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- Promote a sense of empowerment to develop social and emotional literacy. Providing structure, consistency, predictability, and choices is crucial for promoting students’ sense of empowerment and control.
- Encourage expression. Expressive tools help students process their experiences through the emotional centers of the brain, which are often less “defended” than the logic and reasoning centers.
- Reframing behaviors. Disruptive behaviors such as calling out, not completing work, teasing peers, and acts of defiance and aggression are often misinterpreted as intentionally attention seeking or “making bad choices.”
- Recognize warning signs of mental health needs. Teachers should, of course, also have tools that can be effectively utilized during an escalated behavior and prioritize safety above all.
- Start the day with a student check-in. For example, use the colors of a stoplight (green is good, yellow is not so good, and red means they need a break or more attention) or an emoji chart where students point to how they feel when they walk in the door.
- Create opportunities for partner and group work. This gives children the opportunity to flex SEL muscles and helps the teacher figure out partner pairings, such as a more outgoing child with a shy one, said Gass.
- Nurture a culture of kindness. In a competitive environment with rankings, acknowledge every student’s efforts.
- Build social-emotional vocabulary. Expand vocabulary out of mad, sad, and happy. Gass said she taught a 3-year-old the word “frustrated” by giving the toddler a difficult package to open, and then asking, “is it hard to do?”
By focusing on positive emotions, educators can help students develop the psychological, cognitive, and social resources needed to get the monkeys off their backs —those stressors, anxieties, distractions, burdens, and limiting beliefs that weigh them down—and keep them away.
- Address Student Needs. Remember that students, like adults, not have only physical needs, but also important psychological needs for security and order, love and belonging, personal power and competence, freedom and novelty, and fun.
- Create a Sense of Order. All students need structure and want to know that their teachers not only know their content area, but also know how to manage their classrooms.
- Greet Students at the Door Every Day. As students enter your classroom, greet each one at the door. Explain that you want students to make eye contact with you, give you a verbal greeting, or—depending on the age of the students—a high five, fist bump, or handshake.
- Let Students Get to Know You. Students come into the classroom with preconceived perceptions of teachers. Sometimes it’s good, but sometimes it can be an obstacle.
Dec 14, 2023 · Use the strength of your own social-emotional competence to create an emotionally healthy classroom for students. Start by reflecting on your own SEL skills. Identify your strengths and challenges with this Personal Assessment and Reflection Tool developed by the Collaborative for Academic and Social Emotional Learning.
Jul 4, 2023 · In this blog, we will explore how educators can cultivate Emotional Mastery to promote a positive classroom environment. Discover effective strategies, practical tips, and empowering techniques that will transform your teaching approach and foster an atmosphere of trust, empathy, and growth.
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Here are 3 practical classroom strategies to help develop habits of positive focus and enhance positive emotions: 3 Good Things + Gratitude Journalling. In workshops and on camps I teach students the power of focusing on 3 positive things which they have experienced during that day, or journalling about 3 things they have to be grateful for.
