This monograph describes the curriculum and teaching methods used to teach socialization skills at the Boys Town (Nebraska) special residential school for boys with behavioral disorders as well as replications of the Boys Town model in other locations. The model takes the basic techniques of the schools's Family/Home model and applies them to development of social skills within the school setting.

1. Blog

Boys & Girls Town Social Skills. Of the Boys Town Family Home Program. Changing the way schools address discipline and deal with. Boys Town, Boys Town, NE. For a boy from a broken family this became the paradise that i was fortunate enough t. Love the Tween discipline emails.

The program attempts to significantly reduce discipline problems while teaching life skills. The model is rooted in principles of applied behavior analysis and social learning theory and involves the identification of desirable prosocial behavioral expectations, the use of specific instructional strategies to teach those behavioral expectations, the application of an incentive system, and the implementation of reinforcement principles. The program's four major components are the social skills curriculum, teaching interactions, motivation systems, and administrative intervention procedures. Also reported are results of training approximately 1,700 public and private school educators throughout the United States in the model's individual components.

Blog

Workshops, the start-up and follow-up consultation service, evaluation activities, 'training of trainers' activities, and replication site selection procedures are also described. Includes 36 references and a list of 9 additional Boys Town publications.