The Other Side of the Friendship Pyramid: Dealing with Dislike
Free 10 Minute Aha! Teaching Moment
Working with thirteen year olds can be tricky, especially when they are resistant to treatment and appear to revel in being “the most hated kid in school.” In our first-ever Aha! Teaching Moment video, Michelle Garcia Winner discusses developing the Pyramid of Dislike thinksheet to help a client realize it will be tough to make new friends when he spends most of his attention on the people he dislikes.
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Working with thirteen year olds can be tricky, especially when they are resistant to treatment and appear to revel in being “the most hated kid in school.” In our first-ever Aha! Teaching Moment video, Michelle Garcia Winner discusses developing the Pyramid of Dislike thinksheet to help a client realize it will be tough to make new friends when he spends most of his attention on the people he dislikes.
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Learn About the Friendship Pyramid
Teachable Takeaways
- Hot takes and quick ideas to fuel your practice
- Brand-new Pyramid of Dislike handout
- Novel approaches for using Social Thinking tools and strategies not found anywhere else
- Insider tips from the pros in 10 minutes
Download Handouts
- Download the Learning Strengths, Differences and Challenges handout and learn 12 tips for using it in the article Teaching Students About Their Learning Styles (Strengths, Differences, and Relative Challenges)
- Download the Pyramid of Dislike—but don’t teach it until you’ve taught the Friendship Pyramid.
Teachable Takeaways
- Hot takes and quick ideas to fuel your practice
- Brand-new Pyramid of Dislike handout
- Novel approaches for using Social Thinking tools and strategies not found anywhere else
- Insider tips from the pros in 10 minutes
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Teachable Takeaways
- Hot takes and quick ideas to fuel your practice
- Brand-new Pyramid of Dislike handout
- Novel approaches for using Social Thinking tools and strategies not found anywhere else
- Insider tips from the pros in 10 minutes
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Teachable Takeaways
- Hot takes and quick ideas to fuel your practice
- Brand-new Pyramid of Dislike handout
- Novel approaches for using Social Thinking tools and strategies not found anywhere else
- Insider tips from the pros in 10 minutes
What’s a Friend & How Do We Show That We Are “Friendly?”
This module uses Social Thinking’s Friendship Pyramid to define and grow friendships. We look at using narrative data to measure a student’s competencies. We review using physical movement in the social communication process, explore a strategy to see if your student is ready to generalize some of their new skills, and discuss the serious topic of our teens who don’t build social networks.
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