Social Thinking Vocabulary
Social Thinking Vocabulary by Michelle Garcia Winner
Social Thinking: The idea that we are all social thinkers everyday and in every situation including at school and at home. Social Thinking teaches that people around us have thoughts and feelings about us. Social thinking emphasizes the importance of understanding the perspective and feelings of others.
Following Hidden Rules: This is to explain that not all rules are clearly announced. Most rules in our world are rules people figure out through observation and experience. If you are not sure of the rules, you can ask someone.
Expected Behavior: Doing what you are suppose to be doing in a given situation. Every situation is different based on where you are and who you are with, but every situation has specific behaviors that are written or hidden that one should do in order for others to have good thoughts and feelings about you.
Unexpected Behavior: Failing to follow the set of rules in a given situation that were stated or hidden. People who don’t follow the rules are doing what is unexpected and people may have uncomfortable or weird thoughts about them.
Whole Body Listening: The idea that we use our whole body (brain, ears, quiet hands, feet and mouth, and eyes) to listen and all parts need to be focused on the group in order to listen and show that you are listening.
Thinking with your eyes: Watching people’s face, body, and eyes to help us figure out what kind of thoughts other people are having.
Keeping your body and brain in the group: Understanding that our bodies need to look interested and connected to the group and our brain needs to keep thinking about what the group is thinking in order to participate in the group. Also, people can see when your body or brain does not appear to be part of the group.
Social Detective: Everyone is a social detective. We use our social detective skills when we use our eyes, ears, and brains to figure out what others are planning to do next or what they are thinking.
Making a Smart Guess: Taking information you already know or have been taught and making an educated guess with the information.
Making a Wacky Guess: Making a guess when you have absolutely no information to help you figure out what the guess should be.
Flexible Thinking: The ability to think about different points of view and to interpret different verbal and non-verbal information. Having mental flexibility.
Superflex: A comic superhero who helps kids overcome the challenges in different social situations that occur both at home and in school.
The Unthinkables: Comic characters who try to make people inflexible and experience different challenges including getting stuck, overreacting, getting distracted, worrying too much and many more. The students learn how each of them has Superflex capacities inside their brains to defeat the Team of Unthinkables.
Social Thinking Vocabulary by Michelle Garcia Winner
Social Thinking: The idea that we are all social thinkers everyday and in every situation including at school and at home. Social Thinking teaches that people around us have thoughts and feelings about us. Social thinking emphasizes the importance of understanding the perspective and feelings of others.
Following Hidden Rules: This is to explain that not all rules are clearly announced. Most rules in our world are rules people figure out through observation and experience. If you are not sure of the rules, you can ask someone.
Expected Behavior: Doing what you are suppose to be doing in a given situation. Every situation is different based on where you are and who you are with, but every situation has specific behaviors that are written or hidden that one should do in order for others to have good thoughts and feelings about you.
Unexpected Behavior: Failing to follow the set of rules in a given situation that were stated or hidden. People who don’t follow the rules are doing what is unexpected and people may have uncomfortable or weird thoughts about them.
Whole Body Listening: The idea that we use our whole body (brain, ears, quiet hands, feet and mouth, and eyes) to listen and all parts need to be focused on the group in order to listen and show that you are listening.
Thinking with your eyes: Watching people’s face, body, and eyes to help us figure out what kind of thoughts other people are having.
Keeping your body and brain in the group: Understanding that our bodies need to look interested and connected to the group and our brain needs to keep thinking about what the group is thinking in order to participate in the group. Also, people can see when your body or brain does not appear to be part of the group.
Social Detective: Everyone is a social detective. We use our social detective skills when we use our eyes, ears, and brains to figure out what others are planning to do next or what they are thinking.
Making a Smart Guess: Taking information you already know or have been taught and making an educated guess with the information.
Making a Wacky Guess: Making a guess when you have absolutely no information to help you figure out what the guess should be.
Flexible Thinking: The ability to think about different points of view and to interpret different verbal and non-verbal information. Having mental flexibility.
Superflex: A comic superhero who helps kids overcome the challenges in different social situations that occur both at home and in school.
The Unthinkables: Comic characters who try to make people inflexible and experience different challenges including getting stuck, overreacting, getting distracted, worrying too much and many more. The students learn how each of them has Superflex capacities inside their brains to defeat the Team of Unthinkables.