Everyday Speech is proud to announce the launch of an all-new skill on the platform: Relationships for Middle and High Schoolers. This new skill features brand new units, including Getting Ready to Date, Dating, and Ending a Relationship. Each unit features age-appropriate videos, activities, and games for learners who have begun to show interest in romantic relationships.
Dating etiquette involves a whole lot of social skills. It can be overwhelming thinking about all the rules, social cues, and nonverbal communication that go into navigating a relationship! Our new dating unit will support you in teaching skills related to communication, self-advocacy, and staying safe in relationships.
Plus, for our younger learners, don’t miss our new Pre-K and K materials on making introductions, using connected comments, staying on topic, lining up, and creating and respecting personal space.
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NEW Relationship Materials for Middle and High School Students
New Videos
Communication in Relationships
Students learn how to communicate well in relationships in order to avoid misunderstandings.
Checking In: Is This Relationship Working for Me?
Students learn the importance of checking in and evaluating their feelings when dating another person.
Asking Someone Out
Students learn the steps to take in order to ask someone they like out on a date.
Coping After a Breakup
Breakups can be difficult. In this lesson, learners will be given a variety of tips and steps they can take in order to positively cope after a breakup.
New Everyday Speech World Experiences
Dating
Students will practice a variety of social interactions to build healthy dating and relationship skills.
Texting in a Relationship
Students will practice appropriate texting skills when it comes to building a relationship and dating.
New Activities
Coping With a Break Up
Breakups are difficult, no matter who broke up with who. These three examples will help students discover ways to cope with a break-up.
Break-up Dos and Don’ts
This interactive activity will help students decide the best way to approach and handle a break-up.
Preparing to Date
This interactive check-in will help students decide whether or not they feel prepared to date.
Crushes Dos and Don’ts
When we have a crush, we might feel nervous, shy, or giddy around them– this is normal! But how do we know how to act around our crush? This activity will help students practice crush Dos and Don’ts.
Relationship Check-In
When we’re in a relationship with someone we should continuously be checking in with ourselves. This means asking ourselves, “Is this relationship working for me?”.
New Game
Social Trivia: Dating
Students cover four areas of dating in this points-based trivia game: connecting with others, texting, recognizing other’s emotional clues, and predicting the outcome of one’s actions.
New Pre-K and K Materials
New Videos
Personal Space
Students learn how to keep personal space. Personal space is the space we keep when we stand, sit, or play with others.
Lining Up
In this video, students learn how to line up. Lining up is a skill that is important when a group of students or class needs to leave the classroom.
Making Connected Comments
In this lesson, students learn how to connect to other people’s comments to keep a certain conversation topic going. Making connected comments assures the person you are talking to that you are listening and interested in what they are saying.
Introducing Yourself
In this lesson, students learn how to introduce themselves when they meet new people.
Staying on Topic
In this lesson, learners will be taught how to stay on topic. Staying on topic is an important conversational skill to build friendships. It makes conversations fun and engaging.
New Activities
How to Line Up
Students will learn and practice how to line up in the classroom in this interactive sequencing activity!
Keeping Personal Space
In this activity, learners will act out various scenarios with a partner to practice keeping personal space.
New Everyday Speech World Experience
Social Chameleon
Students will practice tuning in and being a great observer in order to decide how to behave the most appropriately in different locations and situations.
