3.1 - WHAT IS SOCIAL LITERACY?

Social Literacy

act and react positively and responsibly in a wide range of complex social settings

Social Literacy

range of social skills as well as the development of social knowledge to understand and interpret various social problems

Social Literacy

mediate their world as family members, workers, citizens, and lifelong learners.

social intelligence

ability to build relationships in any social environment.

social intelligence

social literacy, sometimes referred to as

Social Literacy

basic requirement for successfully preparing children in participating in the communities

Social Literacy

the use of technology opens more lines of interactions.

Effective communication

Conflict resolution

Active listening

Empathy

Relationship management

Respect

Problem-solving skills

Interpersonal skills

Types of Social Skills

Effective communication

the ability to communicate effectively and share thoughts and ideas with others through group conversations, discussion, etc.

Conflict resolution

ability to get to the source of the problem and find a workable solution by weighing both sides from those involved to reach reconciliation

Active listening

ability to pay close attention to a person in times of counselling, introspection, and consultation

Empathy

ability to understand and identify the feelings of students in times of difficulty and trouble

Relationship management

ability to maintain relationships and build key connections with other stakeholders for students’ development

Respect

knowing when to initiate communication and respond during interactions or even in times of heated arguments and confrontations

Problem-solving skills

involve seeking help, making effective decisions, and accepting consequences to arrive at better solutions

Interpersonal skills

includes the abilities of sharing, joining activities, asking for permission, and waiting for one’s turn

1. sharing

2. cooperating

3. listening

4. following directions

5. respecting personal space

6. making eye contact

7. using manners

7 important social skills for kids

Foundation Skills

Interaction Skills

Affective Skills

Foundation Skills

Categories of Social Skills

Foundation Skills

Basic social interaction

Interaction Skills

Skills needed to interact with others

Affective Skills

Skills needed for understanding oneself and others

Cognitive Skills

Skills needed to maintain more complex social interactions

Basic social interaction

Ability to maintain eye contact, maintain appropriate personal space, understand gestures and facial expressions

Skills needed to interact with others

Resolving conflicts, taking turns, learning how to begin and end conversations, determining appropriate topics for conversation, interacting with authority figures

Skills needed for understanding oneself and others

Identifying one's feelings, recognizing the feelings of others, demonstrating empathy, decoding body language

Skills needed to maintain more complex social interactions

Social perception, making choices, self—monitoring, understanding community norms, determining appropriate behavior for different social situations.

sustainable desirable attitudes and eliminating those undesirable ones

Social skills can be improved by focusing on ___ through modeling, role-playing, and performance feedback mechanisms.

Emotional intelligence

ability to perceive, interpret, demonstrate, control, evaluate, and use emotions to communicate with and relate to others effectively and constructively.

emotional quotient

EQ for

Emotional intelligence

ability to recognize, understand, and influence the emotions of others.

Peter Salovey and John Mayer

Emotional intelligence was first coined by

1990s

Emotional intelligence was first coined by Peter Salovey and John Mayer in the early

Daniel Goleman

Emotional intelligence was first coined by Peter Salovey and John Mayer in the early 1990s and later popularized by

better mental health, stronger social connections, and greater resilience

Studies suggest that persons with higher EQ tend to have

Self-awareness

Self-management

Social awareness

Relationship management

Four Key Skills

self-awareness

foundation of emotional intelligence

Self-management

control and redirect our emotions

Self-management

learning how to work with our emotions,

Social awareness

read the room, sense and understand the emotional needs of others,

Social awareness

key to building connections

apply our emotional understanding of the three other domains

socially relevant curriculum

Many schools already play a vital role in teaching these skills and educating children about the ability to abstract; to see the connectedness of living in a community, through a

Blogging

Class website

Video conferencing

Social networking sites

Teaching Social Literacy Through online:

Group projects and activities (cooperative/cooperative learning)

Peer-reviewing

Role playing

Field trips

Explicit instruction

Incidental teaching

Through literature and videos

Social skill autopsy approach

Use of social stories

Modelling manners

Assigning classroom jobs

Big Buddy System

Teaching Social Literacy In a face to face environment:

A person’s emotional life

Ethical use of knowledge

Presenting ethical dilemmas and societal challenges

A situation calling for compassion and implicit prosocial concept

Cross-group interactions

Schools can teach socio-emotional learning in the classroom time by involving: