Doing Precision Teaching: How can I teach social skills?

Two ways:

1. Chart real life counts daily.

2. Create a practice session for skill and time and chart it daily. Both can be done at once.

An example: Greeting people warmly.

1) Real life count. Post a class list and have students go up and initial beside the name of each student who warmly greeted them that day. At the end of each day each student totals and charts the warm greeting marks they received.

2) Two minute practice session. Have your class form a circle around room perimeter. Start a timer and a student greets each class member in turn working around the circle. The greeting student shakes hands and makes eye contact until the greeted student signals that the handshake and eye contact were warm. The numbers of warm and cold greetings signaled by the greeted students per minute are charted for each greeter student that day. This, of course, requires honesty and cooperation of your students.