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Enhancing Social Interactions: Environmental Strategies in the Classroom

Learn the importance and techniques of promoting positive social interaction through environmental strategies in the classroom. Discover methods such as group composition changes, activity adaptations, and material enhancements for building interaction skills.

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Enhancing Social Interactions: Environmental Strategies in the Classroom

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  1. WWB Training Kit #6 Using Environmental Strategies to Promote Positive Social Interactions

  2. Why is it important to promote positive social interaction?

  3. Environmental strategies to promote positive social interactions • Focus on environmental strategies • Environmental strategies are changes and adaptations that can be made to a classroom’s environment to encourage positive social interaction between children

  4. Changing and adapting group composition • Group children according to their characteristics • Consider the number of children in each group

  5. Changing and adapting activities • Limit the number of centers • Have motivating activities

  6. Changing and adapting materials • Use novel materials/rotate toys • Provide social toys • Suggest new ideas for engaging with the materials

  7. Additional Resources • Odom, S. L., McConnell, S. R., Ostrosky, M., Peterson, C., Skellenger, A., Spicuzza, R., Chandler, L. K., & McEvoy, M. A. (1997).Play time, social time: Organizing your classroom to build interaction skills. Minneapolis: Institute on Community Integration,University of Minnesota. [The curriculum can be ordered at: http://ici.umn.edu/products/curricula.html.] • Sandall, S., McLean, M. E., & Smith, B. J. (2000). DEC recommended practices in early intervention/early childhood special education. Longmont, CO: Sopris West.

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