Acting Out Social Skills Beyond The Basics Introductory Kit

Acting Out Social Skills: Beyond the Basics prepares students for social interaction challenges commonly found at work. Students role play, analyze, and discuss seven work-related dilemmas as viewed from the perspective of three different characters. Students are guided through a structured process to resolve each dilemma. The dilemmas address seven universal character virtues: Responsibility, Respect, Fairness, Citizenship, Trustworthiness, Caring, and Civic Responsibility. The program consists of a full-color Student Book and Teacher\'s Guide. The Student Book is organized theatrically with settings, actors, and scenes. Student activities focus on emotions, behaviors, and alternative methods to resolve social problems. The Teacher\'s Guide includes a Student Book with all the worksheets completed.

Acting Out Workplace Social Skills is a curriculum that challenges students to address work-related dilemmas viewed from the perspective of different characters. Acting Out incorporates read-aloud scenarios, role plays, and small group discussion with worksheets. The Student Book presents a sequence of seven acts: Responsibility, Respect, Fairness, Citizenship, Trustworthiness, Caring, Civic Responsibility. Each act has three scenes emphasizing the viewpoint of different characters. Students act out the role plays, then reflect on varying outcomes. The program consists of a black and white Student Book and Teacher\'s Guide.The Teacher\'s Guide provides an overview of the curriculum plus the entire Student Book with completed answers.

The teacher guides include a Win/Mac CD with a PDF and a Classroom License for printouts. By June Stride, EdD. All books are covered spiralbound, 150–160 pages. Acting Out: Workplace Social Skills, black and white, 2010; Acting Out: Beyond the Basics, full color, 2011.