Second Step: Skills for Social and Academic Success
Unit 1: Skills for Learning
- Lesson 1: Being Respectful Learners
- Focusing your attention and listening help you be a better learner.
- Focusing your attention and listening show respect.
- Lesson 2: Using Self-Talk
- Self-talk means talking to yourself in a quiet voice or in your head.
- Self-talk can help you focus, stay on task, and handle distractions.
- Lesson 3: Being Assertive
- Being assertive means asking for what you want or need in a calm and firm voice.
- Being assertive is a respectful way to get what you want or need.
- Being assertive means asking for what you want or need in a calm and firm voice.
- Lesson 4: Planning to Learn
- Making a plan can help you be a better learner.
- A plan is good if the order makes sense, it's simple, and you can do it.
Unit 2: Empathy
- Lesson 5: Identifying Others' Feelings
- Looking for clues on a person's face or body and in the situations helps you notice and understand how that person is feeling.
- People can have different feelings about the same situation.
- All feelings are natural.
- Lesson 6: Understanding Perspectives
- People can have different feelings about the same situation, and their feelings can change.
- Empathy is feeling or understanding what someone else is feeling.
- Thinking about others' perspectives helps you have empathy for them.
- Lesson 7: Conflicting Feelings
- You can have conflicting feelings about a situation.
- Having empathy helps you notice when others' feelings are the same as or different from yours.
- Lesson 8: Accepting Differences
- Having empathy helps you understand and accept how others are the same as or different from you.
- Accepting and appreciating others' differences is respectful.
- Focusing attention on and listening to others can help you have empathy and show compassion.
- You can say kind words or do helpful things to show your compassion.
Lesson 10: Making Friends
- Focusing attention and listening to others help you make conversation.
- Making conversation helps you make friends and get along better with others.
Unit 3: Emotional Management
Lesson 11: Introducing Emotion Management
Lesson 11: Introducing Emotion Management
- When you feel strong feelings, it's hard to think clearly.
- Focusing your attention on your body gives you clues about how you're feeling. Thinking about your feelings helps the thinking part of your brain get back in control.
Lesson 12: Managing Test Anxiety
- Using a stop signal and naming your feeling are the first two Calming-Down Steps.
- You can use belly breathing to calm down.
- Calming down helps you handle accusations calmly and thoughtfully.
- It's important to take responsibility when you've made a mistake.
Lesson 14: Managing Disappointment
- Negative self-talk can make strong feelings even stronger.
- You can calm down by using positive self-talk.
- Setting a new goal and making a plan to achieve it are positive ways to handle disappointment.
Lesson 15: Managing Anger
- Everyone feels angry sometimes, but hurting other people's feelings or bodies is not okay.
- It's important to calm down angry feelings so you don't do something hurtful.
- Being assertive is a respectful way to get what you want or need.
Lesson 16: Managing Hurt Feelings
- Calming down when your feelings have been hurt can help you avoid jumping to conclusions.
- Thinking of other explanations and getting more information can help you avoid jumping to conclusions.
Unit 4: Problem Solving
Lesson 17: Solving Problems, Part 1
- Calming down helps you think so you can solve problems.
- Following steps can hep you solve problems.
- Saying the problem without blame is respectful.
Lesson 18: Solving Problems, Part 2
- Following steps can help you solve problems.
- Solutions to problems must be safe and respectful.
- Solutions can have positive or negative consequences.
Lesson 19: Solving Classroom Problems
- Calming down helps you think so you can solve problems.
- Following steps can help you solve problems.
- Getting along with others helps you be a better learner at school.
Lesson 20: Solving Peer-Exclusion Problems
- Following steps can help you solve problems.
- Being assertive is a safe and respectful solution to problems like being excluded.
- Excluding others is not nice or respectful.
- Calming down helps you think so you can solve problems.
- Following steps can help you solve problems.
- Being assertive can help you resist negative peer pressure.
Lesson 22: Reviewing Second Step Skills
- Using Second Step skills can help you be a better learner and get along with others.
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