Brief Summary
Susie, a school psychologist, introduces a social story coloring book designed to help students who resist doing schoolwork. The book personalises the learning experience, helps students understand the importance of schoolwork by relating it to their future goals, and encourages them to try their best. It serves as a tool for teachers and counsellors to facilitate discussions and reinforce positive behaviour in the classroom.
- The social story is designed to be personalised with the student's name, age, school, and teacher.
- It addresses the common frustrations students face with schoolwork and connects it to real-life benefits and future opportunities.
- The book encourages students to take pride in their efforts and recognise the positive impact on themselves and others.
Susie, a school psychologist with 15 years of experience, introduces a social story designed for students who dislike doing schoolwork. She used this particular story in her counselling sessions with male students, demonstrating its practical application. The resource is presented as a colouring book and social story combined, intended to facilitate discussion around why students might resist doing their work and to help them understand the importance of education.
The social story, titled "Doing My Schoolwork," begins with a page for personalisation, allowing students to fill in their name, age, school name, and grade. It mentions the teacher's name, highlighting that the teacher cares about the student and appreciates their effort in doing schoolwork. The story acknowledges that schoolwork, like reading and maths, can sometimes feel difficult and not enjoyable.
The story explains that not doing schoolwork can limit future opportunities, such as the ability to count money, read important signs, earn a high school diploma, or get a good job to afford things like a house, car, or phone. It suggests that the future self might regret not trying harder in school. The narrative encourages students to start doing their work and try their best, which will make their parents, teacher, and future self proud.
Susie used this social story with kindergarten and first-grade students, but it can be used up to third grade. It serves as a tool to help students understand the importance of school and the potential consequences of not engaging with it. The story can be kept in the classroom, and teachers can read it with students when they refuse to do their work. The resource is available for purchase in Susie's Teacher Pay Teacher store, "Counseling Fanny Pack of Fun," with a link provided below the video.
Susie encourages viewers to like and subscribe to her channel for more counselling tools and resources. She mentions having around six or seven other social stories available in her store, including a bundle of six stories covering topics such as personal space, aggression, not wanting to come to school, fears related to school, and listening to the teacher. She plans to continue creating social stories based on her experiences as a school psychologist.
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0:02 high school psychologists school counselors and other school mental health professionals my name is susie i'm a school psychologist i've been one for about 15 years and in this video i'm going to share with you one of the social stories that i used with my own counseling session today it's for students who do not like to do schoolwork um probably a few names come to your mind today i did work with two students using my book they were male students but in this book it's a my female version that i colored just to kind of demo for you what it looks like and how you would use it in your counseling session so it's a coloring book and a social story all in one so it's kind of an activity that you can do in
0:49 you know a 20 or 30 minute counseling session that'll help facilitate discussion on why your student may not like doing their work and to help them think about you know why do we do schoolwork it's so important right some students just don't quite buy into it schoolwork makes them frustrated or angry they rip it up they elope from the classroom all kinds of behaviors i'm sure you know exactly who i'm talking about so that's why you're providing them with counseling so let me just read from my story so you can hear it it is available the it is available in my teacher pay teacher store counseling fanny pack of fun and the link is below
1:34 okay so here's the story it says doing my schoolwork you can see the first page um it allows the story to be very personalized so that that social story is for your student okay so they put in their name their age um their school name and then their grade on this page it says my teacher's name is here i put mrs clark she cares about me a lot but she likes it best when i'm doing my schoolwork cute kitty right but sometimes i really do not want to do my schoolwork reading and math just does not feel that fun and also is sometimes hard for me
2:22 but if i don't do my schoolwork there might be things that i won't be able to do as a grown-up i count and use money to buy food or toys at the store or read an important sign book or directions and i might not be able to earn my high school diploma if i cannot read well or get a cool job so that i can buy my own house car or phone you know how those kids love their phones and are convinced that their parents are gonna buy them phones and pay for them forever my grown-up me might be pretty unhappy that i didn't try my best in school
3:07 so i think that i should start to do my work and try my best i know if i try harder i will make my parents teacher and grown-up me proud and that will feel great so that's the social story that i created to use with my students today my students were kindergarten and first graders but i have used this story with students up to third grade maybe and it's just one more tool to help them start learning and understanding why school work is important why they're coming to school every day and what the consequences might be later in life further grown up me there's other types of tools and resources out there i love playing games
3:53 with students but i think for this topic a social story is a good tool plus they can take it back to their classroom and so like what i did today i showed it to my students teachers and i just said you know let's keep it in their desk and if there's instances where they're refusing to do school work they can take it out and maybe you can read it with them on a break or when you have a chance so if you like this product and you think it would be good for your students please click below to purchase don't forget to like and subscribe to my channel if you like what i'm sharing with you and some of my resources and videos on how to use these different counseling tools that i'm using with my students and that i have in my store
4:41 i do have around six or seven other social stories available in my store and i do have one bundle that has a combined i think six stories so they're all kind of the same thing as far as a coloring book and starting out the same way but they cover other topics like personal space uh aggression not wanting to come to school like um fears related to school and listening to my teacher so those are the topics that i've created for my own students this school year and i will probably keep creating social stories as i have things come up in my profession as a school psychologist okay thanks for watching
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