Social Skills - Impressions from Appearances

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Welcome to my Impressions from Appearances activity. Check out this excerpt from the training video I did for the New York City Department of Education. We start with Impressions from Appearances. Basically, I want to increase my students' awareness of the fact that everything about them gives others impressions of them. So we'll start off with looking at one of us at a time, usually I'll go first tonight. If any student is hesitant of being judged, I'll never make them take a turn, but I'll usually start with myself and we'll go from top to bottom: my hair color, the length of my hair, you know, what I'm wearing, what shoes I have on, and for each aspect of my appearance we'll fill in a possible impression. Usually, my hair doesn't look like this - it's usually very curly and wild looking. So, when they put wild, curly hair, it may give an impression let's say that I'm disorganized, or not neat. So we go through all the possible impressions, and then whoever was judged, let's say I went first so it would be me, starting off, I'm going to look at every possible impression and I'm going to say whether that's actually reflective of who I am or not, because I also want them to understand that when people get impressions of them from their appearance, those impressions often may not be correct. Thanks for viewing my description of this activity. If you like what you've seen here, please click and subscribe to my channel. Not exactly sure what that means but my web guy told me it's a thing!

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