Description

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 practical methods 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.

Author: Philibert, Carla Tantillo

Topic: Education / Teaching
Media: Book
ISBN: 1138207845
Language: English
Pages: 188