This emotional check in worksheet is a great way to see how your students are feeling and how they are dealing with stress.
How can you promote neurodiversity in the classroom? Check out these neurodiversity-affirming practices for special education teachers!
Remote or distance learning was something that was mentioned but not really thought out until we were thrown into it in the spring of 2020. While academics always play a role in the learning process, one area that was severely neglected was the social – emotional learning of our students. It is no wonder why as ... Read more
Social and emotional intelligence is foundational to understanding ourselves and the people around us. The ability to form and maintain meaningful relationships carries such incredible weight and value. I heard a study recently that the impact of loneliness on health outcomes (life expectancy,
Learn effective ways to open up conversations about mental health with your students, creating a supportive environment.
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
This post shares different books that teach social-emotional skills that can be used for inside and outside of the classroom.
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Using this anger thermometer worksheet, students will reflect on situations where they feel angry and brainstorm ideas for how to calm down.
Click HERE to get the resource! This Worry Workbook is exactly what you need for those students who suffer with anxiety. It includes social emotional learning and self-regulation activities to supp…
Year after year, the students arriving in my classroom are exhibiting more signs of mental health problems. From anxiety to depression to anger, I've seen it
Learn effective ways to open up conversations about mental health with your students, creating a supportive environment.
Social emotional learning (SEL) is an integral part of education today. Check out these various ways to incorporate SEL activities today!
Social emotional education in the classroom can be hard to fit in, BUT it is possible. Read to learn ways to do it and how to keep it FUN!
It’s true…IEP season is nearly upon us. And with that comes lots of meetings and LOTS of paperwork. It probably won’t surprise you to know, but the thing I hate most about IEP’s is writing goals. Sure, I’ve been taught probably 10 different times how to write measurable, strong IEP goals, but for some reason ...
Year after year, the students arriving in my classroom are exhibiting more signs of mental health problems. From anxiety to depression to anger, I've seen it
Teach children about respect, honesty, and gratitude at school and in the classroom with these social-emotional learning lessons and hands-on activities for kids.
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
Through literature, students can be exposed to mental health issues varying in severity and complexity. A novel creates a safe space for students to explore this sometimes uncomfortable topic, while also humanizing the individuals who suffer from mental health issues. Here's 7 novels dealing with metal health issues that I would recommend to high school students as great starting points for discussions about and further research into mental health issues.
Wellness Triangle Lessons: Teaching your students about holistic well-rounded health? You'll love these wellness triangle activities! Begin by challenging the view of "health" as physical fitness and healthy eating and help your students see that mental, emotional, and social health are equally important in a balanced, healthy lifestyle. With interactive examples and activities to make predictions about effects, your students will see how deficits in one area can affect other areas of health. In the second lesson, students will complete a wellness triangle self assessment to see how they are currently doing in their physical, mental/emotional, and social health. These activities are great for upper elementary or middle school classroom guidance lessons or small group counseling activities. What's included: →2 Detailed, easy to use lesson plans →Introductory PowerPoint →Note taking handouts for interactive notebooks or regular handouts →4 Scenario cards →Blank scenario cards for students to create their own and trade with other groups →30 self assessment cards to be used as a scoot, scavenger hunt, or "walk the room" activity →Student handouts for self assessment ADDITION: digital self assessment cards for distance learning (can be used in Google Slides/Google Classroom) Terms Copyright © Counselor Keri, Keri Powers Pye. All rights reserved by author. This product is to be used by the original downloader only. Copying for more than one teacher, classroom, department, school, or school system is prohibited. This product may not be distributed or displayed digitally for public view. Failure to comply is a copyright infringement and a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Clipart and elements found in this PDF are copyrighted and cannot be extracted and used outside of this file without permission or license. Intended for classroom and personal use ONLY. See product file for clip-art and font credits.
A great tool for students to reflect on inappropriate behavior is a Think Sheet. Use it when a student breaks a rule or doesn’t meet expectations for behavior.
Discover effective social-emotional teaching strategies and activities to foster responsibility and other essential skills in your classroom.
Jamboard templates make it really easy to fit social emotional activities into your elementary classroom! Use Jamboard to talk about growth mindset, self-awareness, problem solving skills and more.
Genuine compliments help develop friendships, promote a positive classroom culture, and instill kindness in interactions. In this lesson, students will understand what giving compliments should look like and what it shouldn't look like. The lesson provides scaffolded instruction, practice activities, and opportunities for reflection. The winter theme will help target key social-emotional skills while engaging with students.This lesson could easily be used for students who need explicit instruction and additional practice with social pragmatics. What You Get 3-Step Mini-Lesson on Giving Compliments. This mini-lesson provides different options so you can differentiate for your students’ skills and ages. It also provides more activities than would typically be covered within a lesson to help you reinforce skills later and have more choice in the structure of your lesson. 4 Anchor Charts: Compliments are … Compliment a Fictional Character Worksheet and Character Cards Compliment Brainstorm Page Compliment Sort: Snowball Bucket, Snowball Compliments Follow-Up Class Activity Ideas Compliment Sentence Starters Exit Tickets Details This resource is forclassroom teachers, school counselors, or other school staff looking to integrate social emotional learning into the classroom. It can be used as a whole group, small group, or individual lesson.
