Movie Time Social Learning

Movie Time Social Learning

By Anna Vagin PhD

When we are in face-to-face interactions, there is no pause, rewind, or replay buttons. But in Movie Time Social Learning, there are!

One of the greatest challenges in how to think socially is finding interesting, imaginative, and enjoyable ways for students of all ages to study complex social situations. Movie Time Social Learning takes an activity many students already love — watching stories on our screens, whether movies, TV shows or YouTube clips — and uses them as a springboard to study how we make sense of people in context. Dr. Vagin provides numerous social emotional teaching strategies and tips for teaching three different types of social learning styles. By hitting the pause button, we freeze social situations and give students the all-so-valuable extra time to read context, interpret thoughts, feelings, and plans, make predictions about social behaviour, and formulate narrative language to discuss social interactions.

Author Anna Vagin’s thirty years of experience and deep understanding of social learning shine through each page as she thoughtfully explains social concepts and provides detailed, fine-tuned lessons for seven different popular movies that students will recognise and love.

About the Book
The Movie Time Social Learning method is explained via seven different easy-to-find movies and their accompanying lessons. The movies range from short, simpler movies that can be used with children with more limited social thinking, to movies with more complex social interaction, better suited for individuals who are working on more advanced levels.

Each lesson plan identifies the clips used in the movie, and then for each clip, presents ideas and suggestions for teaching Spy Eye, Detective Head, and Me Too! tasks. These tasks help students develop their abilities to identify context, take perspective and make personal connections. The book includes a download link for all seven lesson plans as well as ready-to-print templates, handouts, and letters. The video clips are NOT included with the downloadable resources.