The philosophy of growth mindset is to help students develop a belief that through hard work, their brains and talents can be developed and they are not fixed. We use different language to create intrinsic motivation.
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Implementing a daily practice of gratitude through journaling to acknowledge positives in one’s own life.
Positive Daily Focus Journal
A quick Google search will yield thousands of great ideas!
Rationale:
Collecting Kids-Neufeld Based
Building Relationships
Taking Care of Kids
Provide snacks/food when students are hungry, need regulation, or need extra care.
School provides extra snacks and/or lunches when necessary.
May want to set up a “kitchen cupboard” for students (community may donate to this cupboard).
Supporting Documents – Neufeld, Alberta Health – healthy eating
In supporting students with social development use the SE framework indicators in daily classroom activities.
Eg. In LA- using articles, videos etc that target social emotional indicators that then allow for discussion and other LA outcomes.
-Accessing the framework and highlighting key areas that may be pertinent to a classroom activity.
Eg. Students are having troubles with social awareness. Look to the framework for indicators and then find ways to embed in class activities using your same structure (ie: during LA or during Social).
Refer to the resource section in the Social Emotional Framework
The purpose of this is to ensure that each student has touched based with one adult in the school. To make sure that each student has been made to feel welcome and important at the school. To allow at least one staff member to see the emotional state of each child in the morning.
This can happen in a variety of ways, and throughout the day. Ideally the check-ins would happen in the morning, however it can also occur throughout the day. the can be implemented in a classroom or throughout an entire school.
Below are a few examples of how this could be implemented in schools. This could occur in a variety of ways. Only a few examples are listed. Ideas should be created and adapted, in order to suit the specific school or classroom.
All school staff have a collective responsibility for all students and value the importance of building relationships. Schools create a culture of acceptance and caring by providing various school wide activities, creating opportunities for multi-age groupings and generating core values and building common language.
A positive school culture can be created in many ways. Some ideas are: