Whole Classroom SEL Techniques and Behavior Interventions, Activities & Instructional Practices To…
Build A Positive Classroom Community
- The neuroscience behind your class: Ideas for working with student diversity
- Cooperative learning structures to promote teamwork: Experiential activities
- Reduce classroom anxiety and increase student connection to lessons
- Build positive and effective learning-based classrooms
- Evidenced-based practices for the five core competencies of SEL
Develop Student Perseverance and Grit
- Growth vs fixed mindset: Research-based case studies
- Build perseverance: Video demonstrations
- Develop resilience toward rigorous and complex tasks
- Mistakes as opportunities and prevent fear of failure
Increase Student Self-Awareness
- Teach them how to assess their strengths and limitations Increase self-confidence, optimism and self-efficacy
- Help them identify emotions, thoughts and behaviors in different situations
- Teach self-discipline and goal-setting skills
- Self-monitoring techniques to track learning and academic behaviors Improve
Student Self-Regulation Skills
- Model positive self-talk and effective self-reflection
- Support executive-functioning needs
- Develop problem-solving skills and solving conflicts
- Manage and cope with emotions using evidencedbased frameworks
Develop Student Social Awareness
- Teach perspective taking and empathy
- Social anxiety techniques to reduce stress
- Lesson plans on social and ethical norms for behavior
Manage Disruptive Behavior
- Proactive and corrective measures
- Practical motivational incentives
- Strategies for the basic functions and needs of chronic misbehavior
Enhance Whole Class Positive Behavior Interventions
- Behavior strategies to support academic success
- Core elements of evidenced-based classwide reinforcement systems
- Lesson plans on character education
Respond to Trauma and Tragedy
- Strategies to positively support trauma impacted students
- Calm the stress response related to anxiety or depression
- Alternatives to zero-tolerance policies to help nurture resilience
- Mitigate stress through mindfulness exercises, goalsetting activities and group identity-building