Social-Emotional Curriculum
The following information is taken from Skinner North's website:
At Skinner North, teachers use two programs to lead their class. Responsive Classroom is a teaching method that emphasizes social, emotional, and academic growth in a strong and safe school community. Second Step curriculum is a classroom-based, social-skills program for children 4 to 14 years of age that teaches socio-emotional skills aimed at reducing impulsive and aggressive behavior while increasing social competence.
Responsive Classroom
The Responsive Classroom is a teaching approach that emphasizes social, emotional, and academic growth in a strong and safe school community. Developed by classroom teachers in 1981 and continually refined to meet schools’ needs, the approach consists of practical strategies for helping children build academic and social-emotional competencies day in and day out. In urban, suburban, and rural settings nationwide, educators using Responsive Classroom strategies report increased student engagement and academic progress, along with fewer discipline problems. The Responsive
Classroom approach is informed by the work of educational theorists and the experiences of exemplary classroom teachers.
Seven Principles guide this approach:
Second Step Curriculum
Second Step is a classroom-based social-skills program for children 4 to 14 years of age that teaches socio-emotional skills aimed at reducing impulsive and aggressive behavior while increasing social competence. The program builds on cognitive behavioral intervention models integrated with social learning theory, empathy research, and social information-processing theories. The program consists of in-school curricula, parent training, and skill development.
Second Step teaches children to identify and understand their own and others' emotions, reduce impulsiveness and choose positive goals, and manage their emotional reactions and decision-making process when emotionally aroused.
Each set of lessons covers empathy, impulse control, and anger management in developmentally and age-appropriate ways. Group decision making, modeling, coaching, and practice are demonstrated in the Second Step lessons using interpersonal situations presented in photos or video format.
Support at School
Besides teachers that are trained in both Responsive Classroom and Second Step methods, Skinner North offers a comprehensive, preventative School Counseling Program that is modeled after the American School Counseling National Model addressing social/emotional, academic and career domains. Students can receive direct school counseling services from our Counselor, Mrs. Jacobson, through a variety of ways:
At Skinner North, teachers use two programs to lead their class. Responsive Classroom is a teaching method that emphasizes social, emotional, and academic growth in a strong and safe school community. Second Step curriculum is a classroom-based, social-skills program for children 4 to 14 years of age that teaches socio-emotional skills aimed at reducing impulsive and aggressive behavior while increasing social competence.
Responsive Classroom
The Responsive Classroom is a teaching approach that emphasizes social, emotional, and academic growth in a strong and safe school community. Developed by classroom teachers in 1981 and continually refined to meet schools’ needs, the approach consists of practical strategies for helping children build academic and social-emotional competencies day in and day out. In urban, suburban, and rural settings nationwide, educators using Responsive Classroom strategies report increased student engagement and academic progress, along with fewer discipline problems. The Responsive
Classroom approach is informed by the work of educational theorists and the experiences of exemplary classroom teachers.
Seven Principles guide this approach:
- The social curriculum is as important as the academic curriculum.
- How children learn is as important as what they learn: process and content go hand in hand.
- The greatest cognitive growth occurs through social interaction.
- To succeed, academically and socially, children need a set of social skills: cooperation, assertion, responsibility, empathy, and self-control (C.A.R.E.S).
- Knowing the children we teach, individually, culturally, and developmentally, is as important as knowing the content we teach.
- Knowing the families of the children we teach and working with them as partners is essential to children’s education.
- How the adults at school work together is as important as their individual competence. Lasting change begins with the adult community.
Second Step Curriculum
Second Step is a classroom-based social-skills program for children 4 to 14 years of age that teaches socio-emotional skills aimed at reducing impulsive and aggressive behavior while increasing social competence. The program builds on cognitive behavioral intervention models integrated with social learning theory, empathy research, and social information-processing theories. The program consists of in-school curricula, parent training, and skill development.
Second Step teaches children to identify and understand their own and others' emotions, reduce impulsiveness and choose positive goals, and manage their emotional reactions and decision-making process when emotionally aroused.
Each set of lessons covers empathy, impulse control, and anger management in developmentally and age-appropriate ways. Group decision making, modeling, coaching, and practice are demonstrated in the Second Step lessons using interpersonal situations presented in photos or video format.
Support at School
Besides teachers that are trained in both Responsive Classroom and Second Step methods, Skinner North offers a comprehensive, preventative School Counseling Program that is modeled after the American School Counseling National Model addressing social/emotional, academic and career domains. Students can receive direct school counseling services from our Counselor, Mrs. Jacobson, through a variety of ways:
- Classroom Guidance lessons
- Small Group Counseling
- Individual Counseling