Michelle Garcia Winner

Pamela Crooke

You Are a Social Detective: Explaining Social Thinking to Kids.

Explaining Social Thinking to Kids

You are a Social Detective!

Socially Curious and  Curiously Social: A Social Thinking Guidebook for Bright Teens and Young Adults

"A Guidebook for Understanding and Navigating the Social Complexities of the Workplace"--Cover.

Why Should I Care?

Social Thinking at Work

Illustrated stories are a mainstay for young children and provide both visual and narrative clues for basic problem-solving development. Storybooks enhance understanding of basic concepts, encourage engagement, and build critical thinking skills. They are also the foundation for building literacy skills, inferencing, and expose learners to perspective taking, specifically thoughts and feelings, through the words and actions of the story characters. Let's Solve It! Step-by-Step Problem Solving with Kids, Storybook 2 is part of a series that contains a another storybook and a teaching guide. (The ebooks are sold separately. The print books are sold as a set.) Storybook 2 includes ten story pairs, which can be introduced in any order. Each story pair begins with a Let’s Solve It! version, color-coded in orange, where characters encounter an everyday problem (or dilemma). That story is immediately followed by the We Solved It! version of the same story, color-coded in blue, where the same character figures out how to avoid, or even solve, the problem in order to meet their own and/or the group’s social goals. Students can compare two versions of the same scenario to see how different choices and perspectives can play out. STORYBOOK 2 Story 11: Recess is Over Story 12: Bedtime Story 13: Teaching Time Story 14: Getting Ready for Bed Story 15: The Aquarium Story 16: Choosing a Topic Story 17: After School Free Time Story 18: Playing on the Swings Story 19: Imagining and Playing Together Story 20: Choosing a Game To facilitate teaching, a Let's Solve It! Teaching Guide (available as a separate ebook) includes corresponding Let's Solve It! (LSI) and We Solved It! (WSI) fully downloadable problem-solving templates to help guide discussions. An additional 10 story pairs (available as a separate ebook) can be found in Let's Solve It! Step-by-Step Problem Solving with Kids, Storybook 1.

Let's Solve It! Step-by-Step Problem Solving with Kids, Storybook 2

Storybooks for Teaching Problem Solving Illustrated stories are a mainstay for young children and provide both visual and narrative clues for basic problem-solving development. Storybooks enhance understanding of basic concepts, encourage engagement, and build critical thinking skills. They are also the foundation for building literacy skills, inferencing, and expose learners to perspective taking, specifically thoughts and feelings, through the words and actions of the story characters. Let's Solve It! Step-by-Step Problem Solving with Kids, Storybook 1 is part of a series that contains a second storybook and a teaching guide. (The ebooks are sold separately. The print books are sold as a set.) Storybook 1 includes ten story pairs, which can be introduced in any order. Each story pair begins with a Let’s Solve It! version, color-coded in orange, where characters encounter an everyday problem (or dilemma). That story is immediately followed by the We Solved It! version of the same story, color-coded in blue, where the same character figures out how to avoid, or even solve, the problem in order to meet their own and/or the group’s social goals. Students can compare two versions of the same scenario to see how different choices and perspectives can play out. STORYBOOK 1 Story 1: Spelling Lesson Story 2: Homework Story 3: Partner Work Story 4: Family Dinner Story 5: Art Class Story 6: Playing a Game Story 7: Story Time Story 8: Shopping with Mom Story 9: Show and Tell Story 10: Visiting the Doctor’s Office To facilitate teaching, a Let's Solve It! Teaching Guide (available as a separate ebook) includes corresponding Let's Solve It! (LSI) and We Solved It! (WSI) fully downloadable problem-solving templates to help guide discussions. An additional 10 story pairs (available as a separate ebook) can be found in Let's Solve It! Step-by-Step Problem Solving with Kids, Storybook 2.

