Courtney,
Your topic was interesting and
engaging. I never really knew what the
term SCLC, I now know that it stands for Social Communication Learning
Challenges. After reading further I came
to realize that I have many kids in my classroom that suffers with social
communication. Some of the challenges
that these students face are:
-Adapting
in a social situation by struggling with the thoughts, emotions, and needs of
those with whom they interact.
-Conative
skills will be the skills students with SCLC will struggle with the most.
Your paper was well written and very
informative. It was organized so that I
was able to easily navigate to explore answers for the questions that I had in
addition to the discussion questions.
The headings throughout your paper were helpful and broke the
information up so that it was easy to read.
The connection to Social Thinking was key
in stating that in
simple terms it is teaching the thinking behind the social skill. Social thinking should be taught to kids with
social learning challenges not as an additional school subject, but as a core
instructional element that impacts each moment of the school day.
I
learned that there are benefits and challenges to implementing this, they are
as follows:
-Benefits:
It is essential that we understand the perspective of other’s around us. This also means that we need to take into
consideration that perspective and be able to adapt our response accordingly
-Challenges:
Time, it’s not a quick fix, vocabulary, embedding terminology throughout the
school day, and the lack of social skills will negatively every relationship
that they try to have.
The Power-point flowed nicely with your
paper and honed in on the key points. I
especially liked the ILAUGH
framework in
teaching problem solving as well as effective communication.
I= Initiating novel
activities
L= Listening actively
A= Abstracting and
inferencing
U= Understanding
perspective
G= Gestalt: the big
picture
H= Humor and human
relatedness (Winner, 2000, p.14)
Much
like other Positive Behavior Supports, a lot of time is required to put this
support in place. A few years ago I
taught in a Public Charter school on the East side of Youngstown. We used the acronym ARMOR, this was
recognized school-wide as a behavioral system throughout the school in all
levels.
A= Always listening
actively
R= Respectful at all
times
M= My body belongs to me
O= Our community is
organized and clean
R= Ready to learn
I found it beneficial to work in a place
where all of the staff used the same language.
I do believe that it somewhat reduced the negative behavior when
teachers were consistent about implementing this plan.
In my classroom now we use behavior charts
to monitor progress as well as the “Give
Me Five” rules. We only have five
simple classroom rules: Eyes watching, ears listening, head thinking, hands
still, mouth quiet. Students will move
up or down the chart based on their behavior and if they are following the
rules. Often times we have to deal with
our socially backwards students that feel that they’ve done nothing wrong to
deserve punishment. We handle them with
kid gloves to de-escalate the child and make them understand what they’ve done
wrong through a brief mediation.
You have a variety of helpful resources to
gain more information on this topic.
Thank you for bringing SCLC to life through your paper and PowerPoint. I feel that I have a better understanding for
what these kids are going through and how important it is not to leave this children
behind. It is very important to tackle
their social issues with research based evidence in order for them to be able
to function within society. It is
partially up to the teachers to make this social connection happen for the sake
of the child’s present and future relationships.
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