This adult-facilitated worksheet is used with students who experience frequent misperceptions in social situations, leading to escalating behavior and the development of false memories and negative narratives. This worksheet is designed to accomplish two goals: 1) clarify what really happened, leading to a more successful problem resolution and 2) incrementally improve social perception skills for application in real time. The adult who facilitates this worksheet process is most effective if they’ve witnessed what happened or they are able to get a full account from others. Download: Social Detecting Worksheet
Also see: Social Comprehension Breakdown  and Clearing up Confusion

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Reset Routines Below:
Reset for Patience   •  Reset for Neatness
Reset for Listening  •  Reset for Kind and Polite
Reset for Calm and Settled   •  Reset for Focus
Repairing a Communication Breakdown

Please also see:
Social Emotional Learning: Soft Skills for School and Life
Soft Skills Proficiency Criteria
Soft Skills Programming

Using Classroom Routines to Create a Therapeutic Brain Settling Effect
Important Things to Remember about Routines
Guidelines for Using Routines
Comprehension Guides Directory

Reset for Patience
Patience is a very important life skill and it is consistently embedded in social emotional learning efforts in schools.

Reset for Neatness
Use this routine spontaneously throughout the day (when the area becomes messy or disorganized or too chaotic) to settle and ground the students with a task of organization that also improves their surroundings.

Reset for Listening
Use this routine spontaneously throughout the day when you find that students have become too relaxed about their learning habits and they need repeated reminders to use their listening skills.

Reset for Kind and Polite
Establish the culture in the classroom that prioritizes and values being kind and polite. For this culture to be established, it is essential that teachers practice it and model it themselves.

Reset for Calm and Settled
This routine should be led and modeled by the teacher. Watching an adult follow the routine will help to activate the students’ mirror neuron network to assist in bringing about the feeling of calm (provided that the teacher is actually achieving a calm state).

Reset for Focus
Use this routine when the class is under responsive to repeated reminders to stay on track, or
when the students are too easily distracted by extraneous and unimportant activity.

Repairing a Communication Breakdown
Use this routine to help students who get frustrated with explaining or asking for help or become agitated and sometimes jump to the wrong conclusion with teacher explanations.

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Many children have difficulty processing social situations. Children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder have known difficulties figuring out what is happening in social situations.  Children with variations of anxiety or depression or other mood disorders frequently misperceive and misunderstand because their mood distorts their perception and triggers their memory (and the reverse is true) and this changes how they view what is happening in real time (https://kevinplummerphd.com/the-relationship-between-mood-memory-perception-andbehavior/). While so many emotional disorders of childhood can contribute to social processing problems, this summary will focus on children with ASD…

See also: Social Detecting Worksheet and Clearing up Confusion

Direct download: Closing the Comprehension Gap

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Soft skills are a combination of social skills, work habits, communication skills, character traits, and attitudes that enable people (and students in particular) to work well with others and manage the demands of learning and working. It is difficult to acquire the “hard skills” (e.g., learning to read, write, solve equations, understand basic principles of physics, etc.) if a student hasn’t developed the soft skills to enable the process of learning new things.

Please also see:
Social Emotional Learning: Soft Skills for School and Life (this page)
Soft Skills Proficiency Criteria
Soft Skills Programming
Social Emotional Learning Routines/Reset Routines

Social Comprehension Breakdown
Social Detecting Worksheet

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direct pdf download

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Direct pdf download: Asking Permission

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It could be useful to develop a soft skills rating system. Once the soft skills have been identified for development, they can be listed on a score sheet, and next to the item can be several boxes that can be used for rating performance according to specific criteria. Periodic ratings can be dated so progress can be monitored over time. Herein is an example of such a rating form, followed by an example of proficiency/performance criteria. 

A blank form is on the last page of this document for easy duplication.

Please also see:  Soft Skills for School & Life Program Outline

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