Let's Solve It! Step-by-Step Problem Solving with Kids, Storybook 1

This teaching guide is a companion to Let's Solve It! Step-by-Step Problem Solving with Kids, Storybook 1 and 2 (each of which are sold as separate ebooks). The teaching guide includes corresponding Let's Solve It! (LSI) and We Solved It! (WSI) fully downloadable problem-solving templates to help guide discussions and teaching of the 20 story pairs included in Storybook 1 and 2. Complete the LIS problem solving template after reading the LSI version of the story, then complete the WSI problem-solving template after reading the WSI version to discuss how the same social problem was avoided or solved and how various actions and responses impacted different characters' thoughts and feelings. While its importance is often overlooked, the role of self-regulatory social problem solving is a cornerstone of academic and career success. By working through the templates together after reading each story, students benefit by having a clear, step-by-step systematic way to make sense of problems in context. The templates explore problem solving by asking questions that engage self-awareness, situational awareness, interpretation of what is happening, understanding of a person’s options to decide what to do or say or not do or say, and then responding in the manner that encourages their desired outcome. Ultimately, students learn how we are all part of socially responsive community; that what we all do and say impacts those around us. Downloadables: What’s included? To make teaching easier, all the LSI/WSI Problem-Solving Templates for 20 Story Pairs are available for download on a hidden landing page. The link to this page is included within the Teaching Guide ebook. A Possible Solution Key (for Story Pair templates) includes one possible solution to each of the steps on the LSI/WSI templates for each of the 20 story pairs. A blank line is also included for generating your own solution based on selecting a different character for each story. BONUS! Also included are LSI/WSI General Use Problem-Solving Templates for everyday scenarios, adaptations, individualized teaching, and extension ideas.

Let's Solve It! Step-by-Step Problem Solving with Kids, Teaching Guide

The social mind... It's always on the job, even when you're off the job! Most people are born with an intuitive sense of the social world that allows them to naturally be aware of social expectations and feeds them the information they need to follow the social code. But not everyone is born with intuitive social understanding. Social learning differences, difficulties, or disabilities can be especially challenging in the workplace, where it’s assumed employees understand not only how to do their job but how to effectively work in a group, understand the hidden rules of office etiquette and office politics, and build and maintain solid professional relationships with others. The updated, 2nd edition of this 200+ page book is a primer about the social mind in the workplace, but the concepts and strategies are equally applicable in all areas of life. This volume includes many important updates to descriptive language to teach basic concepts. It’s largely based on the authors’ years of clinical experience working with adults who struggle socially who may or may not have a specific diagnosis. Many are highly intelligent and skilled employees who find it difficult to decipher the often-nuanced social underpinnings that are part of daily life, on or off the job. We all want to be appreciated for who we are and how we contribute, but if our messages are communicated in a way where others feel confused or hurt, then the good intention underlying the message is lost. As a result, it’s often tough for these individuals to build the relationships and reputation necessary to excel in the workplace, regardless of their expertise or how hard they work. This book is also a good way for neurotypical employers and employees to better understand the perspectives of their Neurodivergent coworkers, as well as show empathy and sensitivity for the difficult social learning process. Given years of feedback from our clients, adults with social learning differences, difficulties or disabilities often need information about social emotional relationships broken down and explained in a way that can help them build skills and understanding, one step at a time. This book does just that—it is a constructive and detailed guide to help adults learn how to do the “social dance” to build stronger relationships at work and beyond. This book is also a good primer for neurotypical employers/employees or HR departments to read about the experiences and perspectives of Neurodivergent coworkers, and perhaps develop empathy for the complexity of the bi-directional social learning process. It provides practical strategies for how to effectively work in a group, understand the hidden rules of the social world—including workplace etiquette and politics—and build relationships. It also encourages employees to self-advocate when needed. Powerful, Practical Strategies Social Thinking at Work contains easily accessible information about core concepts that describe how we think about our own and others’ thoughts and emotions, actions and reactions, intentions, and motives. In it you’ll learn to become a stronger social observer and use strategies that increase your social competencies. Chapters address: <ul> The social mind, social intelligence, and how social thinking is different from social skills The role of our emotions and social memory in office interactions The hidden rules or expectations and social memory in various types of specific office situations Giving compliments, asking for help, and apologizing Seven core tenets of perspective taking and understanding others' points of view Exploring the Social-Emotional Chain Reaction The four steps of communication Indirect communication: reading between the lines Belonging: workplace adaptations vs. conformity vs. teamwork and networking The office hierarchy, friendships, romantic relationships, bullying, and more </ul>

