SEL and RP
Classroom activities that encourage students' social and emotional learning and promote restorative practices
Students observe that even friends may disagree in their opinions. The lesson includes an "opinion continuum" exercise that encourages students to respectfully express and listen to different opinions.
Regularly instituting these two approaches in your classroom will build your students' problem-solving skills and create a more congenial classroom atmosphere.
Through an exercise and roleplays, students consider the importance of understanding another person's point of view in solving a conflict.
A series of classroom activities culminate in students interviewing a peacemaker in their school or community.
Well-structured small-group discussion can help students discuss issues of the day that concern them.
In this activity for grades 3-6, students practice the skills of good listening.
Encourages students to consider the effect of "put-downs" and to think about how to express "put-ups."
In these two fun classroom activities, students practice sending and receiving messages and consider what communication is.
After two puppets discuss how a bully at their school, youngsters analyze what they've seen and consider how to respond to the bully.
Students discuss their own experiences of helping others, then view and discuss a brief video about Japanese children who are working together to help their community in the wake of the earthquake and tsunami.