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I Can Problem Solve (ICPS) Kindergarten and Primary Grades

$47.00
1979

Myrna B. Shure

ISBN# 0-87822-429-7
Publication Date: 1992
Papercover, 454 pages

Summary

ICPS for Kindergarten and Primary Grades contains 83 lessons. Based on 25 years of meticulous research, ICPS has proven to be extremely effective in helping young children learn to resolve interpersonal problems and prevent antisocial behaviors. ICPS teaches children how to think, not what to think. It is a self-contained program that involves the use of games, stories, puppets, and role plays to make learning enjoyable. Each lesson contains a teacher script, reproducible illustrations, and a list of readily available materials.

Reviews

"These books can become a teacher's best friend in promoting children's critical social-thinking skills and in boosting a peace-making climate in the classroom."
-- Alice Sterling Honig, Day Care and Early Education

"The program teaches students to think about DIFFERENT solutions to specific problems, while empowering the children to take responsibility for their own behavior and change their behavior when the consequences are undesirable. . . Finally, and perhaps most importantly, ICPS can contribute to the reduction of behavioral maladjustment . . ."
-- Gloria C. Maccow, Communique, National Association of School Psychologists

"I highly recommend this book for any educator who has ever been frustrated by behavior problems in the classroom. It is a refreshingly practical approach to a common and difficult problem in many classrooms. This is definitely a book for those of us on the 'front lines' of our educational system."
-- Lou Ann Warren, East Texas School Study Council Newsletter

Contents

List of Complementary Applications
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Pre-Problem-Solving Skills
Introducing the ICPS Program: Teacher Script

  1. Is-Not
  2. Or-And
  3. Do-Do Not
  4. If I Say
  5. Who Am I Thinking Of?
  6. Some-All
  7. More Some-All
  8. If-Then
  9. Same-Different
  10. More Same-Different
  11. Two Things at the Same Time
  12. Before-After
  13. Before-After, Now-Later
  14. Review of ICPS Words
  15. How People Feel
  16. How Can You Tell?
  17. Happy-Sad: More How Can You Tell?
  18. Angry
  19. Might-Maybe, More How People Feel
  20. Are you Listening to Me?
  21. A Story
  22. Finding Out What People Like
  23. Do You Like?
  24. Do You Remember? Part I
  25. Do You Remember? Part II
  26. More Might-Maybe, Why-Because
  27. Afraid
  28. Let's Make Up a Story, Part I
  29. Let's Make Up a Story, Part II
  30. My ICPS Book, Part I
  31. Dilly the Duck, Part I
  32. Dilly the Duck, Part II
  33. Proud
  34. Frustrated
  35. A Good Time or Not a Good Time? Part I
  36. A Good Time or Not a Good Time? Part II
  37. Puppet Story: Robbie and Poppy
  38. A Story
  39. My ICPS Book, Part II
  40. Is That Fair?
  41. More About Fair, Version 1
  42. More About Fair, Version 2
  43. Impatient
  44. Let's Make Up a Story, Part III
  45. What Can I Do While I Wait?
  46. Worried-Relieved
  47. Find a Feelings Match
Problem-Solving Skills
Alternative Solutions
  1. What Else Can He Do? Part I
  2. What Else Can He Do? Part II
  3. What's That Problem? Part I
  4. Solve the Problem
  5. My ICPS Book, Part III
  6. A Story
  7. Introduction to Role-Playing
  8. Guess the Problem
  9. Puppet Story: Preferences and Solutions
  10. More Role-Plays With Puppets
  11. A Story
  12. ICPS Tic-Tac-Toe
  13. Poppy and Dilly, Part I
Consequences
  1. Mystery Sequence
  2. Story Continuation
  3. Interpersonal Mystery Sequence
  4. My ICPS Book, Part IV
  5. Uh-Oh, They're Fighting
  6. A Story
  7. Is That A Good Idea?
  8. What Might Happen Next? Part I
  9. What Might Happen Next? Part II
  10. Poppy and Dilly, Part II
  11. How Can This Be?
  12. Puppet Story: Would That Make You Happy?
  13. What Might Happen Next? Part III
  14. What Might happen Next? Part IV
Solution-Consequence Pairs
  1. What Might Happen If I Do That? Part I
  2. What's That Problem? Part II
  3. Imagine That
  4. Do I Know?
  5. What Might Happen If I Do That? Part II
  6. What Else Can I Do?
  7. Puppet Story: Reviewing Solutions
  8. A Story
  9. Final Review
Appendix A: Guidelines for Continued ICPS Teaching
Appendix B: ICPS Dialoguing Reminders
Appendix C: ICPS Word Concept Illustrations
Appendix D: Summary of ICPS Behavior Management Techniques

List of Complementary Applications

Interaction in the Classroom
ICPS Words: Is-Not
ICPS Words: Or-And
ICPS Words: Some-All
ICPS Words: If-Then
ICPS Words: Same-Different
ICPS Words: Before-After, Now-Later
Review of ICPS Words: Is-Not, Or-And, Some-All
If-Then, Same-Different, Before-After, Now-Later
Finding Out About Others' Feelings
Using the Dilly the Duck Story
ICPS Words: Proud, Frustrated
A Good Time, Not a Good Time
Fair or Not Fair?
ICPS Word: Impatient
Finding Solutions
Finding More Solutions
Dealing with Fighting
Is That a Good Idea?
ICPS Dialoguing
Asking Why
Integration in the Curriculum
ICPS Words: Is-Not
ICPS Words: Or-And
ICPS Words: Some-All
ICPS Words: If-Then
ICPS Words: Same-Different
ICPS Words: Before-After, Now-Later
Review of ICPS Words: Is-Not, Or-And, Some-All
If-Then, Same-Different, Before-After, Now-Later
Finding Out About Others' Feelings
Fair or Not Fair?
All ICPS Feeling Words
Adding Consequences

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