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Powerful Paraprofessionals Creating Positive Relationships

Deborah C. Lickey Project Coordinator: Virginia ParaprofessionalEarly Childhood Training Project

AgendaWho’s Here?The Multiple Opportunities for

Paraprofessionals to Promote Positive Relationships

Accessing the CSEFEL Materials and Trainings to Further Professional Development

Identifying the Importance of Teaching Social Emotional Skills: Why, When, What, and How

Developing Friendship Skills

Participant Objectives

• Participants will be able to identify the unique opportunities that Paraprofessionals encounter throughout their day to influence social-emotional skills.

• Participants will be able to use the CSEFEL website for additional information regarding social-emotional development

• Participants will be able to discuss why it is important to be more intentional about teaching social emotional skills.

• Participants will be able to identify strategies for supporting the development of friendship skills.

Who is being Represented in our group today?

Paraprofessionals In Early Childhood? In Elementary School? In Special Education?

Teachers?

Directors/ Administrators?

Parents?

Others?

Unique Opportunities for Paraprofessionals to Teach Social

Skills throughout the day…Snack timeOutsideMore Ideas…

Why might these opportunities be different for Para-professionals vs Teacher point of view and focus?

The CSEFEL Model: A Comprehensive Tool to Teach

Multiple Social Emotional Skills

http://csefel.vanderbilt.edu/index.html

CSEFEL Modules offer multiple resources for teaching social skills

Tucker Turtle Takes Time to Tuck and

ThinkA scripted story to assist with teaching

the “Turtle Technique”By Rochelle Lentini, University of South Florida

Updated 2007Created using pictures from Microsoft Clipart® and Webster-Stratton, C. (1991). The teachers and children videotape series: Dina dinosaur school.

Seattle, WA: The Incredible Years.

•Powerpoint•Training Kits•Social stories•Feeling Charts…And lots more