Identify Connections Between SEL and Trauma-Informed Classroom Practices

Competency

Strategies for Developing a Safe and Nurturing Classroom Culture

(Add at least one strategy in each of the 5 competencies.)

Instructional Practices for Integrating SEL into Your Approach to Teaching and Learning Academic Content

(Identify at least 2 Instructional Practices in each of the 5 competencies.)

Self-Awareness

· Develop daily routines for practicing mindfulness and self-reflection.

· Implement the use of journal writing. Free writing, without a prompt, can help students identify and process emotions.

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Self-Management

· Allowing space and time for students to practice self-calming.

· Teaching students how to use tools for organization, such as the calendar on a phone or computer (or a paper calendar). Then providing time each day or class period to model and guide the use of organization tools.

· Giving students clear directions in more than one modality such as verbally and in writing or images.

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  Add two additional Instructional Practices:

Social Awareness

· Developing norms (public agreements/ rules) in collaboration with students.

· Building group reflection on the norms into the daily routine.

· Building in routines for sharing about yourself and for students to share about themselves with each other.

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Relationship Skills

· Using a neutral tone when conflict emerges, when redirecting students, or during discipline matters.

· Providing students with tools like sentence starters, lists of questions for prompting dialogue, and tips for discussions and working in groups.

· Greeting students at the classroom door, or being first online in the virtual classroom to greet students as they log in.

· Taking the time to learn about students’ interests and making reference to or asking about those interests from time-to-time.

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Responsible Decision Making

· Provide students with a safe space (physically and emotionally) to think through decisions.

· Offering tools to support decision-making processes.

· Modeling how to put go about taking responsibility for decisions.

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