Social Emotional IEP Goals
One of the biggest challenges students faces is peer pressure. Their peers' behavior often influences students, which can lead to poor choices. Teachers can help students identify and practice using assertive actions when pressured by their friends in an IEP goal designed for social skills. This goal will help students understand how to resist peer pressure and make good choices. Students need to learn how to resist peer pressure because it can help them avoid making mistakes that could have negative consequences. Additionally, learning how to resist peer pressure can help students stay on track with their goals and make progress in their lives. For these reasons, students must learn to use assertive behavior to resist peer pressure. This IEP goal is designed to help students with social skills identify and practice assertive behavior when faced with peer pressure.
Content Strand
Peer Pressure
Reacting to Peer Pressure
Target IEP Goal
By (date), when given a situation of peer pressure, the student will independently use assertive behavior in resisting harmful peer pressure, improving peer pressure skills from 0/10 opportunities in ten consecutive trials to 8/10 opportunities in ten consecutive trials.
IEP Goal Objectives
Resisting Peer Pressure
By (date), when given a situation of peer pressure, the student will independently use assertive behavior to resist harmful peer pressure, improving peer pressure skills from 0/10 opportunities in ten consecutive trials to 8/10 opportunities in ten consecutive trials.
A Hypothetical Situation Depicting Harmful Peer Pressure Worksheet
By (date), when given a hypothetical situation depicting harmful peer pressure worksheet, the student will independently select an appropriate solution to the scenario improving peer pressure skills from 0/10 opportunities in ten consecutive trials to 8/10 opportunities in ten consecutive trials.
A Hypothetical Situation Depicting Harmful Peer Pressure In Role-Play
By (date), when given a hypothetical situation depicting harmful peer pressure in role-play, the student will independently verbalize or act out an appropriate solution to the scenario improving peer pressure skills from 0/10 opportunities in ten consecutive trials to 8/10 opportunities in ten consecutive trials.
A Hypothetical Situation Depicting Harmful Peer Pressure In A Third Person Social Story
By (date), when given a hypothetical situation depicting harmful peer pressure in a third-person social story, the student will independently verbalize an appropriate solution to the scenario improving peer pressure skills from 0/10 opportunities in ten consecutive trials to 8/10 opportunities in ten consecutive trials.