Self-Advocacy Skills for Students
Email Etiquette & Talking to Teachers
- Grades
- Grades 6–12
- Formats
- Google Slides, PDF, PowerPoint
- Pages
- 30
- Answer keys
- Included
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Teach students how to speak up for themselves and email teachers the right way. This self-advocacy and email etiquette unit for middle and high school helps students name their strengths and needs, ask for help clearly and respectfully, write professional emails, and handle real situations like extensions, missed work and grade questions, with role-plays and an IEP/504 student participation page.
What's included
- Teacher guide with 5-day pacing, materials and differentiation (support, on level, challenge)
- Standards page (CASEL, ASCA Student Standards, CCSS Writing and Speaking & Listening) with contents
- What Is Self-Advocacy? notes: passive vs. assertive vs. aggressive, with practice
- Strengths & Needs Inventory (14 ratings, learning preferences, strengths) + My Self-Advocacy Profile
- How to Ask for Help: 5 steps, 6 sets of sentence starters, weak ask vs. strong ask practice
- Who, When & How? planning page (8 real situations)
- Parts of a Professional Email (labeled model email) + Email Do's & Don'ts
- Good Email or Bad Email? 6 drawn emails to annotate, a 7-point scoring sheet and discussion questions
- Rewrite the Email practice with partner check
- 3 fill-in scripts (in person + email): asking for an extension, catching up on missed work, asking about a grade
- 12 role-play scenario cards (teachers, a substitute, a coach, a counselor, a part-time job manager) + observer checklist and reflection
- IEP/504 student participation page + Know & Use Your Accommodations page
- 4 exit tickets and a 10-question Self-Advocacy Quick Check
- Real Email Task with a 20-point rubric
- Complete answer keys, sample rewrites, a model role-play and an exemplar email
How to use it
Use it in advisory, homeroom, school counseling lessons, freshman seminar, special education, resource room or transition planning. Run it as a 5-day unit or use single lessons before conferences, report cards or IEP season. Print and go: just cut the role-play cards.
Skills practiced
Self-advocacyasking for helpprofessional email writingassertive communicationself-awarenessIEP/504 participation
