Activities, Games, and Lessons for Social Learning

"This book is a perfect guide for teaching social learning in a fun, collaborative, and simple way for people of all ages! It provides practical, realistic and useful guidance, as well as ease and utility for practitioners and teachers with the content and in the way the book is structured." -- Kimberly Mendenhall Brennan "It can be challenging for educators to find resources for students who struggle with social skills and self-regulation. This book is a good resource for those working with students with autism spectrum disorders." -- Karen Eastman, PhD Professor, Special Education "This book has everything you need to teach students with fun, engaging, hands on lessons and activities that will transform their social skills!" -- Renee Bernhardt "Teachers require a broad pedagogic skill base as they address the issue of educating the whole-child. This book provides a repertoire of practical, proven SE strategies that work in a variety of classrooms. It is an essential resource for hardworking teachers and educators." -- Dr Neil MacNeill, PhD. "This book provides accessible, ready-to-use lesson-plans with research links to build understanding and practice of key social emotional skills such as self-regulation, social communication, and perspective taking." -- Katie Aeschleman "The format of the book provides practical and realistic strategies by presenting a research base follow by explicit strategy presentation for each topic. The authors present the best of both worlds in providing brief theory/rationale while including techniques that can be used by a wide variety of child-serving professionals. It has a solid research base and the authors convey thorough knowledge of the subject matter, as well as real-world experience." -- Chris Grace "Teachers know that if we want students to be able to learn, we have to build a foundation of trust. This book is one of those foundational, handy books that combines research, implementation techniques, and activities that are easy to use. Every new teacher, as well as veteran teachers, need to have this in their hands." -- Jennifer Harper "Demystifying social learning through games is not only an effective and engaging strategy, it is paramount to supporting students in today's world of multifaceted communication. This book has a number of "ready-to-use" lesson plans that will provide explicit instructions and "learning-by-doing" activities." -- Carrie Carpenter