Hearts and Hands...together in learning

The goal of all six modules is to assist teachers in examining who they are as individual teachers and to help them analyze how to combine their personal qualities and strengths with their teaching skills. These modules have been well-received in districts and may be contracted individually or in any combination. Instruction in Social and Emotional Learning assists teachers by strengthening their SEL skill set and learning to embed SEL into classroom content and relationship building. Item description

Part 1: What You Said About You: Survey in four sections to be completed one week prior to training:

Survey sections:

Teacher well-being

Belonging

Roles and Responsibilities

Teacher self-reflection

Part 2: Self-Care is NOT Self-Indulgence

Why teachers’ emotions matter

Connection to:

Attention

Memory

Learning

Impact on decision-making

Relationship Building

Health and well-being

Impact on performance

Self-care

Creating Self-care plans

Part 1:

Establish your current thinking about SEL: Survey to be completed one week prior to training.

What you are already doing (SEL) in your classroom and school

What your survey data says about your SEL knowledge and experiences

SEL defined

SEL background and supporting research for embedding SEL

Part 2:

SEL Framework: CASEL (Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning)

Brain Science and Emotion: the connection to SEL

The teenage brain and the impact on SEL skills and academic achievement

SEL National Standards

New Jersey SEL Competencies

SEL and educational equity

Part 3:

Examining grade appropriate SEL skills

Touching on State of Illinois SEL as a sample

How is SEL measured?

What can I do tomorrow?

Embedding SEL into your instruction

Collegial SEL conversation and strategy sharing

SEL resources

What is Whole Child Education?

Background: Whole Child Education

Human Relationships: Impact on Whole Child Approach

ASCD: The Five tenets of Whole Child Education

Healthy

Safe

Engaged

Supported

Challenged

Why Whole Child Education is necessary?

Strategies for the classroom

Why connect?

Intentionality in building rapport

Cat or Dog Analogy to better understand your students

Social awareness activity

How does body language send messages to our students?

Self-awareness activity

Examining your rapport toolbox

Successes and Fails

The First Five Minutes of the Year

Learning how to honor your students

We start with a story of resilience

Julian Rotter and Locus of Control

Survey: Where is your Locus of Control? (short survey completed in session)

How does that fit into your personal resilience skill set?

Resilience v. Grit

Six Steps to Fostering Resiliency (N. Henderson)

The Resiliency Wheel (N. Henderson)

Doors Closed/Doors Open activity

Video: on resiliency: True Story

How do we build resilience in our students?

More strategies to foster resilience

Activities with your students to build resilience

Part 1: Keeping it REAL

Dynamic v. static learning

How can teachers create a dynamic learning environment that reaches all students?

Engage teachers in R.E.A.L. learning activities: Relevant; Engaging; Authentic and Learner-centered

This portion of the module will explore how teachers can unite the following: integrating technology, developing problem-solving and critical thinking skills anchored in SEL strategies

Participants will begin by examining performance-based objectives and dissect them to identify experiences students will need to meet with success

Participants will work in small groups to develop a toolbox of ideas and strategies they can use in their classrooms

Part 2: Keeping it Fun

Why do you teach? Rediscovering why we do what we do

Revisiting your teacher roots: Teacher reflection

Connecting with your students …again and again

How emotion connects to understanding, learning and memory

Building an ethic of care

Reverse assumptions: Student assumptions about teachers

Joy is receiving

Ways to keep joy in the journey: (and ways to keep your class interesting!)