Term
Summer 2019
Capstone
Capstone Project
Degree Name
MAT
Facilitator(s)
Melissa Erickson
Content Expert
Kristin Reilly
Abstract
The research question addressed by this project is How can educators successfully implement social skills with elementary-aged students to increase their overall achievement? The purpose of this exploration is to identify effective strategies for elementary school educators to reference and utilize supporting their student’s social skill development. This project reviews studies conducted by many researchers in the field of elementary education, social skill development, and child development in order to create a digital resource compiling receptive and expressive social skill strategies to be used with elementary-aged students.The research focuses on the definition of social skills, which skills are necessary for social skill development, who benefits from proper social skill implementation, and effective ways to teach social skills. To encourage elementary teachers to support their students’ social skill development within the classroom, the capstone project is a gathering of the strategies compiled as a result of the research into the form of a website including pictures.
Keywords
Achievement, Teachers/ Teaching, Elementary, Social Emotional Skills
Recommended Citation
Grahek, Kate, "Effective Instruction Of Social Skills To Increase Student Achievement In Elementary-Aged Students" (2019). School of Education and Leadership Student Capstone Projects. 333.
https://digitalcommons.hamline.edu/hse_cp/333
dc_type
text
dc_publisher
DigitalCommons@Hamline
dc_format
application/pdf
dc_source
School of Education Student Capstone Projects