This week's Emotional Growth & Learning video:
Understanding Expected and Unexpected
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Learning Resources
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- After reading Clark the Shark (or other story with good examples of expected and unexpected behaviors), talk with students about what examples they can come up with the three different setting of both expected and unexpected behavior.
- Point out some behaviors that look the same in the different areas and some behaviors that look different.
- Finish by thinking about how people feel when they are acting in expected ways, and how others feel when they are acting in unexpected ways. List as many feeling words as they can come up with.
- Point out how people might treat them when they are having those kinds of feelings.
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Understanding Others' Feelings: Use this worksheet to help students thing about how other people think, feel, and react when the demonstrate expected and unexpected behaviors.
Social Thinking: "Expected & Unexpected" Behaviors in Social Situations (Lesson Idea - 5;35) A lesson idea using pictures in context to help students think through situations and better understand expected and unexpected behaviors.
Learning Ideas
(Books and video suggestions to reinforce the topic)
Expected and Unexpected Behavior at school (Video Lesson - 7:14) Description of expected and unexpected behaviors with specific situations and examples of what others might be thinking in those situations.