What Does It Means to Be a Professional Teacher

Social skills are essential for long-term accomplishment. According to Howard Gardner, it is the ability to understand and manage one's own emotional state and the ability to understand and respond to other people. Difficulties with social skills, and deficits in social skills are found in different degrees across abilities as well as disabilities.
Difficulty managing one's own emotional state, especially or aggression in response to frustration is common in children with disabilities. Children for whom this is the primary disabling condition are often diagnosed with an emotional or behavioral disorders which may be designated as "emotional support," "severely emotionally challenged," or "conduct disorders." Many children with disabilities may be less mature than their typical peers, and may reflect less understanding of how to manage their own emotions. This article talks about social skills interventions for children with emotional/behavioral disorders. Using the author’s teaching experience and the answering of research on social skills training in schools, and investigating effective ways to facilitate children’s social skill development, the paper explains how social skills interventions can be accomplished through the use of a story-based method that uses telecommunications, cooperative learning and gaming, and various other activities. The article concludes that as teachers explore innovative ways to enhance students’ social competence; they also need to consider the complexity of learning social competence and how difficult it is for students to gain mastery. In conclusion, researchers in the field are encouraged to carry out both theoretical and experimental studies to explore the overall efficacy of social skills training in general, the effectiveness of particular methods, and to recognize more proven strategys that promote students’ social