This project is part of the Black History Month celebration because it supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of the students are Black.
My Students
Emotional intelligence begins to develop in the earliest years. All the small exchanges children have with their parents, teachers, and with each other carry emotional messages. - Daniel Goleman
Our urban, Title 1 school is located in Baltimore, where supplies are limited or unavailable, however that doesn't stop learning!
My classroom is filled students who are lively, demanding, courageous, inquisitive yet sometimes unpredictable and challenging, with varied learning styles and social and emotional needs. They come each day excited eager to put forth their best effort with some encouragement and support.
My Project
The emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain - Daniel Goleman.
As I continue building a safe learning environment now I've learned that emotions play a HUGE part in a students' ability to learn. I want to help students express themselves emotionally by identifying how they feel, the cause that feeling and teaching them strategies to manage and regulate them.
Two resource books - Zones of Regulation and Social Thinking for Tweens and Teens. Zones of Regulation will provide the research behind it and teach me how to implement this strategy and share with our parent community and fellow colleagues. Social Thinking for Tween and Teens will help our mentors connect with our students participating in our Girls Social Group.
Finally, one yellow hokki stool and one red bean bag is needed to identify the color-coded zones. (I already have the other colors). These two additional seating choices will allow me to create two Zones of Regulation.
As we interact with the world and others, we respond emotionally leaving us with a good or bad experiences.
Those experiences shape how we view ourselves, others and our place in the world. In this day and age, we live in a volatile world in which our students are apart, so it's imperative that I help them to deal with their emotions and discover ways to cope or manage it for optimal learning and a lifelong skill.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it - Charles Sw
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