Turn and Talk
This tool is an effective way to encourage student collaboration and communication. You have students partner up and share their ideas during a lesson.
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Admiration Station
This tool is to creating a safe classroom community where students fill one another’s bucket. It creates a positive learning environment where students recognize the importance of compliments. Giving compliments makes students motivation for kindness intrinsic and on the receiving end, a student gets a confidence boost.
Apology Bookmarks
This is a bookmark that teaches students how to apologize without having to overcomplicate the apology or not say enough. It also helps students resolve conflict on their own without getting the teacher involved.
Two Compliments About Your Work
This tool is a helpful, supportive tool to allow students to engage in positive collaboration, and give compliments to other students. This activity helps students engage in thinking critically about what they’re viewing and what they like about someone else’s work. During this time, one student will be elected to use the projector to present their work. That student will then call on to students to give compliments about the presenting student’s work.
Tell Me One Good Thing!
This is a great way to check in with your students and take into consideration to their lives outside of school.
Rollercoaster Brain Break
When students need a brain break, put on a rollercoaster simulation video. Have your students act in their seats like they are on a rollercoaster ride. This is a fun activity that gives your students an engaging but timely brain break that gives them a quick reset so they will be ready to learn.
Busy Box
This tool is used to support students during learning. This old lunch box has a variety of different fidgets and brain flakes to help students focus, calm down, or reset. It is all inside a box that students can grab when needed and easily clean up when they are finished.
Private Table
This tool is used when a student needs to be able to still be in class but does better when they can only see the teacher. It is helpful because it allows the student to feel like they are at their own table group but if need be, they can see will work with a group.
Student tubs
This tool is used to give students all of the necessary materials that are needed for them to be successful and participate in the classroom. It is helpful because it supports the students and their learning by making it so they do not have to look to find the needed materials.
Barnabee Tuesday
This tool is used to with a Bee stuffed animal named Barnabee. Every Tuesday you sit with your class in a circle and you as the teacher start with Barnabee and remind the students that they have the option to pass then you tell them how you are feeling today.
