Social Skills for Teens: The Teaching Guide for Smile & Succeed for Teens

Description

Social Skills for Teens is The Teaching Guide for the award-winning book Smile & Succeed for Teens: Will have to-Know People Skills for Today’s Wired World. This information-packed guide is created by teachers as a supplement to the book to help you teach a fun and effective life skills and career skills curriculum for teens and…there’s more! It’s short and fun. Perfect for CTE (career and technical education), social skills, DECA, transition, school to work teachers, home school, and youth groups. This Teaching Guide is also popular with special education teachers teaching students with special needs and autism.

Harvard University says Social Skills are the Top Factor for Getting a Job-ARE YOUR STUDENTS PREPARED? When you use this Teaching Guide together with the book Smile & Succeed for Teens You’ll learn how to:

• Easily and successfully help your students apply the techniques in Smile & Succeed for Teens.
• Assist your students in improving critical communication skills for success in school, work, and life.
• Guide your students as they prepare for a job and help them get a positive head start in their career.
• Help students who have jobs or volunteer to quickly fortify customer service and increase sales or donations. 
• Help you effectively teach the 21st Century Skills in the book Smile & Succeed for Teens.

FILLED WITH ACTIVITIES – ROLE-PLAYING AND MORE! REPRODUCIBLE WORKSHEETS FOR THE CLASSROOM.

This Teaching Guide is an Activity Guide for Teachers: Covers PEOPLE SKILLS, JOB SKILLS, COVER LETTER/RESUME. MOCK JOB INTERVIEWS. ELECTRONIC ETIQUETTE, CUSTOMER SERVICE, SALES, VOLUNTEERING SKILLS and more. 18 exercises for teaching the social skills and job skills in the book Smile & Succeed for Teens.

Created By Teachers to Help Teens Succeed! For Grades 6-12
Inside this supportive book You’ll also find indispensable tips, proven techniques, and “Will have to-do-now” strategies. This valuable teaching guide generates immediate results for success in school, life and work. In no time You’ll be helping teens master priceless social skills, prepare for a job and get a head start in a career. This is the perfect asset for those who wish to help teens in search of a job, working, starting their own business, volunteering or applying to college. You’ll teach them to make a powerful first impression that will positively affect their future for years yet to come!

For Classroom Use and MORE
Are you the use of Smile & Succeed for Teens to teach teens outside a classroom? Good news! This Teaching Guide is a also an ideal church and youth groups (scouting, etc.) tool and can be used powerfully for nonprofits, businesses employing teens, and more. Short, quick and easy to use and implement, just like the book Smile & Succeed for Teens.

The lessons in the Teaching Guide are flexible and can be assigned daily, semiweekly, weekly or whenever there is available time in the classroom.

Packed inside, You’ll find all you wish to have to ensure that your students succeed in school, work, and life with this essential life and career skills curriculum for teens!

Table of Contents
Exercise 1
Informational Text Scavenger Hunt

Exercise 2
Essential People Skills

Exercise 3
Evaluating Personal Experience

Exercise 4
Role Play Top Ten People Skills (Ch. 1)

Exercise 5
Create a Flyer (Ch. 2)

Exercise 6
Build a Cover Letter and Resume (Ch. 2)

Exercise 7
Mock Interview (Ch. 2)

Exercise 8:
Keep Your Job (Ch. 2)

Exercise 9
Overcome Stress Evaluation (Ch. 2)

Exercise 10
Master Electronic Etiquette (Ch. 3)

Exercise 11
Role Play Customer Service Skills (Ch. 4-6)

Exercise 12
Answer the Phone with a Smile (Ch. 4)

Exercise 13
Role Play Fundraising Skills (Ch. 7)

Exercise 14
Be a Mystery Shopper (Ch. 1-7)

Exercise 15
Service Learning Project (Ch. 7)

Exercise 16
Make it Stick (Ch. 1-7)

Exercise 17
Quotations, Illustrations, Computer Monitors, and Wired Tips (Ch. 1-7)

Exercise 18
Book Review (Ch. 1-7)

Appendix
Lesson Worksheets

Purchase this Teaching Guide today to give teens a huge head start for success in school, work, and life!