Friendship Reflection

Posted on March 19, 2008

Developing the understanding and skills of being a friend is such a challange for my students. Our school offers a lot of instruction in positive relationship building. We have the Second Step program going in every classroom done by the teacher. We have class council in every classroom. The guidance staff instruct the students in six week units on topics such as friendship, bullying,safety,we have opportunies given by the PTA etc.Our stduents do "participate" in all of these activities. But, even with all this my students do need special instruction in these areas. They are developmentally behind in all areas including friendship building. I do work on the IEP goals pertaining to socialization and communication issues but without peers included it isn't as effective as I'd like it to be. Sara