You Are a Social Detective! Teaching Curriculum and Support Guide

by Michelle Garcia Winner, Pamela Crooke, Kari Zweber Palmer

Bring Social Emotional Learning into the classroom with the You are a Social Detective! Teaching Curriculum & Support Guide! The aim of this visually rich, easy-to-use curriculum is to teach social learners the power of observation, reading context, and interpreting clues to give them power and choice in how they respond within specific situations in ways that meet their social goals. The curriculum includes 10 fun lessons that breakdown several important concepts that help build social awareness and understanding. Students will learn how to closely observe situations going on around them, use their eyes, ears, brain, and heart to collect clues, and then interpret those clues to make smart guesses about the people and social situations they experience. Each lesson The Big Picture Objectives Vocabulary Discussion ideas Activity and/or Extension ideas to take the lessons further Appendices include Thinksheets, templates, and writing prompts for each of the lessons, as well as additional information on expanding and/or modifying lessons for specialists and other types of professionals working with children in and out of the classroom. The You Are a Social Detective storybook is the first book in the Superflex series.

64 pages, Perfect Paperback

Published January 1, 2022

About the author

Michelle Garcia Winner, MA, CCC-SLP, is the founder of Social Thinking and a globally recognized thought leader, author, speaker, and social-cognitive therapist. She is dedicated to helping people of all ages develop social-emotional learning, including those with social competency challenges. Across her 30+ year career she has created numerous evidence-based strategies, treatment frameworks, and curricula to help interventionists foster social competencies in those they support. Michelle's work also teaches how these competencies impact a person's broader life, including their ability to maintain relationships and their success in school and career. She continually retools her methods based on the latest research and inspiration from the clients she sees in her San Francisco Bay Area clinic.