Math 3-6

Social Awareness & Relationship Skills

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Learning is powerful when it is social—when we learn with and from each other. Social Awareness & Relationship Skills are essential for forming and maintaining positive relationships and are a key component to learner success, including learning math.

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Social Awareness is the understanding of social norms for behavior and the ability to understand the perspectives and feelings of others. Social Awareness allows children to empathize with people from diverse backgrounds and to recognize the Social Supports available from family members, at school, and in the community.
Relationship Skills are the specific interpersonal skills based on Social Awareness that allow students to communicate and get along with others, including cooperation and preventing or resolving interpersonal conflicts.

Students with strong Social Awareness & Relationship Skills show lower levels of conduct problems and emotional distress and better social adjustment and academic achievement.

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Identity, Behavior, and Relationships: Topic that includes research on the development of social and emotional skills on Digital Promise's Research Map

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Collaborative Problem Solving

As students solve problems in a group, they learn new strategies and practice communicating their mathematical thinking.

Discussing Emotions

Teaching students how to label, identify, and manage Emotion helps them learn Self-regulation skills.

Foster Growth Mindset

Teachers can help students understand that learning involves effort, mistakes, and reflection by teaching them about their malleable brain and modeling their own learning process.

Gallery Walk

As students walk through stations working in small groups, the social and physical nature of the learning supports deeper understanding.

Individual Spaces

Having space where students can go supports Self-regulation and individual deliberate practice.

Mobility & Flexibility

Multiple tables and chairs on wheels allow for setting up the classroom to support the desired learning outcomes of each activity.

Multiple Display Boards/Screens

Multiple display spaces help develop oral language skills as well as Social Awareness & Relationship Skills by allowing groups to share information easily as they work.

Multiple Writing Surfaces

Multiple writing surfaces promote collaboration by allowing groups to share information easily as they work.

Predictability: Environment & Structure

Maintaining consistent classroom routines and schedules ensures that students are able to trust and predict what will happen next.

Prioritize Family Engagement

Students are more likely to come to school when families feel like a valued part of the community.

Real-world Math

When teachers connect math to the students' world, students see how math is relevant and applicable to their daily lives.

Rich Resources: Children's Literature

Children's literature can be a welcoming way to help students learn math vocabulary and concepts.

Rich Resources: Diversity

Multicultural resources, such as posters with different types of people and word problems based in different settings, allow all students to see themselves in their math work.

Student-generated Problems

When students create their own number and word problems, they connect math concepts to their background knowledge and lived experiences.

Wait Time

Wait time, or think time, of three or more seconds after posing a question increases how many students volunteer and the length and accuracy of their responses.

Worked Examples

Analyzing and discussing solved problems helps students develop a deeper understanding of abstract mathematical processes.

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