Subject: SEL (Social-Emotional Learning), Special Education
Lesson Length: 15 - 20 mins
Topic: Stress Management
Brief Description: Students will practice how to ask for help.
Know Before You Start: Students should understand that there are many tools to help manage stress.
Hook:
- Discuss with students when they last asked someone for help.
- Why did you ask for help?
- Did you ask for help right away or did you wait until something became too stressful to handle it yourself?
- Explain that asking for help can be challenging for adults, too.
- Why do you think it’s hard?
- Possible answers may include: feeling weak, scared because it might involve punishment, being unsure of who to talk to about it, fear of being picked on because you asked for help, pride, etc.
Activity:
- Read and discuss the sample comic.
- Who would they ask for help?
- What would they say to ask for help?
- Have students create a comic depicting themselves or a character asking for help.
- Students may use the following sentence frames to support their answers:
- “I’m having a hard time with_______, Can we talk about it later?"
- “I’ve been trying really hard but still don’t get this. Can you help me?"
- “I’m not sure how I feel about something. Can we talk about it?”
- “I could really use some advice about_______. Can we talk it out together?
Closure:
- Give students some time to reflect on their own or journal.
- Who is someone in my life I can trust and will always be able to ask for help?
- Do I feel comfortable asking my teacher(s) for help? Why or why not?
- What is something right now in my life where I could use some help? How can I ask for support?
Differentiation:
- Allow students to use the speech-to-text feature.
- Provide sentence frames.
- Use role-play to provide an opportunity to practice using dialogue to ask for help.
- Allow students to use the voiceover feature to read their comics aloud.
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