Digital Promise Signature Workspace
Rachael's SEL Strategies for a Remote Classroom
Check out this workspace and view a padlet to learn more about how LVP Practitioner Advisory Board member, Rachael Wilcox, implements strategies to support social and emotional learning with her students while teaching remotely.
My factors
Emotions are complex psychological states stemming from a person's experiences.
Self-regulation skills help students concentrate on learning, including reading and writing.
The trauma that comes from experiencing adversity in childhood releases stress hormones that can lead to changes in the body and brain.
Safety is being and feeling physically and psychologically secure at home, at school, and within our neighborhood and larger community.
Working Memory allows a person to temporarily hold and manipulate information to apply in other processes.
Strategies to support sel in class and at home
Literacy PK-3
Setting overall goals, as well as smaller goals as steps to reaching them, encourages consistent, achievable progress and helps students feel confident in their skills and abilities.
Literacy PK-3
Books with SEL topics, such as developing friendships and identifying emotions, help teach these skills.
Literacy PK-3
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.
Literacy PK-3
When students reframe negative thoughts and tell themselves kind self-statements, they practice positive self-talk.
Literacy PK-3
Imagining allows students to step back from a problem or task and think about it from multiple angles.
Literacy PK-3
Free choice supports learner interests and allows more complex social interactions to develop.
Literacy PK-3
Teaching students how to label, identify, and manage emotions helps them learn self-regulation skills.
Literacy PK-3
Building positive and trusting relationships with learners allows them to feel safe; a sense of belonging; and that their academic, cognitive, and social and emotional needs are supported.
Literacy PK-3
Actively and authentically encouraging all students to seek support, ask questions, and advocate for what they believe in creates a safe space for risk-taking and skill development and supports a Sense of Belonging.
strategies to support engagement at home
Literacy PK-3
Content that is provided in clear, short chunks can support students' Working Memory.
Literacy PK-3
Instruction in multiple formats allows students to activate different cognitive skills to understand and remember the steps they are to take in their reading work.
Literacy PK-3
Family engagement happens when educators and schools collaborate with families to collectively support their child's learning in meaningful ways, both at school and at home.
Literacy PK-3
Providing students a voice in their learning is critical for making learning meaningful.
Literacy PK-3
A parent evening meeting about how to support literacy at home with one follow-up meeting with each family has shown strong results for students' reading development.
Literacy PK-3
Spaces that are structured, organized, and clean provide increased room for collaboration and active learning.
