By Laura Driscoll | Individual Counseling , Social Emotional Skills
You have students on your caseload and you want to make sure they are making progress and you are being effective. Social and emotional skills aren’t always the easiest skills to measure though. I found at least one solution to my problem though. I explicitly set goals with students. This allowed me to have data […]
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By Laura Driscoll | Group Counseling , Individual Counseling , Social Emotional Skills
Understanding who you can count on is a key social and emotional skill we can teach early and reinforce through high school. Students benefit from knowing who is in their support system, when to access them, and how to access them. It is so powerful for a child to know that when they are upset […]
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By Laura Driscoll | SEL Teaching Practices , Social Emotional Skills , Teacher Consultation
Student-centered discipline is the classroom management strategies that a teacher uses that are developmentally appropriate for their students and motivate their students to want to behave in the classroom. It is one of the 10 key teaching practices identified by The Center on Great Teachers and Leaders (GTL) that support social and emotional learning as […]
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By Laura Driscoll | Social Emotional Skills , Teacher Consultation
Resolving conflicts is a necessary skill for students to learn and we can begin expecting independence in elementary. Sometimes, when you feel like you are lining up 20 kittens rather than 20 students, there isn’t a lot of time to resolve every student conflict. When we do get involved past the demand for an apology, we […]
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