TeachTown Elementary Social Skills has tools to assist in making data-driven decisions, such as the selection and prioritization of target skills, as well as monitoring progress, maintenance, and generalization.

This is an assessment that students can work on independently, prior to engaging in the Elementary Social Skills curriculum. Students will view a short video clip and will be asked to answer inferential questions to assess their cognition of the target social skills. The data from the screener helps users identify the domains and specific skills within the curriculum to target for intervention.


The Social Skills Screener Reports show which domains within the curriculum might be an area to target for the student. This domain-based report is broken down further to show which target skills within that domain would be a priority for intervention for the student. This screener can also be given to students after the curriculum is implemented to assess their cognition of the target skill post-intervention.


It is crucial that the students not only comprehend the target social skills in the curriculum, but that they demonstrate them in the natural setting. In the generalization assessments, each skill is broken down into 3 measurable objectives, and facilitators should collect data on these objectives during observations of the student in real world situations. This data is reported out in a number of ways.


Generalization assessment data is gathered and reported, giving facilitators quantitative data to use in progress reports, present levels of performance, etc.


This report shows the students’ progress over time.


This report shows the student’s average percentage of independent responses for each of the 3 objectives per skill. This report allows users to instantly see if there is a portion of the skill with which the student is having difficulty, targeting specific areas for further intervention.

TEACHTOWN SOCIAL SKILLS ELEMENTARY PROGRAM TARGETS 5 KEY BEHAVIORAL DOMAINS

The social skills featured in TeachTown Social Skills are critical to students’ well being. These skills help optimize classroom learning and school safety for students with special needs and diagnosed with ASD. TeachTown Social Skills can help these students focus on building positive peer relationships. At a time when the issue of bullying has become such an important part of the conversation, this program can help students cope with bullies and lessen the likelihood that they will become bullies themselves. Integrated throughout each volume of TeachTown Social Skills are themes that help students build confidence, make good decisions, and become successful students — all of which contribute to creating a safe and secure school environment.

 
 

Each Target Social Skill Contains

• An animated episode that is 2-3 minutes in length
• 5 sequential teacher-driven lessons
• 1 extension activity lesson plan
• 1 homework assignment
• 1 comic book activity
• 1 worksheet
• Visual Supports
• Online Assessment
• Data Reporting/Data Forms

 
 

Five Behavioral Domains of TeachTown Elementary Social Skills:

 

 

 

 

 

This is an assessment that students can work on independently, prior to engaging in the Elementary Social Skills curriculum. Students will view a short video clip and will be asked to answer inferential questions to assess their cognition of the target social skills. The data from the screener helps users identify the domains and specific skills within the curriculum to target for intervention.

• Each target social skill includes one Interactive Activity. This is an activity that the student can work on independently to improve their comprehension of the TeachTown Elementary Social Skills episodes and their ability to make inferences about social situations. The Interactive activities are designed to supplement the teacher-driven lesson plans, and can be assigned as individual in-class activities or as homework.
  
• The students will watch clips of the animated episode and will answer 5 multiple choice questions (interspersed between clips) about the target skill. Each response option is paired with a picture for visual support.
  
• The questions and response options will be read aloud to them, so even students who are not fluent readers will be able to access this activity.
  
• Data will be collected on their correct responses out of a possible 5 and reported. This allows teachers to use this activity for progress monitoring.
  

Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) is an implementation framework that is designed to enhance academic and social behavior outcomes for all students by (a) emphasizing the use of data for informing decisions about the selection implementation and progress monitoring of evidence-based practices; and (b) organizing resources and systems to improve durable implementation fidelity (Sugai and Simonsen, 2012). Elementary Social Skills comprehensive curriculum and assessment utilizes evidence based practices to teach socially valid behaviors and can be integrated into a PBIS framework easily.

Elementary Social Skills is ideal for children with special needs, autism and emotional and social development needs while also proving effective with the entire classroom or school. Adults working with children that need additional support are thrilled with the progress they make in a variety of situations, settings, and social interactions.