Social-awareness & Interpersonal Skills-3rd-5th Grade

Use social-awareness and interpersonal skills to establish and maintain positive relationships.

Recognize the feelings and perspectives of others. Recognize the feelings and perspectives of others by following the teachings of Jesus.

Recognize individual and group similarities and differences. Recognize that everyone is created in the image and likeness of God.

Use communication and social skills to interact effectively with others. Recognize that our Catholic faith affects our interactions with others.

Demonstrate an ability to prevent, manage, and resolve interpersonal conflicts in constructive ways. Recognize the need for prayer and forgiveness in resolving interpersonal conflicts.

Distinguish between nonverbal and verbal cues and messages.

Show how they care about the feelings of others.

Describe others’ feelings in a variety of situations, e.g., home, school, neighborhood. 

Talk about the feelings and perspectives of characters in books and Bible Stories, i.e., bibliotherapy.

Describe how one feels when: left out of an activity/group and bullied by others

Describe how Jesus was excluded or bullied and how He might have felt.

List strategies to support students who are left out or bullied. 

Describe a disagreement they had with another person and summarize both points of view.

Evaluate how a change in behavior of one side of a disagreement affects the other side.

Recognize that people from different cultural and social groups share many things in common.

Describe the basic rights of all individuals regardless of their social or cultural affiliations.

Analyze how people of different cultures or groups can help one another and enjoy each other’s company.

Demonstrate strategies for building relationships with others who are different from oneself.

Give examples of how Jesus modeled tolerance. 

Study the life of a saint and tell how he/she taught us about tolerance. 

Describe the qualities of an effective communicator.

Respond positively to constructive criticism.

Take responsibility for one’s mistakes.

Distinguish between positive and negative peer pressure.

Demonstrate strategies for resisting negative peer pressure.

Describe how the Catholic faith helps them make good choices, e.g., Commandments, Beatitudes, etc. 

Identify bullying behavior and how it affects people.

Describe ways to stop rumors.

Explain what happens when a conflict is not resolved.

Analyze how an inability to manage one’s anger might cause a conflict to get worse. 

Identify assertive, passive and aggressive conflict resolution behaviors.

Distinguish between constructive and destructive ways of resolving conflict.

Distinguish between positive and negative peer pressure.

Practice the steps of refusing unwanted peer pressure.

Write a prayer of forgiveness. 

Talk about ways in which the Sacraments can help in resolving conflicts.