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Teaching Kids How We Work & Learn in Groups

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Michelle Garcia Winner

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This free webinar explores:

Why and how we learn in groups
Focusing on developing social competencies instead of managing student behavior
Three steps toward developing social self-awareness and self-regulation

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One of the weird things about the normal school day is that we expect kids to work easily—even comfortably—in groups, often without explaining the power and benefits of learning within a group. In this one hour webinar you’ll learn explicit ways to help students explore the value of face-to-face (and online) group learning, especially when the interventionists (parents, teachers, clinicians, therapists) focus on building students' social emotional competencies rather than “trying to get kids to behave.” You will also discover three steps to help tweens and teens become increasingly aware of their social emotional self-regulation.

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What People are Saying

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Marg Sutherland, Special Ed Teacher

I really loved the way that Michelle analyzed and broke down the gaps in social thinking and the steps to viewing this. The chat about anxiety was interesting. Thank you!

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Vanessa Kurankye , Speech and language therapist

Great session! Thank you for giving me more tools and idea for group sessions to teach these concepts in an explicit manner good to know even the simple things are worth going over again to support my students!

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Priya Kannan, Parent and ABT practitioner

Great session to understand what are the goals to be worked upon from social group skills perspective. Thanks Michelle for the wonderful informative, thought proving session.

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