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Does YOUR SCHOOL need an Evidence-Based Program to Guide its
Positive Behavioral Support System and Decrease its Discipline Problems??? The Stop & Think Social Skills Program part of Project
ACHIEVE's Positive Self-Management System is Now Available through CICC The
Center for the Improvement of Child Caring (CICC) is now featuring the Stop
and Think Social Skills Program, created by Dr. Howard M. Knoff, to help
your school create POSITIVE SCHOOL CLIMATES, DECREASE DISCIPLINE PROBLEMS,
and INCREASE STUDENT ENGAGEMENT-- a key component of academic achievement. The
Stop & Think School Program has been designated as a "Model
Program" by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services
Administration (SAMHSA), a "Promising Program" by the Office of
Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP), and a "Key Model
Program" by the Collaboration for Academic, Social and Emotional
Learning (CASEL). In
addition, the Stop & Think Parent Program has just been published
by Dr. Knoff, and it is exclusively available from CICC under a special
agreement. The
Stop and Think programs teach an effective, evidence-based approach to
help children solve just about any social problem or challenge that they or
teachers teaching them confront. Indeed, the programs teach a wide range of
very practical Survival, Interpersonal, Problem-Solving and Conflict
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There
are four age-specific Stop and Think Social Skills Classroom kits from
preschool through middle school. These separate, developmentally-sensitive
curricula are written for classroom teachers and focus on the following grade
levels: PreKindergarten through First Grade Students
This kit shows
teachers how to teach 20 different social skills, along with over 15
different classroom or building routines. Every skill is taught through a
variety of role-playing and group activities, which are all explained in the
Teacher's Manual for this evidence-based program. The
instructional package for this nationally-reknown social skills program
consists of a:
Complete instructional
packages are available, as are additional sets of cue cards, signs and
posters. For more information on how the Stop & Think Program
specifically teaches social skills see the end of this announcement. To obtain these instructional packages, click on the age group
of your interest: |
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Parents
also can learn to teach their children social skills by using the Stop
and Think Parenting Book: A Guide to Children's Good Behavior,
accompanied by its 75 minute demonstration DVD, Teaching Children to Stop
and Think at Home: A Parent's Guide to Teaching Good Behavior. These
two teaching tools can also be used by professionals, such as counselors,
social workers, psychologists and prevention specialists, for parenting
classes highlighting the Stop and Think Program. Guided
by the book and DVD, parents learn the five-step Stop and Think approach, and
how to teach the social skills to their preschool and/or elementary school
children. Different suggestions are provided for teaching preschool, early,
and late elementary school children, taking the child's level of development
into consideration. Parents
learn how to introduce and practice the social skills so that the skills are
performed by their children more and more successfully and automatically over
time. They are specifically "coached" in the best ways to talk to
their children, to motivate their children, and to stay consistent with their
children - across different settings, situations, and circumstances. The
Book prompts parents to watch one of the nine DVD segments that show real
parents teaching their own children the Stop and Think process. The
book also includes a calendar with guidelines and dates for teaching
and reinforcing the social skills for up to a full year. It also provides forms
that help parents to keep track of their children's progress, Cue
Cards on which each skill is broken into its component behavioral steps,
and Parenting Points to consider and keep in mind when teaching a
specific skill. This
Stop & Think Program can be self-taught by parents who purchase
the Book/DVD package or obtain it through their local schools or agencies.
This Program also can be taught by professionals to parent groups using the
same instructional package that the parents receive. To obtain this instructional package, click here.
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Dr.
Howard M. Knoff is the Director of Project ACHIEVE, author of the Stop and
Think Social Skills Programs, and Director of the Arkansas Department of
Education's School Improvement Grant which is funding the statewide
implementation of Project ACHIEVE. Dr.
Knoff was previously Professor of School Psychology at the University of
South Florida for 20 years and the Director of the School Psychology Program
there for 12 years. His Ph.D. degree is from Syracuse University (1980), and
he has worked since 1978 as a practitioner, consultant, licensed private
psychologist, and university professor. Dr.
Knoff is widely respected for his research and writing on school reform and
organizational change, consultation and intervention processes, social skills
and behavior management training, personality assessment, and professional
issues. He has published over 75 articles and book chapters, and delivered
over 500 papers and workshops nationally. A recipient of the Lightner Witmer
Award from the American Psychological Association's School Psychology
Division in 1989 for early career contributions, and almost $4 million in
external grants since 1990, he was the 21st President of the National
Association of School Psychologists, which now represents over 20,000 school
psychologists.
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The
Stop and Think Social Skill Training program uses a five-step
approach for teaching, reinforcing or using any of the social skills
mentioned above. The five steps are:
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The
Stop and Think Programs help parents and teachers to teach ten basic
and ten advanced social skills at each of four developmental levels. The
skills can be organized in four clusters: Survival Skills - these are
the most basic skills that are needed in order to be successful with all of
the other skills that are taught. These skills lay the foundation for all
other skills and include the social skills of:
Interpersonal Skills - these skills help children
interact successfully and get along with siblings, peers, older and younger
students, parents, teachers and other adults. Included here are the social
skills of:
Problem Solving Skills - these skills help children
to solve or prevent individual, interactive, peer, or classroom problems, and
include the social skills of:
Conflict Resolution Skills - these skills help
children to deal with highly emotional situations and to resolve existing
intrapersonal and interpersonal conflicts. Included here are the social
skills of:
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The
Center for the Improvement of Child Caring (CICC) was founded in 1974 by Dr.
Kerby T. Alvy and has grown to be one of the nation's largest and most
productive nonprofit parenting and parenting education organizations. For
more infomration about CICC's many programs, activities, products and
services, go to www.ciccparenting.org,
or call toll-free (800) 325-2422. To sign up to receive CICC's free Effective Parenting
Newsletter, click
here. Become a member of the National Effective
Parenting Initiative: |
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