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Conversation skills/Social thinking

Rubric for maintaining conversation, topic maintenance, is my brain in the group, filter opinions and thoughts often, social fake and is my brain in the group?

Rubric Code: CXC664C

By janaob

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Subject: Communication

Type: Assessment

Grade Levels: 6-8, 9-12

Progress Chart Expected behaviors of being in a group
	Beginning (N/A)	Progressing (N/A)	Meets (N/A)
Maintaining a Conversation I asks questions to gain information about the communication partner and maintain conversation	Beginning Does not ask questions related to the listener's topic/interests.	Progressing Generates/Asks questions about the listener's statements with no more than 2 adult prompts of assistance in 4/5 structured activities.	Meets In settings with adult mediation, the student generates/asks questions about the listener's statements independently on 4/5 given opportunities
Topic Maintenance I stays on topic	Beginning Does not stay on topic, in spite of adult cues of redirection. Does not notice that he/she is off topic.	Progressing In structured adult led activities the student stays on topic with no more than 2 adult cues of assistance in 4/5 given opportunities.	Meets In adult mediated settings, stays on topics of discussion that are not only student's choice, but that of communication partners in 4/5 given opportunities
Responds to questions I respond to questions from teachers and peers with body orientation, eye gaze and "expected" form of response.	Beginning The student ignores or does not respond to questions in "expected" form of response..	Progressing In structured adult mediated activities, the student acknowledges and responds to questions employing eye gaze, physical orientation to a speaker, and expected form of response with no more than 2 adult prompts in 4/5 given opportunities.	Meets In adult mediated activities, the student will respond to questions from teachers and peers employing eye gaze, physical orientation and "expected" responses on 4/5 given opportunities.
Is my brain in the group? I am thinking about others in the group and its needs.	Beginning Does not think about others. Does not participate in groups with "expected behaviors" Acts as if working alone.	Progressing In adult mediated structured activities, the student thinks about others with no more than 2 prompts from staff in 4/5 given opportunities.	Meets In structured activities, the student demonstrates thinking about others n the group by listening, cooperating, engaging, suggesting and offering to perform duties which need to be done .
Social Fake Even I don't like it, I pretend I do /participate in an expected manner so the group can work.	Beginning Does not "fake" what he is thinking or feeling or demonstrate the desire to cooperate so that the group can work	Progressing In structured settings, the student "Fakes" how he/she is thinking or feeling about the group and the assigned activities with no more than 2 prompts from staff in 4/5 given opportunities.	Meets In structured settings mediated by a teacher, the student uses the "social fake " cooperation and commitment to the group assignment independently on 4/5 given opportunities.
Use my brain filter I filter what I am thinking before I say it so that the communication is positive	Beginning The student states everything that he/she is thinking regardless of the effect on the other students and their assigned tasks.	Progressing In structured adult mediated activities, the student uses his judgement filter with no more than 2 prompts in 4/5 given opportunities	Meets In structured classrooms/ groups ,the student uses his judgement filter independently in 4/5 given group opportunities

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Social Skills, Conversations, Listening, Nonverbal Language

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