior
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Social Skills

 Concerned itself with the

development of social skills,
knowledge, and positive human
values that enable human beings
to act positively and responsibly in
range of complex social settings.
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Social Skills

 It is the knowledge of how to behave

and treat other people in a way that
is morally upright , just and equitable,
with a view of promoting positive and
productive relations that are free
from unfair, prejudices, hate, and
discrimination.
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Morally upright

 – thoughts, speech, actions,

and motivations that adhere
to a standard of right and
wrong.
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Just

 Refers to speech, actions,

and behaviors that are in-line
with fixed standard of justice.
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Justice

 A system that promotes and

rewards good and at the
same time punishes
wrongdoing.
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Equitable

 Are the speech, actions,

behaviors, and decisions that
treat others fairly , regardless
of background or
circumstances.
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Social Skills

 Range from the ability to initiate,

maintain, and end a conversation
to reading social signals to more
complex skills such as solving
problems and resolving conflicts.
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Greeting

 Children develop relationship with them.

The first step in social interaction is
greeting someone.
 Words like “Hi!”, or “Hello”, or How are
you?
 Facial expression, tone of voice and
gestures.
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Initiating Conversation

 In order to initiate conversation, a

child must be able to initiate, maintain
and close conversation appropriately.
It requires good listening and
attention skills, ability to take turns
and probe for missing information.
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Understanding the Listener

 It is important to understand the

audience one is talking to. A socially
adept child quickly and unconsciously
identifies and categorizes his listener,
measures what he/she has planned to
say against the anticipated response
of the listener, and then proceeds.
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Emphatizing

 Empathy is more than perspective

taking; it means that one is able to feel
what the other person feels. It allows
one to really connect with other
people, other children often thinks of
children who lack empathy as mean,
unkind or self centered.
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Reading Social Cues

 Cues are the hints and signals

that guide us to the net thing tp
say or do. Social cues can be
verbal or nonverbal. Good
detectives pay very close
attention to nonverbal cues.
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Previewing or Planning

 Conversation also require that one

previews or thinks about what effect
the words or actions may have on
the listener before she says or does
them. If the impact will be negative,
one can adjust what she might say or
do.
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Apologizing

 Everyone makes social mistakes at one

time or another. A person with good
social skills is confident enough to make
a sincere apology for her error.
Apologizing is a sign of humble and
mature character where one commits
mistakes.
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The Role of Parents and Teachers in
Teaching Social Skills to Children

 Parents typically play the major

role in teaching children social
skills.
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The Role of Parents and Teachers in
Teaching Social Skills to Children

 Parents can directly teach

social skills by modelling, role
playing, and providing
opportunities for their child to
rehearse and practice new skills
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The Role of Parents and Teachers in
Teaching Social Skills to Children

 Professionals typically intervene

only when children are having
substantial social difficulty with
peers.
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The Role of Parents and Teachers in
Teaching Social Skills to Children

 School is the place where

children spend majority of their
time with peers.
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The Role of Parents and Teachers in
Teaching Social Skills to Children

 While teachers do not have to

teach a class social skills, they
can take advantage of evry
opportunity to help children
improve their social skills.
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The Role of Parents and Teachers in
Teaching Social Skills to Children

 They should be alert to teasing

and bullying and aaware of
children that are rejected or
ignored by peers.
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Social Skills to Children

 The modern age calls for young

professionals to develop situational
awareness and social intelligence in
both technological and traditional
communications to succeed I their
academic and career endeavor.
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Social Skills to Children

 Peers and schools play a

formative role on the social
skills development of children.