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WWB Training Kit #5

WWB Training Kit #5. Using Classroom Activities & Routines as Opportunities to Support Peer Interaction. Research has shown…. A strong relationship between low peer status in childhood and later problems in adolescence and adulthood. Who Is At-Risk?. Children with and without disabilities.

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WWB Training Kit #5

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  1. WWB Training Kit #5 Using Classroom Activities & Routines as Opportunities to Support Peer Interaction

  2. Research has shown… • A strong relationship between low peer status in childhood and later problems in adolescence and adulthood.

  3. Who Is At-Risk? • Children with and without disabilities. • Children may be • Withdrawn. • Hesitant to interact with peers. • Socially “aloof.” • Unsuccessful at attempts to interact.

  4. How Can We Support Peer Interactions? • Actively teaching social skills. • Planning around routines and activities. • Arranging the environment.

  5. Routines • Are activities and procedures that occur regularly • Often involve a series of responses • Preschool routines typically include: • Arrival time • Bathroom time • Cleanup time • Departure • Nap time • Snack time • Story time

  6. Supporting Peer Interactions Involves… • Careful planning around routines and activities • Arranging the environment to support peer interaction • Implementing strategies such as peer-mediated interventions • Adult cueing and prompting • Use of reinforcement

  7. Opportunities to Support Peer Interaction… • Allow children to practice emerging social skills • Assist children in acquiring targeted social skills more often and more rapidly • Promote generalization of targeted social skills to other social settings

  8. Activity Pair-Think-Share • Pair with a partner • Think about what adults do with and for children during preschool routines. • Complete the chart. • Share your thoughts with large group

  9. Activity

  10. Big Benefits/Low Cost! • Little effort is necessary to create these opportunities. • It’s convenient for adults to help with these jobs.

  11. Feedback • Children need to know what is expected of them. • It’s important to praise children for efforts to interact with peers. • Catch them being good!

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