Understanding Feelings
What Are We Doing to Teach Students Emotional Intelligence?
“We assume second graders don’t know how to multiply, how to divide, and how to read. As we should,” he says. “Why do we assume second graders know how to self-regulate, self-manage, or even be empathetic?”
Roni points to the Common Core State Standards, which has a section titled “What is Not Covered by the Standards.” In this section, says Roni, “there is a line that says ‘social, emotional, and physical development’ are not covered in the standards. Which can only make sense if you live alone in a cave.”
Roni Habib
Roni Habib
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.
- Responsive Classroom Understanding Feelings
Fostering Emotional Literacy Begins With the Brain
Teaching elementary students the neuroscience of emotions helps them understand their feelings and empowers them to respond with intentionality.
- Emotions Color Wheel Offers a powerful visual tool to help one group feelings, and accurately label and define emotions.
- Greater Good site specifically for educators.Highlights include:
- Research-based and informed practices for cultivating positive relationships within schools; supporting the social and emotional needs of students and the adults who work with them; and for integrating SEL, mindfulness, and ethical development within academic content
- Research-based evidence for each practice that explains how a practice works and why it should be used in classrooms and schools
- Personal dashboards for users to save, rate, and comment on practices
- Guidelines for making a practice trauma-informed; for evaluating a practice through a diversity, equity, and inclusion lens; and for adapting a practice
- 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.
- Habits of Mind – I think this is an awesome place to help teachers facilitate and assess Communication and more. Check out the free resources page which even has some wonderful posters. One of my favorites is the rubrics found on this research page. Decide on spending some time because there are a lot of great resources.
- Louisville Schools resources for elementary and middle school Includes manuals, activities, references Resources
- Responding to Misbehavior with Empathy
- Stories That Foster Empathy in the Classroom The Global Oneness Project has created an Empathy Collection of 15 stories and lesson plans to foster empathy in the classroom. Through the multimedia stories, students meet individuals from different backgrounds and visit communities in different geographic locations facing challenging global issues, such as climate change, drought, gentrification, immigration, migration, poverty, and war. Each story and lesson examines these issues from a humanistic perspective.
- Fraidy Cats' Book of Courage.
The first half of the book contains comics featuring the title
character talking about situations that make him scared and ideas for
dealing with those feelings. The second half of Fraidy Cats' Book of Courage contains pages for students to write on in response to prompts. www.freetech4teachers.com
- Using movement and Creative Dramatics to Promote SEL
- Character (Every) Day Mobile App the
app includes over 5,000 curated resources to help develop character
strengths -- like empathy, courage, humor, self-control, perseverance,
and many more. You can filter the materials by specific character
strength, age appropriateness, and type of resource. You can also save
and share lists, such as articles to read on your commute, books to read
on vacation, or films to watch with the family. Download for iPhone Download for Android
- Social Skills Toolbox
Includes specific lessons, graphic organizers, and workbooks to address
the communication and behavioral skills that impact socialization.
- 44 Books That Teach Empathy
- Films for middle schoolers that address empathy
- Moody Monster Manor - A fun iOS app for the younger kids for learning about their emotions through different games/activities.
- Feeling Electric tools
that use content and curriculum from The Electric Company to provide
opportunities to explore emotional vocabulary and self-expression.
- Sites To Learn “Feelings” Words
- Using Digital Games for SEL Assessment and Skill Building
- Empathy Toolkit
- Making Caring Common, a project of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, envisions a world in which children learn to care about others and the common good, treat people well day to day, come to understand and seek fairness and justice, and do what is right even at times at a cost to themselves. See resources page
- Digital Citizenship & Social and Emotional Learning. It contains a set of digital dilemmas that students may face at some point in their lives. Each dilemma comes with discussion questions to get students thinking and talking about character. Along with the questions, we've included some relevant digital citizenship lesson plans and suggested digital tools for building strengths -- like humility or perseverance
- Spent: (gr 7 - 12) Provocative, first-person look at poverty builds empathy
- Sit With Us app | android ( gr. 7 - 12) is a social app designed to help teens find a seat at lunch. After registering with a Facebook account or an email address, students can either search for tables welcoming other people at lunchtime or invite others to sit with them as they eat.
- 3rd World Farmer Serious sim about global issues shows struggles of poverty
- Cool School: (gr 1 - 3) Free simulator makes learning to resolve classroom conflicts fun
- Teaching Tolerance Videos and photo essays depict life experiences around the world. Use the Mix It Up activities to have students identify social boundaries at school, and then have them use primary-source documents to find similar boundaries in history.
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