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In 2003 / 2004 the faculty and staff at
St. Joseph School began training in the Boy Town Education Model, a program
developed at Boys and Girls Town to "enable educators to help students
manage their own behavior by learning social Skills." (The Well-Managed
Classroom For Catholic Schools)
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The social skills model developed by Boys
Town operates on the assumption that if we train our children in these
essential life skills and give them positive feedback, they will more easily
and readily develop into the young men and women God created them to be.
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The model consists of four components:
the Social Skills Curriculum (there are 16 basic skills and many
intermediate and advanced skills), Teaching Interactions (a consistent
process both for teaching the skills proactively and reviewing a skill when
a child is not using it), Motivation (using effective praise), and
Administrative Intervention (a continued instruction in a skill deficit by
the principal when a student doesn't respond to "corrective
teaching")
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To learn more about the Boys Town Method,
and to learn how to use these methods at home, visit Boys
and Girls Town Parenting.
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