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This tool is used to support students and their personal achievements. Students write good news, it can be anything related to school or their lives outside of school, it is their choice what to share. This tool is helpful for students to feel a state of belonging and helps foster relationships within the classroom from feeling cared about.
The soft start morning choice board is a google slide that is put up on the whiteboard each morning that includes the student’s jobs for the morning as well as soft start choices. Soft start is when students come in and have a slow beginning to their day where they are able to talk to the teacher, color, use play-doh, interact with their peers, and play with toys before starting the day academically. The soft-start is helpful because it starts students’ morning off on the right foot and allows the theater to have personal interactions with students that aren’t necessarily school-related to continue to build that relationship.
The emotion identification chart is a chart that can either be hung in the classroom for students to see and refer back to or it can be individualized and put on the student’s desk. It is helpful because it helps students learn how to identify and then in turn regulate their emotions and have appropriate responses to situations. Once a student is able to identify the emotion that they are feeling they can then use tools and strategies to help regulate that emotion in an appropriate way within the classroom and outside the classroom as well.
ClassDojo is a communication tool put into place by teachers/schools in order to keep in contact with parents and students. Parents are able to interact with their students, as well as being kept up to date on anything going on in the classroom/school/district.
When a situation or behavior problem has occurred, the student/s involved will be relocated to a classroom that has previously agreed to take on a student for a break. The student will be handed a pass and will go to the guest classroom for an allotted amount of time to cool off and remove themselves from where the issue had occurred.
At the beginning of the year, with your class you will discuss the issue of noise level in your classroom. During this conversation, you will explain to students that there needs to be noise levels set in place in order to control the volume in your class. The students can help you come up with the level names, but these levels will be referred to before lessons, work time and group work.
Timers come in many different styles and shapes, so they can be a fun and unique tool to use in the classroom. They are helpful for supporting kids in taking responsibility for their time management as they can set a timer for how much time they get before moving on.
Flexible seating is the practice of allowing and providing many seating options for students. This means having different types of seats like yoga balls, chairs, couches, stools, etc. This also means given students the freedom to choose where they sit.
Warm and Fuzzies are notes from peers complimenting a student on something or telling them something good that they can take home with them. The notes must focus on positives and are helpful because even if students had a rough day they are able to take something positive home with them to end their day on a good note.
Students write how they are feeling that morning on the back of a sticky note (i.e. the side with the sticky on it), and stick it on the white board, so the face of the sticky note is blank and their feelings are kept anonymous on the back. This tool gives the teacher the ability to know how their students are feeling that morning and can kind of gauge how the day will go.
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