Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Social Skills Resources for Inclusive Mainstream Schools

Teachers - This could be the best thing you learn about today!

Finding quality and appropriate classroom resources for special needs students that assist with integration is a challenge for many schools.
Do you find you have
“Rarely enough time in a typical school week for the planning and collaboration
needed to make inclusion work well” ?

(Deborah McKnight – Director of Special Education, San Fransisco)

The solution is here at Hometrain!
We have developed a clever range of teaching games, designed to accompany the curriculum, help with problem behaviour and develop the skills of your teachers without spending valuable time away from the classroom.

Introducing ‘Hello’ and ‘How Are You?’
Our interactive computer games are designed for 1-1 teaching and for the whole class to play, talk about and learn.
There are 8 friendly boy and girl characters with fun games that explore different social scenarios. Each game has a video narrator who takes the children through different social scenarios,

Topics include:
Social skills – greetings, asking and answering questions, making friends, exploring emotions, expressing pain, what to do in social scenarios.
Games explore: behaviour in different social scenarios, learning about our bodies, identifying emotions and comprehension of the game or character.

Full printable teaching resources and parent information is included with each programme. Sending these home is a most effective way of demonstrating to parents your level of commitment to providing an inclusive service to their child.

Promoting good practice in your inclusive school:
When children learn how to initiate social communication within natural contexts – such as: home, community and school, they respond appropriately to the communications of others. From here, they can begin to develop positive relationships with others. Therefore, teaching communication and social skills should be a very high priority in an inclusive school.

With Hometrain products, establishing positive inclusion, behaviour and teaching social skills in the classroom is about to get a whole lot easier!

For more info go to: http://www.hometrain.ie/

Did you see our free printables?? - Christmas colouring pages are there too:

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