Today I'm excited to have Corrina from From Mrs. Allen's Teaching Files here to share a really fun and exciting activity to use when talking about self control. Self control is such a hard
Use this Conflict Resolution for Kids Step by Step Guide to help elementary students resolve conflicts and problems peacefully.
Use these behavior visual reminders to aid positive behavior in your classroom management plan. Use for behavior management & social skills, self regulation, coping strategies, conflict management, emotion control and peer relationships. This packet contains ****Please note. The files in this product are Microsoft powerpoint. Please make sure that you have the appropriate software to open powerpoint on your computer**** ***Purchase this product along with other behavior tools/ supports in one of my bundles. Click on the link to check this bundle out:*** BUNDLE: Behavior management, supports and activities. Social skills. This product is designed to provide portable and easily accessible visual reminders to help students successfully and independently demonstrate appropriate behaviors across a wide variety of social, classroom, and school wide activities/interactions. Students can wear these bracelets during times when they are likely to engage in in-appropriate behaviors or when they may need an extra reminder of the appropriate behaviors that they need to exhibit. Included are 50 different premade bracelets that can be printed off and immediately put to use. Bracelets are available in both 4 step (4 square) and 3 step (3 square) visual sequences. Each bracelet is also available in either a low ink or color option. Should your student require personalized/individualized bracelets, the pre-made bracelets are also editable (title AND behavior visual tiles). Additionally, blank bracelets are provided (with editable titles) along with over multiple different behavior visual tiles (also editable) that can either be physically cut and paste OR electronically transferred onto each bracelet to provide the ultimate personalized visual cues specific for your student. Visual tiles include: -Positive behaviors (raise hand, hands to self etc) -Self calming behaviors (deep breaths, close my eyes etc) -Negative behaviors (don’t hit, don’t yell etc) *****Bracelets targeting specific social skills can be found in a separate product (click on the link)*** Social skills visual bracelets Should your student not want to wear these as a bracelet, the ‘bracelets’ can be printed and then attached to lanyards/ bookrings etc. Specific ‘pre-made’ bracelets include: When I need help (x4) Walking in the hall (x2) When I feel mad (x2) When I’m playing with friends (x2) When I am given a direction When my teacher is talking (x2) When I’m doing my work When I make a mistake (x2) When my work is tough (x2) When I want to answer in class During programs/assemblies (x2) In the library (x2) Before I do something When I am told ‘no’ If someone teases me If it is too loud (x2) If I don’t want to play When I am sat on the rug (x4) When I can’t find something If someone calls me a name When I lose a game ‘When I am reading During recess (x2) When I get to school (x2) When I eat lunch (x2) When I get my lunch When it is dismissal (x2) When I finish my work (x2) Working on the computer When I’m done with the computer
This impulse control printable asks students to think through both the impulsive and thoughtful responses to different situations.
These are five of the ways I teach emotions in my classroom! Explicit instruction on emotions helps students better understand themselves.
Learn effective ways to open up conversations about mental health with your students, creating a supportive environment.
The perfect social-emotional learning activities for the K-3 classroom. Help students develop a growth mindset, friendships, and more.
Share your school values from the moment your students enter the front door.
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Check out these 22 easy ways you can integrate and use social emotional learning in your classroom that won't take up a lot of time.
