Throughout my years teaching middle school, I have had the experience of seeing many "work refusals". These are the situations when kids, for a variety of reasons, just refuse to start the work you give them. They might shut down and rest their head on their desk or lash out in anger, shouting about
How to help your students understand what "flipping their lid" means and gain their investment and excitement in calming their brains down!
Emotional Disturbance on your IEP: Understand the criteria for this category, plus ideas and accommodations.
Explore the characteristics of children with emotional and behavioral disorders, as well as strategies for teaching these student.
Exploring research-based systems and strategies to use in your middle school or high school classroom when difficult classroom behaviors arise
A guide to Social-Emotional Learning resources: books, tools, and materials to help the elementary classroom teacher support students.
For many students, sixth grade marks the beginning of middle school. Middle school students thrive on independence and responsibility. Effective teachers recognize this and create classrooms to accommodate these student needs. Therefore, we have developed an awesome list of 15 favorite classroom management strategies for you to implement in your classrooms.
Of course, many popular movies deal with social and emotional issues, and these can be great for teaching SEL in our classrooms.
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Working with kids and young adults who are oppositional can be challenging. Being oppositional might mean refusing to do work, breaking rules, and engaging in other challenging behaviors. The truth is, many kids can be oppositional from time to time, so many of these strategies work with all learner
Guide to Supporting Students with Emotional Disturbance: 1. Understanding Emotional Disturbance 2. Creating a Supportive Environment 3. Collaborative Intervention Strategies 4. Implementing Classroom Strategies 5. Addressing Social and Emotional Learning
A teacher’s guide to teaching social-emotional learning in the classroom. This guide has articles, children's book suggestions, videos, and a program filled with lessons and activities.
neurodiversity in the Montessori Classroom learning needs of a wide variety of students, and how the inclusion of all students is normalized.
Anyone who knows me, reads this blog, or uses my resources knows that I am passionate about differentiation. I think that is because I grew ...
When a child has extreme behaviors, a lot of time, energy, and staff support goes towards intervening in crises, identifying needs, evaluating precipitating factors, considering the functions of the behaviors, and securing needed support for " that student." But what about the rest of t
Overview: Now more than ever our middle school students need social and emotional support in the classroom. This digital cool down corner is specifically designed for middle school students. This Google Form offers a discreet, effective, and convenient tool for use within the classroom. Students are guided through the cool down process, allowing them to assess their emotions, select a coping strategy, and reflect on the process. An embedded timer provides structure so that you can continue teaching while students use the cool down system. Did I mention that this can be completed at the student's desk? In a safe space? At home? Simply push the form out when needed using your device management tool or add a link to your digital classroom for 24/7 access. Why You'll Love It: Low-prep, download and go. No need to set up a physical cool down space Discreet delivery method means that students do not feel singled out Attaching a spreadsheet allows for convenient, timestamped data collection for all cool down interventions Age appropriate clipart is inviting without feeling overly childish Multiple students can access a cool down at the same time Benefits of a traditional "safe space" with a mature feel You can customize emotion and intervention strategies by deleting or adding your own Students Will: Identify their emotions Select an intervention Complete an intervention using the self-paced, embedded timer Complete a short reflection/emotion reassessment Alert the teacher when they have completed the intervention Return to regular instruction Included in this Resource: - Digital Cool Down Corner Google Form Terms of Use: You May: Use free and purchased items for your own classroom students, or your own personal use. Reference this product in blog posts, at seminars, professional development, workshops, or other such venues, ONLY if both credit is given to myself as the author, and a link back to my TpT store is included in the presentation. Purchase licenses at a great discount for other teachers to use this resource. You May Not: Claim this work as your own, alter the files in any way, or remove copyright / watermarks. Sell the files or combine them into another unit for sale / free. Post this document for sale / free elsewhere on the internet (this includes Google Doc links on blogs). Making copies of purchased items to share with others is strictly forbidden and is a violation of the TOU / law. Clipart and fonts for cover images credit to: Educlips, Hello Literacy, KG Fonts
The perfect social-emotional learning activities for the K-3 classroom. Help students develop a growth mindset, friendships, and more.
This blog post shares five tips on navigating the challenges and effectively running circle time in a limited verbal classroom.
Strategies for defiant behavior that support positive behavior, develop teacher-student relationships, and minimize escalating situations.
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Having stuffed animals in the classroom can provide emotional comfort and academic support. Here are five ways you can use stuffed animals in the classroom.
Having stuffed animals in the classroom can provide emotional comfort and academic support. Here are five ways you can use stuffed animals in the classroom.
