Skillstreaming The Elementary School Child

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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.

NOTE: 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.

The scope of the Skillstreaming program was initially used as a strategy to remediate behavioral skill deficits in select groups of children. It is especially effective when combined with the daily behavioral practice of Lesson Plans and Activities.

Chapters on effective Skillstreaming arrangements, Skillstreaming teaching procedures, refining skill use, teaching for skill generalization, managing behavior problems, Skillstreaming in the school context, and more.

Skill outlines are handy one-page summaries for each skill, including skill steps, guidelines for skill instruction, and suggested situations for modeling displays. Homework reports list skill steps and guide students in practicing the skills and evaluating skill use outside the Skillstreaming group.

The highly acclaimed approach developed by Dr. Arnold P. Goldstein and colleagues includes reproducible skill outlines, skill homework reports, and program forms. Reproducible forms and handouts for this title are available on our downloads page.

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 social-emotional Skillstreaming program.

Chapters on effective Skillstreaming arrangements, Skillstreaming teaching procedures, refining skill use, teaching for skill generalisation, managing behaviour problems, Skillstreaming in the school context, and more.

Skill outlines are handy one-page summaries for each skill, including skill steps, guidelines for skill instruction, and suggested situations for modelling displays. Homework reports list skill steps and guide students in practising the skills and evaluating skill use outside the Skillstreaming group.

This widely acclaimed approach developed by Dr. Arnold P. Goldstein and colleagues, comes in a large (US letter) format with reproducible skill outlines, skill homework reports, and program forms. Reproducible forms and handouts for this title are available from a downloads page.

"The third edition of the Skillstreaming series is my first choice as the go-to resource for a research-based, user-friendly, and level social skills curriculum for professionals in all settings serving children and youth."
- Sheldon Braaten, PhD, Founder and Executive Director, Behavior Institute for Children and Adolescents

"There are a multitude of social skills programs on the market. . . . This program cuts out the gimmicks, and hammers home what is really needed: Identify the skill that is missing in the student, model it for the student, role-play it with the student, and provide opportunities for them to generalize it to real life situations."
- Nan Gordon, Communiqu

This DVD features a Skillstreaming session in progress in which group leaders model a skill; and then students role play the skill, receive feedback from other group members, and choose homework assignments. The on-screen narrator helps student viewers understand what is expected in the group, points out the many benefits of using the skills, and motivates students to become more actively involved in the group.

In order to implement this training program, you will need Skillstreaming the Elementary School Child: A Guide for Teaching Prosocial Skills, which contains the complete skills curriculum and necessary training procedures.

Ellen McGinnis, PhD, holds degrees in elementary education, special education, and school administration. She has taught elementary and secondary students in the public schools and has served as special education consultant in both public and hospital schools, school principal, special education director, executive director of student support services, and a program consultant at the state level. The author of numerous articles on identifying and teaching youth with emotional/behavioral disorders, she collaborated with Dr. Arnold P. Goldstein on early Skillstreaming books and is author of the most recently released editions of Skillstreaming in Early Childhood, Skillstreaming the Elementary School Child, and Skillstreaming the Adolescent. She is also co-author with Rich Simpson, PhD, of Skillstreaming Children and Youth with High-Functioning Autism.

This widely-acclaimed approach developed by the late Dr. Arnold P. Goldstein and colleagues is now in a larger format with reproducible skill outlines, skill homework reports, and program forms. Now includes forms CD. 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. Chapters on effective Skillstreaming arrangements, Skillstreaming teaching procedures, refining skill use, teaching for skill generalization, managing behavior problems, Skillstreaming in the school context, and more. Skill outlines are handy one-page summaries for each skill, including skill steps, guidelines for skill instruction, and suggested situations for modeling displays. Homework reports list skill steps and guide students in practicing the skills and evaluating skill use outside the Skillstreaming group.

This brightly colored 22 piece wooden block set consists of six stackable disks. Included are a set of 48 picture cards which depict diagrams of different objects that can be constructed with the blocks. Children can practice sequential thinking & problem solving skills with the picture cards. Promotes creativity too!

The purpose was to investigate the additive effects of Social Skills Training (SST) to Check-in/Check-out (CICO) on academic engagement of students. Participants were 3 elementary students who exhibited disruptive behavior who were nominated by teachers. The two dependent variables were the level of Appropriately Engaged Behavior (AEB) of the student as well as the student's behavior ratings indicated by teacher responses on the Daily Behavior Report Card (DBRC) with and without SST. A noncurrent multiple baseline across students design was used to examine both dependent variables. Goldstein and McGinnis' program, Skillstreaming the Elementary School Child, was used during SST. The current study assessed whether the combination of CICO and SST was more effective than CICO in increasing AEB. All three students demonstrated increases in AEB during CICO. However, when CICO/SST was implemented, all three students did not demonstrate additional increases in AEB compared to CICO. In addition, all three students' teacher-rated performance on the DBRC remained variable during intervention phases. Teachers found both Tier 2 interventions as acceptable; however, the majority of teachers indicated that both interventions did not positively affect students ' classroom behavior. Theses results support the use of CICO in elementary school students.