
Behavioral Toolkit for Coping With Making Mistakes with Social Narratives
Whether you teach general education or special education, chances are good that you have students who think everything needs to be perfect and meltdown when they make a mistake. This toolkit of behavioral tools and social narratives (like social stories) is just what you need to be proactive in teaching them to cope with mistakes. Who Is It For? I have used these strategies successfully with a wide variety of students in a variety of situations and settings: Preschool to High School Students with with and without autism or special needs. Students who struggle with anxiety or other behavioral challenges. Features Each social narrative includes descriptive sentences, perspective sentences that talk about how other students and the teachers perceive the student’s behavior, and coping strategies to help the student use the new replacement behavior. These social narratives and tools teach students to handle mistakes using a growth mindset approach, assessing the size of the prob