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WETA-TV And The Importance Of Teaching Social Skills

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Many schools focus solely on academics that they forget the social aspect, which many kids lack. As well, it is imperative to teach children with a learning disability different social skills strategies to help to get through school and life. Students who have a learning disability may struggle with social skills, and that will be evident in the school. Teaching children that are classified as learning disabled will benefit from learning different social skills strategies to learn about different ways of communicating and learn how to handle certain situations that may occur to them. This paper will examine a video called “Last one Picked…First one Picked on” (1994), by Richard Lavoie and produced by WETA-TV and it will discuss the different …show more content…

One of the strategies that Richard Lavoie discusses is called direct instruction on the hidden curriculum. The hidden curriculum is an unwritten, unspoken rules of the school. The hidden curriculum may have to deal with how to get from place to place in the school, how to interact in the cafeteria or classroom, and understanding what role everyone has at the school. Many students who are classified with a learning disability may not notice this hidden curriculum. Therefore, it is critical to teach students with a learning disability the hidden curriculum to help them socially. A teacher needs to directly teach the hidden curriculum to these students because they may not notice or realize the hidden curriculum themselves unless it is explained to them. By teaching students with a learning disability the hidden curriculum, it will allow them to feel a part of the community at school and not …show more content…

It is important to teach them the hidden curriculum so they can fit in and don’t feel different from everyone else in the school. I would employ this in my future classroom because I don’t want any of my students to feel left out or different in the school, so I think it is important to teach them the hidden curriculum, so they know what is going on in their school. It teaches them how to socially act in school and by teaching them the hidden curriculum, it will allow them to fit it and feel like a part of the community at school. The other strategy, questioning, is a great strategy that I believe every student, with a disability or not, should learn how to question because every child will come in contact in at least one social interaction per day. By asking questions, it will keep the conversation going, and it will allow students to learn more about each other. They will need to use questioning in academics. I like how this strategy shows them how to use questioning in various of social interaction, and then they could teach them how to question in academics. I would employ this strategy in my future classroom because questioning is the way a person gains information and knowledge, so it is vital to teach them this skill to teach them how to have a conversation with someone using questions to get information about them in a polite way. I also

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