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• Archive: Faculty:Carol WestbyDuration:6 Hours 15 MinutesFormat:Audio and VideoCopyright:Feb 21, 2020 Description The ability to understand the structure of a story and to use this knowledge to share stories benefit students in more ways than one: these skills are critical for long-term academic, personal, and social success.Don’t miss this chance to learn from internationally-renowned language and literacy expert and Board Certified Specialist in Child Language, Carol Westby, PhD, CCC-SLP, BCS-CL, on how the ability to tell a detailed and coherent personal and fictional story is critical for:Engaging in conversationsDeveloping and maintaining relationshipsDeveloping a sense of self and self-determinationRegulating one’s behaviorMaking informed choices, goal setting, and logical problem solvingIn this recording you will learn how personal narratives allow students to understand their own behavior and that of others, thereby developing emotional regulation.
• You’ll also learn how a student’s sense of self and early narrative emerge through reminiscing about shared experiences.Carol will teach you techniques and procedures that will support your students’ social-emotional and self-regulation development while meeting the goals set out in the English Language Arts (ELA) Standards.
• You’ll learn:The importance of storytelling to social-emotional developmentThe story grammar elements that build organized story retellingTechniques to help children recognize mental states in characters, themselves, and others (Theory of Mind)How to help students understand a character’s behavior to better predict the consequences of their own actionsThe relationship of identifying setting, plot, and character traits to social-emotional skills, self-regulation, self-identity, and problem-solvingProcedures to develop the language and vocabulary that express connections between emotions/mental states and actions/eventsHow to use scaffolding to support the ability to inferTools that will help you assess and document the development of your students’ narrative structure, coherence, vocabulary, linguistic elements, and progress in meeting state ELA standardsHow to choose specific literature that will trigger reminiscing and reflectingElevate your support of students with a variety of language, literacy and behavioral disorders.
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• Handouts Manual - Developing Social-Emotional Skills & Self-Regulation in Students (4.20 MB) 98 Pages Available after Purchase Illinois Educators Self-study Instructions (28.5 KB) Available after Purchase Illinois Educators Evaluation Form (1.2 MB) Available after Purchase Outline The Relevance of Storytelling to ELA State Standards The 4 related domains of state standardsMeet IEP goals and interventions while supporting curriculum goalsInstructional strategies to promote language and literacy skillsThe Relevance of Storytelling to Social-Emotional Development Support classroom curriculum while meeting students’ needsSocial-emotional skillsSelf-regulationSelf-identitySelf-determinationProblem solvingTypes of Storytelling and Connection to Social-Emotional Development FictionalPersonal/autobiographicalLife storiesCultural variations and impact on narrativesStages of Narrative Development and Development of “Self” Physical – Emotional attachment and shared emotionsSocial – Attention, intention, and communicationCognitive – I/You perspective, sense of self, reference to selfRepresentational – Talking about the pastNarrative – Stories of me/others, past/future, worlds outside this oneCultural – Stories of us in the worldA Window into a Student’s Ability to Construct a Story Rubrics to evaluate narrative structure, coherence, vocabulary, and linguistic elementsExisting assessment tools and level of scaffolding providedPersonal, fictional, and life story narratives: Case examples ages 8-20Strategies to Develop Detailed and Coherent Stories Story grammar that builds coherent narratives and elements that affect characters’ behavior and self-regulationWays to help student recognize mental states in characters, themselves, and others (Theory of Mind)Connecting emotions/behaviors/mental states of characters to self to promote self-regulationVocabulary and syntax necessary to express connections between mental/emotional states and behaviors/eventsLiterature that triggers reminiscingStrategies to Develop and Integrate Life Stories Role of characterization in life storiesUsing biographies/autobiographies to understand characterizationIdentification and development of themesSupport inferential thinking for “why events occurred” and “why characters reacted” Faculty Carol Westby, CCC-SLP, PhD, BCS-CL, ASDCS Related seminars and products: 8 Carol Westby, CCC-SLP, PhD, BCS-CL, ASDCS, is an internationally renowned expert on play assessment and development in children.