Social Skills - Social Skills - Understanding Others Reference Sheet

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Welcome to my Understanding Others Reference Sheet. Check out this excerpt from the training video I did for the New York City Department of Education. So, I want to tell you what made me create the next activity called Understanding Others. One day about a year ago I was driving home from work and I was thinking about how, you know, I'm constantly asking my students questions about hypotheticals or sometimes real-life situations to work on perspective taking: well how do you think the person felt in this situation? Or let's say even in literature, why did the character say that? Why would they have done that? What was their motivation? How did they feel? And I was driving home thinking about how much my students struggle to answer those questions, and I thought I should really help them out and give them a reference sheet for hypotheticals or discussing real life interactions of how people generally feel. So it has the top negative feelings in social interactions, like feeling rejected or excluded, having someone angry at you, someone thinking you're dumb, somebody disliking you. And the top positive feelings in interactions: feeling, for example, admired, feeling respected, feeling liked. And actions that you can do to make things better in social interactions. And the students then can use this reference sheet when we go over hypotheticals or talk about what happened in real life situations. And this activity also comes along with three different hypotheticals you can use. Thanks for reviewing my Understanding Others Reference Sheet. if you like what you've seen here, please click and subscribe to my channel. I’m not exactly sure what that means, but my web guy told me it's a thing!

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