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Resilience-Promoting Skills The five capacities identified in the Resilience Framework can be fostered when children have the resilience-building skills shown in the table on the next page. The skills in the framework fall into four broad categories: • Emotional Skills • Social Skills • Communication Skills • Executive Function Skills Take a moment to review the table of skill categories on page 27 and related behaviors you can look for as students interact with one another, with you, and with other school staff members. In which skill areas do your students demonstrate greater capacity? In which might they need more opportunities to develop? For a more in-depth look at these skills, turn to the Resilience Framework on page 28. Notice how the specific skills in each category run across each of the resilience- building capacities. For example, consider the social skill of perspective-taking—the appreciation that you may have a different view or understanding of something
or someone because you’ve had a different experience. You use this skill every day. You might understand that a child is especially irritable because you know that his or her parent has been sick, while others may only see the child as displaying disruptive behaviors. You also use this skill when you read, understanding that a character has a different set of experiences and a different set of knowledge from you, the reader. The chapters that follow highlight practical ways that you can nurture these skills in the classroom through the environment you create and the literacy instruction you design.
26 The Educator’s Guide to Building Child & Family Resilience
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