After learning about the 5 pillars of SEL and knowing a few of my co workers are also in this training I am very excited to get this implemented ASAP in our school. Self awareness is something taught very early on but can either become a second thought or in extreme cases lead to anxiety. Social skills are not a given and as an educator…

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Session 2 focuses on that aspect of teaching students social awareness baseline being empathy and considering the perspective of others. I found the section on social skills very interesting as its not a skill a child has or doesn’t have its instead shows if they need refinement and it can continue to develop with age and can be learned…

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Emotions are very strong in children in all ages and its very important as educators we help those students work through and understand their emotions. The biggest takeaways i have so far is that 25% vs 75% of feelings towards school its very unfortunate to see how many students don’t like school. Self awareness is one of the greatest skills…

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Session 3 focuses on Tier 3 students. These are those typically 5% most at risk and identified for remediation. They often have individualized behavior plans. Students are screened through FBA to build a whole profile on the potential WHY behind behavior taking every possible reason into account. Students past history will be explored…

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Communication is very important when discussing possible intervention groups for students. Other teachers in the grade with the same student and even past teachers notes can be very helpful in assigning intervention groups for certain students. Some academic and behavior intervention needs can be found early on through screening as a…

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Behaviors are inevitable so learning all the tools to redirect students behavior and prevention is crucial. Some takeaways I really like were the individual student behavior tracking logs. While my school uses PBIS and has that form of documentation I think it would be very beneficial to keep my students accountable before they get to that…

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Self care is a crucial part of teaching to stay ready and refreshed for our students. That’s not always the reality and burnout can happen to anyone. I definitely struggle with self care as an educator even trying to prioritize I get a lunch break once a day. This session was very helpful in breaking down little ways to stay in touch with…

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Time Management is the key to teaching. It can be hard especially when your not so good at time management yourself but its crucial for the pacing of students yourself and admin. Pointers I learned were to involve the students with their own classrooms organizations like the individual student jobs. Encourage students to ask 3 before me can…

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Teacher organization is the craft we can all hope to master. Its always been incredible to see teachers transform bleak rooms into welcoming learning environments. My biggest takeaways from this unit is pre planning is essential even if it does change later on. Students love and thrive off consistent routine and are successful when they…

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Session 3 was very information heavy so I do have a lot of takeaways. It was very interesting to see the insight of data collection from a primary school perspective and see how they are collecting data on curriculum growth. Out of all of these the only one I recognized was fast bridge but the reading progress creation through Microsoft teams…

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Session 2 was very interesting to see all the options of resources teachers have. I really liked the options of making lesson plan organization easier either with Microsoft Keep or Planbook. I think having a way to a digital breakdown of lesson plans and year goals would be extremely helpful to incorporate.

I plan to implement Google Forms…

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Technology is something I don’t particularly have issues with and since I’m in middle school my current students also have fluidity in iPads.

I did learn a few more features and resources I would definitely like to set up for my students such as the. Listening speak screen feature, the speak selection for reading. I am curious about setting…

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Tier 3 is intensive intervention. These are the few really almost one on one guidance with a student who could potentially have a lot of data about their learning already. Tier 3 is where it is so imperative to have a learning relationship with your designated student. It increases students effort as well as ability to try harder things and…

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Tier 2 focuses around small group students generally around 4-8 students and it is to benefit and reach out to the 10-15% of students that are not quite to the level. I learned progress monitoring cycle of about 6-8 weeks and sessions split into a few days out of the week. The biggest key to management at this level is clear communication.…

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Instructions are one of the most crucial parts of teaching and classroom engagement so observing how other teachers have been able to implement instructions has been very helpful.

I am an ESL para so instructions are imperative for our children and we have very different ways of implementing instructions based on levels. Some of my takeaways I…

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