A guide to Social-Emotional Learning resources: books, tools, and materials to help the elementary classroom teacher support students.
Problem size vs reaction size is a big social skills topic. Need to know the basics of the size of problem size of reaction as it relates...
Use this list of free resources to use as social emotional learning activities to help you work with kids and young adults. As a special educator for 10 years, I can say without a doubt that we need more social emotional learning supports for kids and young adults. Some of my best days in the classr
Blurting, interrupting, talking out of turn… whatever you call it, this behavior can be an extremely distracting habit of some of our students. Julia Cook is one of my absolute FAVORITE authors when it comes to books that teach our students about social and emotional skills, and she has the perfect book that can open […]
Expected vs unexpected behavior can be tricky to teach to elementary students. There are five main steps to teaching these things...
Echolalia- Learn strategies for your Autism classroom. What echolalia is and how to reduce it with activities to decrease repetitive speech or non-authentic communication.
Teach kids self-regulation in the classroom and beyond with this collection of super fun Zones of Regulation activities, games, worksheets, and lesson plans!
Managing special needs behavior is quite different - and, therefore, requires different skills - than managing a gen ed classroom. Click here to read more.
Social and emotional learning, often known as SEL, is the process that helps kids learn critical skills, attitudes, and mindsets for social and emotional success. These skills cover five major areas: self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationships, and responsible decision-making. I
Teaching Character Education in the classroom is just as important as phonics and adding and subtracting.
Flexible thinking may be a buzzword you’ve heard in social skills but what is it and what is an example of flexible thinking? Here is what...
Teach children and students to be diligent people. This blog post contains a list of ways to teach perseverance to kids, and a link to teaching resources.
Here are some social skills worksheets I put together for my class. These are some of the issues we deal with on a daily basis. I bought some cute social skills books that I read prior to writing each lesson. "My Mouth is a Volcano" "How to be a Friend" and "How to lose all your Friends". To be honest, I had a particular student in mind when I bought each one of these books (you do not need the books to use the worksheets). I wrote the worksheets to represent some of their actual issues. I have more books on the way "I Want to do it My Way", "The Bad Case of Tattle Tongue" and "Sorry I Forgot to Ask". Check back for worksheets soon! http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Friends-Social-Skills-Worksheets
Social skills include the social knowledge, skills, and abilities that help all learners be successful. Learn more about social skills here, or consider some of these resources to get started right away. Use social skills task cards to target and discuss basic interactions, conversations, empath
Getting students to think flexibly can be hard in both understanding and practicing the skill. Incorporating some fun games like...
10 Ways School Counselings Can Help Kids With Worry: Use these strategies to help your students manage their worries at school.
The Pathway 2 Success SEL Curriculum is a complete social emotional learning curriculum designed for elementary learners. It provides lessons and activities to teach critical SEL skills for the entire year. It is filled with over 180 lessons and activities targeting skills for building confidence, d
Getting students to think flexibly can be hard in both understanding and practicing the skill. Incorporating some fun games like...
Expected vs unexpected behavior in the elementary classroom is essential. But what exactly is expected behavior vs unexpected behavior and...
Social emotional learning is the foundation of a successful classroom by creating an environment of inclusion and respect.
Help your students become more empathetic and compassionate with these social emotional learning lessons and activity ideas that are perfect for back to school or for building classroom community any time of the year. Pull out a copy of Each Kindness by Jaqueline Woodson and your students will be re
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Social and emotional learning, often known as SEL, is the process that helps kids learn critical skills, attitudes, and mindsets for social and emotional success. These skills cover five major areas: self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationships, and responsible decision-making. I
Friendship-building activities help children in K-3 develop strong social skills. When relationships are an important factor in education, kids succeed in school and life.
Helping students become better at regulating their own emotions seems to be an increasing priority for educators. But how do you teach emotional regulation?
Discover a comprehensive list of social emotional IEP goals for empowering students in their social skill development.
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
Social emotional learning is the foundation of a successful classroom by creating an environment of inclusion and respect.
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
Listening is such an important social skill, but then comes the question…how to teach listening skills? Let's dive right in ...
As we see more and more bullying and violence in school, it becomes especially important to build kindness in our students and classroom. Here are some simple ideas and FREEBIES for you! May contain affiliate links I have 2 books that I like to read with my class to highlight kindness. The first is an ... Read More about Build Kindness In Your Classroom and Schools
Expected vs unexpected behavior in the elementary classroom is essential. But what exactly is expected behavior vs unexpected behavior and...
7 ways to build classroom community and teach social-emotional skills each day during an SEL morning meeting.
It is so important to help our students build coping skills. Having coping skills will help our students with practice academics and build social skills. Here are some tips to help organize instruction, practice and generalization of coping skills Having effective coping skills not only helps the classroom run smoother, but there are other great […]
I've been a little MIA this week in the bloggy world. SCM is my excuse. SCM stands for Safe Crisis Management, so if you gotta problem wit...
I think we can all agree that if you are a teacher, you will occasionally come home stressed out, right? There are a variety of reasons for the stress. If the reason is due to a student with behavior problems I have a tip for you. You know the Oprah shows with Dr. Phil when he is talking to a guest and he says "how's that working for you?" When I find myself stressed out about a student and his/her behavior which is affecting the delivery of my instruction and the chemistry of my class, I ask myself "how's that working for me?" I write down the strategies that I have been using. Then I look at why those strategies don't work with this student. The next thing that I do is take careful documentation. I need to know what day and time of day the behavior is worse. Once I can see a pattern I can investigate to see why some days or times are better than others. Is Thursday morning a bad day? Maybe the student had an extracurricular activity the night before that caused the him/her to go to bed later than normal. Tired and cranky students are not at their best in the classroom. The behavior form below is a quick and easy form to use. Choose two target behaviors such as keep hands to himself/herself when lining up and blurts out during circle time lessons. Put a tally mark to document the number of reminders you give the student to keep hands to him/herself or about blurting. Click HERE to download this freebie. Looking for more tips? Check out my Behavior Management Pinterest board. Click on the picture below. Fern has a few tips about documentation to share with you, too. Be sure to hop over to her blog! Fern and I are adding something new this summer. Summer is a great time to catch up on your reading. I love to read teacher blogs and the latest teacher idea books. Stop by Fern's blog and my blog each week for Tuesday Teacher Tips. We hope you will share your ideas, too. Each week we will choose one person who shared a tip on our blog who will get a $10 shopping trip. We will announce the winner in the following Tuesday's post. The winner for this post will be announced on July 15th's post. The winner of last week's post is: Click HERE to read Kimberly's tip which is located in the comment section. Do you have a documentation tip to share? Be sure to include your email so I can contact you if you're the winner of the $10 shopping trip. Looking for more ideas? Check out these! An InLinkz Link-up
A super valuable library of over 30 emotional literacy activities and social emotional learning resources. Games, worksheets & activities.