Strategies for Understanding and Navigating the Workplace

Social Thinking at Work, 2nd Edition

The social world is a big place, and the information can feel overwhelming at first. This two-set collection of 26 core practical frameworks is a powerhouse of visual teaching tools that includes the most important conceptual and treatment frameworks within the Social Thinking Methodology. Each framework provides a blueprint or visual support related to one specific aspect within the complex social world, in addition to high-level, basic instruction. The collection includes a broad array of frameworks that range from assessing learners’ needs to breaking down social communication, friendship, anxiety management, being with others, and many more to make the implicit explicit for social emotional learning. Core Practical Treatment Frameworks: Set 1 contains our most popular and helpful core tools with two types of frameworks. · Seven conceptual frameworks provide information specifically for interventionists to help them explore the social emotional assessment and treatment needs of specific individuals. These can be used during student study team meetings, IEP meetings, and to guide interventionists’ exploration of individuals’ social emotional development and treatment needs during the assessment process. · Six treatment frameworks help get started teaching core social emotional concepts directly to social learners: exploring emotions, size of the problem, and situation-based social expectations. 7 Conceptual Frameworks · 3 Aspects of Social Learning · The ILAUGH Model of Social Cognition · Social Thinking-Social Learning Tree · Social Thinking-Social Competency Model · Social Thinking Connected Frameworks · Building Blocks for Social Development of Young Children · Group Collaboration, Play and Problem Solving Scale (GPS) for Early Learners 6 Treatment Frameworks · Core Social Thinking Vocabulary · Basic Feelings & Emotions Scale · Size of the Problem and Size of the Reaction Thermometer · Social Emotional Chain Reaction · Social Behavior Map-General Observation (SBM-GO) · Social Behavior Map-GO “Lining Up to Leave the Classroom (Filled-in Template) Each framework has a graphic front and narrative back side. The front side provides a visual framework for use in team meetings with fellow interventionists or for use with students. The back side details the purpose of the framework along with instructions for using the framework, recommended age ranges, examples of how the information can guide teaching to foster development of social competencies, and recommendations for free articles and webinars, connections to other frameworks in the collection, and suggested books, online training courses and livestream events related to the concept. The majority of frameworks were first presented in print products published by Think Social Publishing, Inc., and/or in webinars, articles, On Demand courses, and conference/livestream events that can be found on the Social Thinking website. We strongly urge interventionists to explore these source products for deeper instruction, examples, and learning for using the frameworks in practice.

13 Visual Teaching Scaffolds to Assess Student Social Emotional Needs and Get Started Teaching

Core Practical Treatment Frameworks: Set 1

The social world is a big, complicated place! We are all social detectives as we observe, gather, and make sense of the clues within different social contexts (settings, situations, and the people in them) to figure out the hidden rules for expected behaviors. This leads us toward understanding how we each feel and think about others in a situation and how we choose to respond to each other’s actions and reactions. We are good Social Detectives when we use our eyes, ears, hearts, and brains to figure out what others are planning to do next or are presently doing and what they mean by their words and actions. This revised, expanded 2nd edition of the awarding-winning storybook teaches from the social learner’s perspective about the power of observation, reading context, and interpreting clues before choosing how to respond in ways that meet their social goals. A new structured approach to observation, new illustrations reflecting a broader range of inclusion and diversity in characters, practice pages and activities for deeper learning, specific teaching tips, and a glossary of Social Thinking Vocabulary and concepts are just some of the new material you’ll find inside. This is the first book in the Superflex® series. It guides readers on a journey of discovery where they can: · Learn formulas for gathering clues by observing a setting, situation, and people in it · Be empowered to figure out how the social world works through their own detective lens · Learn to identify feelings and emotions and connect them to behaviors · Understand that all feelings are okay, even uncomfortable ones, and we can still learn and grow · Get support from emojis and special word banks · Find core Social Thinking® Vocabulary words highlighted throughout to support and strengthen key learning concepts · Have numerous opportunities to make smart guesses about hidden social rules in various situations · See examples and tips for school, home, and community life · Celebrate how all of us are social observers who are affected by others’ actions and reactions

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