Week 1
Greetings & Ground Rules
- Establish classroom ground rules
- Learn classroom policy and procedures
- Identify and use mnemonic devices to recall new information
Week 2
Listening & Following Directions
- Listen with increasing attention
- Understand and follow simple, concrete commands with visual prompts
Week 3
Respect
- Correctly identify and show respect for fellow classmates
- Demonstrate a proper handshake
Week 4
Teambuilding
- Establish the role of the leader (PAL)
- Incorporate learning strategies via a group
- Build teamwork
- Reinforce good study habits
Week 5
Relationship Bank Account
- Identify key terms and understand their meanings
- Understanding the importance of relationships
- Identify deposits and withdrawals in an Relationship Bank Account
- Learning how to repair relationships utilizing the Relationship Bank Account
WEEK 6
Communication
- Identify different forms of communication and give examples of their use
- Learn to develop quality inferences
- Learn how to finger spell and decode different languages
WEEK 7
Feedback
- Learn to provide others with constructive feedback
- Identify different types of feedback and which type is best for different scenarios
- Demonstrate a "good burger"
Week 8
Teambuilding
- Develop good working relationships between all members, giving them experience of working with different team members
- Nurture shared problem solving and generating new ideas
- Learn to ask for help and how much (or how little) communication there needs to be among co-workers.
- Discover the importance of communicating ideas and experiences among the group to accomplish goals.
- Discover how having fun and accomplishing goals can be the best morale booster around.
Week 9
Public Speaking
- Prepare and propose various methods of speech organization.
- Identify the different types of speeches and their components
- Recognize delivery elements to enhance a speech