Skillstreaming The Elementary School Child - People Skills, Doing 'em Right!

This second edition video reinforces the ideas of the evidence-based Skillstreaming program while highlighting exercises for elementary-aged children.

This video teaches People Skills—ways we can get along better with our friends, our parents, and even teachers, too. The instructor guides kids through skills that will help them stay out of trouble and help them manage their feelings. Social behaviours are skills, and through the guided Skillstreaming steps, kids are taught to make better choices.

For more than four decades, Skillstreaming has been an effective prosocial learning program designed to help children and youth learn positive ways to have their needs met.

The kids in the video learn that new skills require following specific steps:

• Knowing what to do (the Steps to the Skill)
• How to do it (watching a Model)
• Trying it out (Role Play), and
• Finding out how well you did and what could make it better (Feedback), and (Practice).

In People Skills: Doing ‘em Right, the instructor breaks down how the skill steps should be followed in order. Everyone role-plays the skill in a real-life situation. The role play is most effective for learning if it appears as close to real life as possible. The purpose of the role play is for the main actor to be successful in following the skill steps (practice of the positive).

Adaptable for a variety of situations, Skillstreaming is ideal for small group instruction for children who have common social needs. Often used by counsellors and teachers, the Skillstreaming program is structured to be a targeted, social-emotional learning intervention.

As showcased in the video, the instructor utilises Skill Cards, Student Workbooks, and Skill Posters to reinforce the key objectives in the Skillstreaming program.