The process through which all young people and adults acquire and apply the knowledge, skills, and attitudes to develop healthy identities, manage emotions and achieve personal and collective goals, feel and show empathy for others, establish and maintain supportive relationships, and make responsible and caring decisions.
What is Social Emotional Learning?
This program is research-based, curriculum that promotes the social-emotional development, safety, and well-being of children from Early Learning through Grade 8.
What is second-step?
The following are ways SEL promotes this:
Provides opportunity to build on all students’ assets
Helps to open the conversation about differences, self-awareness of identities
Promotes trusting relationships to develop across differences
What is equity?
This tool helps us meet the first SEL competency of self-awareness by helping students be able to identify how they feel.
What are check-ins?
In 1990’s, Kaiser Permante started this study. The outcome showed that trauma in children predicted negative health outcomes later in life.
What is Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES)?
The act of managing one’s thoughts and feelings to engage in goal-directed behaviors
What is self-regulation?
These activities encourage students to explore and reflect on social-emotional skills.
What are class meetings or advisory activities?
These skills help you create an inclusive, safe learning environment for all your students.
What are relationship skills?
It is appropriate to do check-ins during these times in class.
What is the beginning of class, the middle of class, the end of class?
Providing verbal positive reinforcement is a strategy to promote this in your classroom.
What is trauma sensitive?
A mindfulness moment is considered this kind of strategy.
What an SEL strategy?
These Second-Step projects give students the opportunity to make a difference in their school and community.
What are service learning projects?
A time/event where your identity (gender, race, ethnicity) were made obvious or important to you.
What is self-awareness?
Charades, create you own virtual background for each student to share, find a photo that represents you and share it with the class are all examples of this check-in activity.
What are ice breakers?
Behaviors of a student who has experienced trauma address this need.
What is avoiding danger?
The act of paying attention on purpose, in the present moment, without judgment. It’s being aware of your thoughts, feelings, and physical sensations with an attitude of curiosity and acceptance.
What is mindfulness?
One of the Second-Step activities we did that discussed how we could request assistance.
What is asking for help?
This skill address power relationships that discourage academic, social and emotional learning and making healthy choices.
What is Responsible Decision-Making?
This google tool, that Mrs.Smith called "useless", is a tool used for check-ins.
What are google forms?
According to the Fostering Resilient Learners handout, this can be disruptive to the teaching and learning process.
What is stress?
This is the name of the drive where you can find these resources.
What is the BMS SEL resources drive?
Each lesson is designed to last between ____ to ____ minutes.
What is 30 to 45 minutes?
This SEL game asks you a series of questions and gives you 2 choices.
What is would you rather?
Name of trivia game, that we played in the PLN, that can be used as a SEL check-in tool
What is kahoot?
Avoiding making demands, deep breathing exercises, respecting personal space and not screaming over a yelling child are all strategies used when doing this.
What is de-escalation?