Lawson, Candy, "Social Skills and School", http://www.cdl.org/resource-library/articles/social_skills.php Center for Development and Learning. 25 February 2010
Exploring the social scenes and its affect on children at school, this article provided reasons why social interaction is key in a child's movement towards adulthood. The author, Candy Lawson, Ph.D. begins with "While school can be a positive social experience for many children, for others it can be a nightmare." A basic insight but why?
Lawson throughout the article guides her insights through the different area's of social interaction such as Social status and communication skills. The one that caught my eye while reading, was her piece on Social skills. "Social inability can be a lifelong problem...social incompetence can be more debilitating and detrimental to success in life than learning problems." Lawson is right, because a child's inability to solve an issue, initiate, maintain and end conversations would end the child's future in a very social interactive world.
http://www.familyresource.com/parenting/character-development/social-skills-and-school-age-children
This brief article also spoke about how social interaction can affect a child's comfortably within school explaining again that in the future, the child may enter the workforce more prepared and the ability to socialize.
According to this article, a child's inability to appropriately react and socialize in school has a negative affect on their learning ability and therefore struggle with the ability to feel positive about school. That's interesting, but like most teens, even for those who are very social, still seem to find school as a positive stepping stone?
http://www.nasponline.org/resources/factsheets/socialskills_fs.aspx
This article which also talked about social skills in school gave more of a brief summary about why it is good and the consequences of when there are poor social skills. Also provided in the article were helpful tips to encourage those of not so high social interaction to find social skill programs.
After numerous of sites I read, and articles that explained socialization in schools, it became all to repetitive. Each new website I clicked, all said the same thing above but differently, all referring to a child's inability to socialize at an early age. By reading these repeating articles, I started to wonder, what happens when you become to good at socializing? Can being good at socializing affect the way you act in school? Yes, it does. For myself, I find that I can socialize well, and because of that I find myself in school having a lot friends, but the addiction to socialize with everyone gets me in trouble with teachers who have the power to fail or pass me in school. In school, our goals are to pass/succeed. So should being good a socializing be an advantage when most of the teachers are always telling us to "shut up, sit down, leave the classroom?" I couldn't find any articles on things like that though.
Lawson throughout the article guides her insights through the different area's of social interaction such as Social status and communication skills. The one that caught my eye while reading, was her piece on Social skills. "Social inability can be a lifelong problem...social incompetence can be more debilitating and detrimental to success in life than learning problems." Lawson is right, because a child's inability to solve an issue, initiate, maintain and end conversations would end the child's future in a very social interactive world.
http://www.familyresource.com/parenting/character-development/social-skills-and-school-age-children
This brief article also spoke about how social interaction can affect a child's comfortably within school explaining again that in the future, the child may enter the workforce more prepared and the ability to socialize.
According to this article, a child's inability to appropriately react and socialize in school has a negative affect on their learning ability and therefore struggle with the ability to feel positive about school. That's interesting, but like most teens, even for those who are very social, still seem to find school as a positive stepping stone?
http://www.nasponline.org/resources/factsheets/socialskills_fs.aspx
This article which also talked about social skills in school gave more of a brief summary about why it is good and the consequences of when there are poor social skills. Also provided in the article were helpful tips to encourage those of not so high social interaction to find social skill programs.
After numerous of sites I read, and articles that explained socialization in schools, it became all to repetitive. Each new website I clicked, all said the same thing above but differently, all referring to a child's inability to socialize at an early age. By reading these repeating articles, I started to wonder, what happens when you become to good at socializing? Can being good at socializing affect the way you act in school? Yes, it does. For myself, I find that I can socialize well, and because of that I find myself in school having a lot friends, but the addiction to socialize with everyone gets me in trouble with teachers who have the power to fail or pass me in school. In school, our goals are to pass/succeed. So should being good a socializing be an advantage when most of the teachers are always telling us to "shut up, sit down, leave the classroom?" I couldn't find any articles on things like that though.
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