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Conversation and Listening Skills Lesson 2

//ASCA Personal/Social Standard A//: Students will acquire the knowledge, attitudes, and interpersonal skills to help them understand and respect self and others. Students will learn how to communicate with friends.
 * Goals:**
 * Objective:** Students will be able to effectively initiate and maintain a conversation and understand how conversation skills are important to friendship development and maintenance.


 * Materials:** Conversation and Listening Skills worksheet

//Discuss what is a friend. What qualities does a friend have? How do you talk to a friend?// Additional instruction for continuing group: Expanding your social network and communicating effectively with others: //Homework:// Waksman, S. & Waskman, D.D.(1998). Conversation Skills. //The waksman social skills curriculum for// //adolescents: An assertiveness behavior program// (4th ed.) (pp. 31-35).Austin,TX:Pro-Ed., Emily Worsnopp ||
 * Procedure:**
 * Begin by having students talk about their best friend and what they like about that person.
 * Describe what activities they do with their friend.
 * List all the qualities of friend that the group described.
 * Role model with a student two friends carrying on an appropriate conversation.
 * Begin by discussing why being able to effectively start conversations and communicate with others is essential to developing successful relationships. It is important to know how to start, continue and end conversations for success.
 * Ask student to discuss what is scary/easy about starting new conversations, and what is challenging for them about having conversations, especially with new people.
 * Pass out “Conversation skills and Listening Skills” worksheet and discuss.
 * Have group member’s role play conversation skills (ask for volunteers). Encourage all students to participate. Ask members to come up with situations that might be challenging for them. Examples might include meeting a new person, asking for help, pairing up with someone for a class project.
 * Have student reflect on role-play. How did it feel to be the one initiating the conversation? Responding?
 * Ask students to initiate at least one conversation with a new peer over the next week. Have them write down the results of the conversation, including how they felt, about the interaction.
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 * Evaluation:** Students are evaluated based upon their contributions to the group and their ability to demonstrate effective communication skills.

Name: __

** Conversation and Listening Skills **

q Approach with //confidence.//

q Make eye contact.

q Ask questions about things that interest the other person.

q Focus on the person talking.

q Get your point across without interrupting.

q Listen and respond actively.

q Close conversation appropriately. (“It’s been nice talking”, “See you later”)