"Instruction in emotional intelligence is not a quick fix or a one-time lesson. The best programs, says Elias, "take no less than three years" to get to a place where teachers are comfortable and students are showing the benefits. Cohen adds that while a growing number of school programs include elements of instruction aimed at a child's emotional needs, too many of those programs are fragmented, short-term, and not well-integrated into the regular curriculum or school structure. "Just as we don't expect kids to learn a language in a year, we don't expect kids to learn social and emotional skills in one year."
Edutopia Staff
Reading Curriculum Supporting Social–Emotional Learning
Read to Lead, grades 5–9. a free award-winning supplemental reading program from Classroom, Inc., is designed to increase literacy, leadership, and 21st-century skills. This research-based program embeds social–emotional learning throughout its modules by developing students’ decision-making, empathy, and goal-setting abilities, all while increasing their reading skills.
Child-Friendly Social–Emotional Video Series
A team of school psychologists and researchers at the University of Connecticut has developed a free program to get students to express their feelings or reduce anxiety. The science-backed program uses puppets in short videos to explain concepts and includes kits for students to create their own puppets.
20 ways to build classroom community and relationships
Program That Develops Social and Emotional Competencies
Available at no cost, the Harmony SEL program is designed to foster communication, connection, and community, both inside and outside the classroom, and develop boys and girls into compassionate and caring adults.
Wisdom: The World of Emotions is an adaptive social–emotional learning game offered by Better Kids for children aged 4–8. The app, available for iOS and Android devices, includes an SEL curriculum, SEL transitions, and SEL activities to support students’ emotional wellbeing.
Stages
Kids without emotional intelligence "Don't follow directions, continually go off-task, can't pay attention, and have difficulty working cooperatively.
Jonathan Cohen, president of the Center for Social and Emotional Education
Starting up advice:
- Cooperative learning is not only a learning principle but also a value, i.e., a way of life.This does not mean that students should never compete or never work on their own.
Using Explicit Instruction to Foster SEL Many students struggle to master crucial skills like resiliency and problem-solving. Here’s a four-step plan for teaching these skills.
- Keep in mind that, as with any new approach, there is going to be a transitional time during which things will not go as well as you hoped
- To create a cooperative atmosphere it entails classbuilding first. This means working to build a feeling of trust and solidarity among all the members of the class
- Developing a set of behaviors , policies or norms. No matter how well children can describe respectful and safe ways to behave, no matter how many times they have successfully practiced, they will sometimes either accidentally or purposely forget established procedures. This happens most when they are excited, discouraged or tired.
- Social Emotional Learning Activity Templates for Google Jamboard
- Five Quick Ways to Integrate Social-Emotional Learning
- Helping Students with Social-Emotional Challenges
- Empowering Students Through Digital Citizenship and Social-Emotional Learning
- Initially there may be awkward experiences. There will be a varying degree of success.
- Start simple with whole class or individual activities and build your groups step-by-step
- Make up groups yourself
- Seat students close to their group members
- start in pairs
- On some assignments have them do the work individually first, then meet or discuss with the group.
- Assign roles?
- Make your expectations of group behavior clear. "I expect see everyone staying with their group, contributing ideas, listening to each other, making certain everyone is included, make sure everyone understands and agrees.
- Observe and question while students are working. Make it clear to the group that it is responsible for making sure all members participate and know the answers.
- After each session, debrief, e.g., "What did your group do well today in working together? What could you do better tomorrow?" Let them know some positive things you observed.
Establishing Routines
- Strategy for getting students' attention when they are in groups. For instance, Flick the lights to signal stop talking which triggers passing the signal to others
- Practice routines with short group or pair activities of a few minutes
- Call attention to groups that are working well
- Routines may need to be changed if they are less effective over time.
- Jobs foster interdependence more
Even more than IQ, your emotional awareness and abilities to handle feelings will determine your success and happiness
Therapist John Gottman
Management Resources
- Review: Practical SEL strategies for every classroom
- Available at no cost, the Harmony SEL program is designed to foster communication, connection, and community, both inside and outside the classroom, and develop boys and girls into compassionate and caring adults. The freestanding lessons are combined as grade bands for prekindergarten and kindergarten, first and second grades, and fifth and sixth grades
- Resources and Games small cost but I think worth their value.
- Protocol to teach the signal for silence protocol.pdf
- Laughing Matters: Strategies to Build a Joyful Learning Community is an engaging leadership resource that offers practical strategies for bringing humor and fun into your school’s classrooms and culture.Book $
- Too Noisy is an iPad app (free and pro versions available) designed to help students learn to recognize the appropriate volume for conversations. The app measures the volume of the noise in a room and displays a meter indicating whether or not the the room is too noisy. Too Noisy has four situation settings that you can use in your classroom; silent, quiet, group, and class. You can adjust the sensitivity of the meter for each situation.
- Teaching Children to Disagree: interactive modeling
- Logical Consequences Consequences.pdf
- The Role of Emotion Co-Regulation in Discipline Helping students regain their calm after misbehavior doesn't mean there are no consequences—it ensures that the right lesson is learned.
- Empowering Teacher Language T-lang.pdf
- Y Chart Y-chart.pdf
- article The Versatility of the Y Chart
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Creating Classroom Rules - Students learn how develop classroom rules. (K-2)
- What's in a Rule?
- Caring Coupons
- Compliment Tickets
- More of, Less of
- When A “Good” Class Goes “Bad” (And Back To “Good” Again!)
- My School as a System - Students learn the concept of systems as it applies to their lives as well as their schools (6-8)