1. A Metacognitive Approach to Social Skills Training
By:
CHRISTIAN DUMPIT.
This presentation provides an overview of how, using a metacognitive approach, students are taught how to selfdirect, self-monitor, self-evaluate, and self-correct to demonstrate appropriate social behaviors. Through this
program, Metacognitive Approach to Social Skills Training – Revised, students are taught to evaluate social situations
and to generate their own behavioral choices, rather than try to fit a few models of appropriate social behavior to
every situation. The program may be taught by fourth- through twelfth-grade teachers of any type of student needing
the program, as well as by counselors and psychologists who provide social skills training. Students learn the
essential metacognitive skills in a group situation that allow them to benefit from the practice, insight, and unique
learning advantages afforded by group interaction. In addition, opportunities to learn from observation and to practice
new skills outside the training situation are structured for the students. The presenters will demonstrate how the
program fits into, and supports, the established initiatives of Character Education, Positive Behavior Supports (PBS),
Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) and Response to Intervention (RtI). Through the research provided by these
initiatives, student participation in training in behavioral/social skills programs have shown to have a positive impact
on academic success.