Here’s the abstract/overview from Teachers Pay Teachers. Lots of new stuff. We learned so much from the first book, and we’re bringing our “A” game this year!
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If you’ve endured professional development sessions that stress the importance of social/emotional learning without providing a roadmap for how to actually teach these skills, here is your roadmap.
Ideal for
- Counseling groups
- Social skills/interpersonal skills elective classes
- Homeroom classes that encourage the explicit instruction of social/emotional skills
- Special education life skills classes for high-functioning secondary students
- At-risk teens who need help improving their social/emotional skills
Specifically designed for and tested with secondary students, lessons are age-appropriate for middle and high school students. Materials aren’t too juvenile for this population and don’t talk down to teens. Lessons apply to real-world social/emotional issues faced by higher-functioning adolescents with EBD, ASD, or ODD–as well as other at-risk teen populations–at home, at school, and in the community.
Less Enraged, Still Engaged: Another Year of Social Skills Lessons for Adolescents with EBD, ASD, or ODD provides 62 new step-by-step, guided lesson plans for use with adolescents that will encourage social/emotional growth while keeping students engaged.
Less Enraged, Still Engaged continues to build skills introduced in the first book, Enraged to Engaged: A Year of Social Skills Lessons for Adolescents with EBD, ASD, or ODD but also stands on its own as a single resource. Lessons are divided into the following categories that most frequently align with students’ IEP goals at the secondary level:
- Positive Self-Image
- Interpersonal Relationships
- Emotional Regulation
- Executive Function
Less Enraged, Still Engaged comes with some truly fantastic new features, including:
- Hyperlinks to reproducibles embedded in each lesson and hosted on our own server for reliable downloading of the most up-to-date reproducible materials–no more complex appendix!
- 18 new game-format lessons
- More lessons focusing on executive functioning
- More images to show finished products
- More additional supports for lesson ideas, goal-writing, and progress monitoring via our website, enraged2engaged.com
- Continuous numbering of lesson plans between Enraged to Engaged and Less Enraged, Still Engaged, allowing for easier identification of lessons within the system when planning units that employ materials from both sources
- Most lessons use readily-available materials you may already have at home or at school
- Cost and preparation time estimates included at the start of each lesson, so you’ll always know if you have the time and budget for the lesson you’ve selected
- More totally original lessons and more lessons with original reproducibles for print-and-go planning
- PDF-reader compatible Table of Contents creates a searchable, linked Table of Contents for quick and easy navigation
- Alignment with Kansas SECD standards listed at the start of each lesson. There are currently no national standards for SECD, and Kansas is considered a frontrunner in this area.
Live training available in person or via webinar for PLC groups; please use the contact form at enraged2engaged.com to request more information. Please inquire about special, reduced rates for whole-school licensing.