How can you address the social emotional needs of your students, even online? After reading this blog post, you'll know how to use the 5 A's to create a trauma sensitive classroom environment for your students.
A bundle of free zones of regulation printables that you can download and use as a supplement to the Zones of Regulation curriculum.
Let's talk about disrespectful behaviors in the classroom. The child who talks back. The student using their cell phone, even after being told to put it away. The kid who refuses to do their work, and even loudly tells you, "no!" when you try to politely give some encouragement. The student who joke
Helping students become better at regulating their own emotions seems to be an increasing priority for educators. But how do you teach emotional regulation?
Creating a Calm Down Corner in Your Preschool Classroom Young children are just learning how to process their emotions and how to interact with others. A
Every year there are students with challenging behaviors that disrupt, well, everything. Daily crises take over your schedule and they seem unresponsive to intervention plans. Teachers and staff are exhausted. The calls to "do something" (aka discipline) grow louder. I'm guessing if you landed on this post you are looking for more than another sticker
Use the posters to help create a kind and respectful classroom.
Inside out 2 emotion posters Each emotion is an A4 poster size It has ways to manage the emotions and cope with them Digital download only
Student-centered discipline is a key teaching technique to promote and encourage social emotional learning in the classroom and school community.
Breathing exercises are a great tool for teaching children self-regulation skills. This set includes 9 different, fun shapes that children can trace and practice breathing. You will also get a BONUS Rainbow grounding technique poster.Once you purchase you'll be able to instant download high resolution, 300dpi ready to print JPG files, sized 8.5x11" (letter sized). You will also be able to download a PDF with all of the above.
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We want to create an environment in our classroom that encourages and teaches empathy. Children tend to be egocentric and need to be explicitly taught to recognize others' feelings and how to respond to those feelings. This will build classroom community and foster an environment of kindness in your elementary classroom. In this unit of mini lessons, we will teach students what empathy is, how to identify and respond to feelings, and why having empathy is important. Each activity is meaningful and engaging, which will lead to a classroom of empathetic students and learners. I use the book Empathy is Your Super Power by Cori Bussolari as the read aloud for the week. I like that it takes students through different scenarios and how to apply empathy to those different situations. You can then model using empathy in different situations throughout your day. When you see students modeling empathy, be sure to point it out to the class. The more you do this, the more these behaviors will be embedded into your classroom community. If you see a situation in which a student could have used empathy, address that with that student. Let them have a do over so that they can build that into their muscle memory! We read the whole text on Monday and Friday, and read only small portions on the other days of the week, much like an interactive read aloud. I include scripted mini daily lesson plans, as well as questions to ask during the read aloud to spark those important discussions. We want to teach students what empathy is, the understanding of the feelings and experiences of another. I like to tell them that it's like putting yourself in someone else's shoes. We make this anchor chart together, and I teach students four questions to ask themselves when they are in a situation in which they can apply sympathy. 1. What emotions is that friend feeling? 2. Why do they feel this way? 3. How would I feel if I were in that situation? 4. What can I say or do to help? Students get their own mini anchor chart to add to their own Social Emotional Learning Notebooks that they can always refer to later. You can also teaching students this Empathy Song. It also helps them to remember the steps of applying empathy. One of the most important skills you can teach your students is being able to recognize others' feelings or emotions. Show students a picture of an emotion and have them name the feeling. You can then ask them to give examples of times when they might have this emotion. Then, have them describe how they could respond if someone else has this feeling. We also make this Empathy Glasses to remind them that we are viewing a situation through another's eyes! They can use these when looking at the emotion on the cards. On Wednesday, we play a game, and this week is the In Your Shoes Empathy Game. You can play this in small groups or divide the class into two teams for a whole group game. The shoes are the game pieces and the cards each contain a scenario. They roll the dice to see how many spaces to move. If they land on draw a card, they choose a card and have to answer the empathy question. This gives students lots of practice responding to situations in which empathy should be applied. Our SEL animal character for the unit is Empathy Elephant. His poem reminds students to see a situation through someone else's eyes. On the last day of the unit, students will apply what they have learned. In the text, the author says that empathy is contagious. They have to explain what that means. Hopefully, their empathetic acts will also be contagious in your classroom! Empathy is one of those skills that can have a major impact on your whole classroom. We need to encourage our students to be empathetic and generous so that they will carry on those acts outside of the classroom and into adulthood. Can you imagine how much better our world would be if everyone showed empathy?! If you are in need of some quick but meaningful activities for teaching empathy, you can grab them HERE or by clicking any of the photos. Thank you so much for reading!
