How to Get Students Ready for Learning Video Lecture | Understanding Social and Emotional Learning (SEL): Better Life - Personal Skills

I was a student that probably could have
fallen through the cracks pretty easily
and I always vowed that if I was ever
into education I was going to create a
school in which all kids counted and
that we did everything in our power for
kids I just really believe that more
than ever before we need to teach kids
the skills of self-regulating their
emotions we know that they're going to
benefit from dealing with socio
emotional components they're going to
perform academically and they're going
to perform very strongly
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the social-emotional learning allows me
to be a teacher the students are
motivated to learn and to have that
leadership role within the classroom to
have that sense of community and a sense
of family
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I would like someone to issues how we're
going to transition from our desks to
the rug Emrys some more that walking can
you tell the class your expectations
quiet and don't talk one of the things
that's crucial with the responsive
classroom is allowing the kids to take
the leadership role they made a list of
how they would like to transition from
one activity to the next doing a thumb
walk where they walk slowly and
basically twiddle their thumbs the
transitions make me feel relaxed and
they help me calm down we are going to
start morning meeting with what we did
this weekend I know a lot of you had
some great stories to share so we will
start with dick I saw the ice boats just
Hawaii and really really cool when
people share things I always get a
little picture in my mind of what
they're doing this is our family time we
come together as a family and from here
we talk about any successes
accomplishments students have had and it
just sets us up for the day we are going
to do yoga this morning and we're going
to transition from the rug down to the
forum and when you're ready you may
start your stretch walk
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usually everyday try to do some type of
yoga whether it's just a couple minutes
a day or twice a week I do a full-blown
40 minute yoga class the yoga and the
transitions it's helping me also when
I'm at home I'm also coming down more to
this is something that I can't start my
day without oftentimes with kids they
don't realize that their body will tell
them how they're feeling before their
brain does with yoga we get that out of
them and it's a way for them to release
all their energy get them right for
learning how do you think that doing
yoga and in the morning especially
before writing is helping us I feel much
more relaxed and focus all the yoga that
we do helps us do more writing time in
this wrong amount of time we have
the advice that I would give to a
teacher about wanting to implement
social-emotional learning into their
classroom is that it's easy it's easy
and it's something that comes natural to
all teachers it's incorporating the
movement incorporating a voice for our
students incorporating that community
that sense of family once you have a
culture where staff are committed to
kids it spreads like wildfire all the
things that we do have been teacher
initiated I'm smart enough to know as
the leader in my school is I'm not the
expert my teachers are the experts a key
mindset I think is for leaders of
schools to feel empowered to give their
teachers a license to do these types of
things
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