Positive Affirmation Station
This tool includes a mirror, and positive affirmations all around the mirror — students are able to look at themselves and think positive thoughts/cool down if needed/etc.
Student Directed
We Wish You Well
When students are absent, another student is the “Well Wisher”. The student will color a picture and write a note to the student absent, reminding them we missed them at school.
Safe Space
Safe spaces in a classroom consist of allowing students to go and relieve stress, calm down and recharge their emotions before going back to learn. A safe space supports students social-emotional learning by teaching these students to focus on their good emotions and manage their bad emotions.
Compliment Cards
This tool is incredibly helpful for many reasons. This tool gives the opportunity for students to lift other students up. Students may not hear a lot of nice things about them from their friends or family, so hearing a compliment can lift their spirits. This tool creates a strong and positive classroom community by uniting students in thinking positively about others.
Boomer Sooner
This tool is a call and response. The teacher calls out “Boomer” and the Students yell back “Sooner” while stopping side conversation and facing the teacher.
Kindness Train
The kindness chain is an activity where all students are writing down kind, positive, and encouraging messages for their peers on a piece of paper. At the end of the activity all the students have a list of these notes to keep! This helps build classroom community as well as self-confidence for students.
Silent Light
Similar to Silent Hand or Quiet Coyote already listed on this website, Silent Light is another attention-getter technique to quickly transition, or bring the noise level down when the classroom becomes too loud. Turn the silent light on when attention is needed and listen as your students begin to settle down once they notice the light is on.
Quiet Critters
Quiet Critters can be used in your classroom to signal to students when they are working quietly and following expectations. Quiet Critters are a fun way to encourage students to work quietly and independently. They are a great way to recognize students for their hard work.
Write the Room
This tool helps student get up and move around while also reviewing what they have learned. The students will walk around the room looking for words then use those words to create a sentence.
