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Sociometric Techniques- The quantitative study of interpersonal relationships in populations, especially the study and measurement of preferences.

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n peer assessment-students are asked to nominate or rate peers on several behavioral characteristics. Students hear or or read behavioral descriptions and then nominate or rate individuals according to the descriptions.=====

n A sociogram provides a visual record of the group’s social structure.
Instructional Games In Emotional Development

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n Personality Game-Board game with cards that have personal traits written on them, the player takes a card and if they think the card describes them they move forward and if the player doesn’t think applies but rest of group does then move back a space. =====

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n Passport Program-designed to help students learn the positive mental health concepts by developing self-acceptance, personal relationship skills, and problem solving and decision making strategies. =====

Behavioral Development Interventions

n Punishment-An effective classroom management plan, however, focuses on prevention or proactive strategies and minimizes the use of punishment.
Techniques For Managing Surface Behaviors (e.g. laughing, passing notes, talking out of turn, humming, and pencil tapping)

n //Antiseptic bouncing.//-the student can be removed from the classroom without punishment.
Improving Mood States

n Puppetry-puppets can help students experience different events and express feelings and emotions.
Naturalistic Observations

n Role-Play Assessment-students behavior in response to staged social interations(such as receiving criticism) and the students performance is recorded.
Emotional Development Interventions

Social Development Interventions

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n Conversation skills-using body language, greeting others, introducing oneself, applying active listening, answering questions, interrupting correctly, asking questions, saying good-bye, and conversing===== n Friendship skills-making friends, saying thank-you, giving compliments, accepting thanks, accepting compliments, joining group activities, starting activities with others, and giving help.

n Problem-solving skills-include negotiating, giving rationales, persuading, problem solving, getting help, and asking for feedback
Emotional Development Interventions

** Instructional Games in Social Development **

** Instructional Games in Emotional Development **

** Instructional Games in Behavioral Development **

**Question 1:** I feel that sharing is an important topic to teach to students. Sharing is used in so many different situations while in school but can also be used at home. When sharing they also learn other skills like communication and cooperation. I have worked with children that are terrible with sharing and when watching them with their siblings and how they didn't even share with them.


 * Question 2: **Having the students singing to start the day tells the students its time to focus and to pay attention to the teacher. Then the teacher has the students work in groups to help learn the morning activity. The songs that are sung help the students remember what they learn and the activities keep all the members in the group active and they are working on different skills that they don't even realize.
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 * Question 4: **Every person has their own reasoning for what something means. I like that the teacher has the students repeating what she is saying. Repetition is also a good way for a student to rememebr something. I believe that teaching critical thinking skills to the students at young age is appropriate and for what is being taught right now.

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What about this Scenario: Jeff is a student in Miss Erney’s class who lacks the ability to get along with his peers. Jeff’s inappropriate behavior includes taking toys and food from his classmates’ hands. On the playground, students try to avoid Jeff so that he does not take their things. When Miss Erney talked with Jeff about his inappropriate behavior, he refused to take responsibility and blamed his classmates for the problems. Recently, Jeff has withdrawn from the class, and he frequently can be found walking alone on the playground and after school. Miss Erney wants to help Jeff become more socially mature. ======

** 1. Discuss the use of sociometric techniques to assess social skills and related problems. How can Miss Erney use information from a sociogram to help Jeff? **
In order for Miss Erney to figure out what students think of Jeff she needs to have his classmate rate Jeff on his behaviors and why the students rated him as they did. She can then use the scores to figure out what techniques can be used to help Jeff get along with the other classmates in the classroom, at recess time, and after school.

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 * 4. Instructional games promote positive peer relations and enable the teacher to work on specific social behaviors. Create a game that Miss Erney can use to help promote Jeff’s social development. **======

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There are two types of life-space interviewing and the one that would fit Jeff the best is clinical exploitation of life events because it is more in-depth techinique in which the teacher helps the student to gain inisight into his behavior and change inappropriate ways of acting. This could be used at anytime to help Jeff realize what he is doing in the classroom, during recess time, and after school that causes students to stay away from him. When looking up more on life-space interview (LSI) there are worksheets that can be used to help him figure everything out. Reality therapy is aimed at helping gain more effective control over thier own lives. Individuals can also use it to improve their own effectiveness. This process has been proven effective in education, parenting, leadership, and management; it lends itself to any situtation where people need to learn how to satisfy their needs in responsible ways. This way could help Jeff realize what he is doing is causing students to stay away from him. He will also find out what hes doing so he can change it and start becoming closer to his classmates. ======