Kids and young adults need social-emotional skills to be successful at school, home, and for the rest of their lives. These are the skills that help kids build confidence, understand their own strengths and weaknesses, collaborate with others, navigate social situations, develop strong relationships
Social Emotional Learning (SEL) has been found to promote academic success and increase students' commitment to school. Generally, there are five key components that make up social emotional learning. These competencies include self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship skills, and decision making. Today, I'd like to focus on ways to help students develop self-awareness. Self-awareness includes one's ability to recognize emotions, have an accurate self-perception, identify strengths, develop confidence, and show self-efficacy. Researchers have found that a student's ability to control his or her feelings, thoughts, and behaviors can be linked to academic success. So, let's take a look at some easy ways to help students develop an awareness of their individual characteristics and personal emotions. All About Me - A - Z This activity helps students to define and identify a variety of aspects about themselves. They'll create a list about themselves with a characteristic, quality, or emotion for each letter of the alphabet. Materials: Piece of paper, pen or pencil Directions: - On a piece of paper, have students create two columns. (Or grab a ready-made poster here.) - Have them write all the letters of the alphabet in each column. - Then, challenge them to write something about themselves for each letter. For instance, they might write "gregarious" for G or "curious" for C. Ideas: - Share your own A to Z list with students first. - Create a class list of emotions and descriptive words to get students started. - Assemble students' finished lists in a class book. Moment of Mindfulness Mindfulness is a great way to build self-awareness. Since mindfulness is all about paying attention to the present moment, it's a great way for students to pause and reflect on how they are feeling, what they are thinking, and what they need in the present. It's simple to do too! Ways to take a moment of mindfulness: - At the beginning of class, have students close their eyes and take several deep breaths. Ask students to pay attention to their breathing. - Share a mindfulness quote with students to help focus students' thoughts during a moment of mindfulness. - Pause during instruction and have students do a self-awareness check. Encourage them to be mindful of their thoughts and feelings. Reflective Journaling Reflective journaling is a powerful way to help students become self-aware. With targeted writing prompts, students can develop insight into their feelings, make sense of their experiences, and build clarity on their thoughts. When students write about their own experiences and feelings, they become more self-aware. Materials: - A notebook and/or computer, pen or pencil, writing prompts - A list of writing prompts that spark self-reflection, these might include: --- Write about a time when you were proud of yourself. --- List ten things that make you feel excited. --- Reflect on how you have changed this year. --- What is something that you find challenging? (Check out a set of 10 engaging prompts here.) Ideas: - Have students respond to their prompts as if they are writing a letter to themselves..."Dear me..." - Read students' responses and respond to their writing in the margins. Add questions and positive notes at the end of their writing to build connections and spark further reflections. - Schedule a time each day or week for journaling to make it an intentional part of your classroom community. Growth Mindset There are many ways to help students develop a growth mindset. When students develop an understanding that all forms of intelligence are malleable, they are inspired to work toward success. That's why it is so powerful to infuse lessons about growth mindset into instruction. Giving students a moment to reflect on their own mindsets builds self-awareness. Materials: - Short lessons or articles about Growth Mindset to help students understand the differences between a fixed and growth mindset. - Series of questions about students' own mindsets. Directions: - After teaching students about Growth Mindset, have students respond to questions about their own mindsets. - Give students a chance to share their responses with a partner, small group, or the entire class. Ideas: - Share and display inspirational quotes about growth mindset. (I particularly love paper desk tents. They are an easy way to display quotes right on students' desks.) - Highlight important people who demonstrate a growth mindset. Emotions Skits Researchers have noted that there are at least six universal emotions. These include happiness, sadness, anger, surprise, fear, and disgust. Help students investigate and demonstrate these universal emotions by challenging them to write a short play or skit that involves a character or many characters experiencing one of the universal emotions. Materials: - List of the universal emotions, paper, pen - Skit planning pages (optional) Ideas: - Review the six universal emotions with students. As a class have students brainstorm what each emotion looks like (how people look when they are experiencing that emotion) and sounds like (what people might say when experiencing that emotion). - Brainstorm situations where people might feel each emotion. Encourage students to share personal situations when they felt a certain way. - Divide students into small groups. Secretly assign each group an emotion. - Challenge students to write a script that their small group could act out for the class that demonstrates that emotion. - Have small groups perform for the class. Have the audience identify the emotion prevalent in the skit. Self Check-In Daily feelings check-ins are a great way to build self-awareness. When students are given the opportunity to assess how they are feeling and share their emotions with others, they begin to know themselves more fully. Self check-ins also help normalize feelings. Materials: - Paper with an open grid shape - List of feelings Directions: - Pass out the gridded paper to students. - Have them fill the grid with different emotions. - Then, have students display the grid on their desks. - Have them place a token or shape on the emotion that shows how they are feeling at a particular moment. Ideas: - Once students can recognize their feelings, help them to develop strategies for regulating their emotions. - Encourage students to track their feelings over an entire school day. Then, discuss how feelings change in different situations. -------------------------------------------------- I hope you've found a few ways to help students develop self-awareness. Incorporating lessons that target social emotional learning is essential in today's classrooms. If you're looking for ready-made resources, check out this set of 10 SEL reading passages and this set of 6 Self-Awareness Activities. Thanks for stopping by! Mary Beth
Students with autism and related disabilities often struggle with self-regulation. They have meltdowns and catastrophic reactions to seemingly small things. These calm down tools can help any students relax and handle changes or frustrations with social stories and visual supports. Find out more in this post.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is an approach with a strong research base that is easy to implement in a school setting. The problem for us in elementary schools is that it is meant for students who are at least 8 years old. That recommended age is for good reason too. A lot of the concepts
