Everyday SEL in High School

Integrating Social-Emotional Learning and Mindfulness Into Your Classroom
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-138-20783-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 188 Seiten, Format (B × H): 253 mm x 182 mm, Gewicht: 486 g

With this new book from educational consultant Carla Tantillo Philibert, you’ll gain practical strategies for teaching Social-Emotional Learning (SEL), mindfulness, movement, and team-building to help your students grow into contributing and compassionate citizens of the world. You’ll find out how to lead students through meditation activities, simple yoga poses, breathing techniques, and other practicalmethods to help you proactively manage your classroom by meeting your students’ SEL needs. Topics include:

Empowering your students to understand their emotions, improve their focus, manage stress, and regulate their behavior
Introducing your students to the concept of mindfulness and how it fits within the SEL framework
Crafting an emotionally, physically, and mentally safe classroom climate and culture
Engaging your students in activities to strengthen peer-to-peer communication, community-building, and leadership skills
Providing your students the safe space to test their SEL skills through experiential learning, team work, and class discussions
Honing your own SEL competency through professional development so both you and your students can get the most out of your school’s SEL experience
This book also offers a set of Professional Development Facilitator’s Guides to help you and your colleagues master the core competencies of SEL and implement them effectively across your school or district. The appendix provides additional strategies for teaching personal space, Safe Touch, and making mindful accommodations for students who have experienced trauma.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tantillo Philibert, Carla

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Methoden des Lehrens und Lernens

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents
Meet the Author
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Social-Emotional Learning: An Approach, Not a Program
2 Connecting SEL and Mindfulness
3 Setting Up Your Classroom

Agreements
Talking Stick
Boom Board!
Pants on Fire!
Thought Partner Debrief
4 Thumb Check, POP Chart and Activities

5 SELF Activities
Students work individually
Energize
Brain Massage
Seated Yoga Sequence
Standing Yoga Sequence
Write and Rip
Gratitude Journal

Focus
Still Point
Ready to Learn Breath
5-Part Breath
Mooka Meditation
Owning My Story Journal
Cool Down Breath
Memory Minute
Expansion Project: Screen Detox

6 SOCIAL Activities
Students work in pairs or small groups

Energize
Cooperation Circle
Pass the Clap Circle
Movement Improv
Index Card Scavenger Hunt
Compliment Partners
Drawing Out Loud

Focus*
Check-In and Pass the Squeeze
Shoulder Share
Silent Practice
Proud of Myself Postcard
Cause and Effect Drawing
Goal Setting Postcard
Expansion Project: Community-Based Service Learning Project
* This section includes adaptations for Restorative Practices
7 Crafting SEL Stories
8 The Power of Professional Development
9 Professional Development Facilitator’s Guides
Appendix
Educator Pre/Post Survey
Questions from the Field
References and Further Reading

Über Autor(innen)

Carla Tantillo Philibert is the founder of Mindful Practices, one of Chicago’s leading school Social-Emotional Learning organizations, and oversees a team of 20 dedicated practitioners who empower teachers and students across the nation through mindfulness, yoga, and SEL to create an equitable educational environment.