---
title: Self-Advocacy
description: This lesson is intended to allow students to practice asking for help in the general education setting while creating a future scenario.
image: https://ideas.pixton.com/hubfs/self_advocacy-001.png
---

**Subject: Special Education**

**Lesson Length: 30 - 45 mins**

**Topic: Self-Awareness**

**Grade Level: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8**

**Standards / Framework: **

- [CASEL: SELF-MANAGEMENT](https://casel.org/fundamentals-of-sel/what-is-the-casel-framework/#interactive-casel-wheel)

**Brief Description:**  This lesson is intended to allow students to practice asking for help while creating a future scenario.

**Know Before You Start:** This lesson is designed to assist students who may have difficulty asking for help.

**Hook:**

- Ask students, “What do you do in the classroom if you need help?”
- Make a list of student responses. Explicitly review the expectations that the general education teacher has set in place.
- Explain that it is important to ask for help when we need it.

**Activity:**

- Have students create a comic that illustrates a time in the classroom when they need help.
- Students will include themselves raising their hand and asking the teacher for help.
- Once comics are completed, have students act it out with you, or in small groups.

**Closure:**

- Advise students that raising their hand is a good way to ask for help.
- Follow up with students later in the day to see if they accomplished their goal.
- Print out or display comics for students to have as a reference.

**Differentiation:**

- Create the comic with students individually as needed.
- Allow students to use the speech-to-text feature.
- Allow students to use the voiceover feature to read their comics aloud.
- Work with students to come up with a scenario that is unique to their needs and situation.

**Resources:**

- Comic to print or display: [Comic](https://share.pixton.com/qmm6arj).

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