Media : TFA: Effective Practices in Teaching & Learning II

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Laureate Education, Inc. (Executive Producer). (2012g). Teaching social skills. Baltimore, MD: Author. (approximate length: 2 minutes)

Dr. Sean Smith refers to social skills as the “hidden curriculum” of schools and implores teachers to help kids adjust before they are lost in the secondary school environment.

Laureate Education, Inc. (Executive Producer). (2012h). Virtual Field Experience®: Secondary lesson. Baltimore, MD: Author. (approximate length: 10 minutes)

A special educator and student teacher in special education conduct a lesson that involves a research activity to help students learn about the brain. As you view, notice the social skills and appropriate behaviors that are persistently demonstrated and modeled by the teachers in a “relentless” attempt to make sense of the skills for students and provide them with practice.

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