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Tips for Administrators, Teachers, and Support Staff Figure 4.35 contains tips and reflection questions relating to the contents of this chapter. As you consider these questions and next steps, reflect on your current practices in your own classroom and school. Teachers
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Virtual Teaching Tips
• Check in with your teachers and teams to ensure they understand the purpose behind the activities and practices they choose to implement. If they are unsure of the reason behind a practice, how can your leadership team support them in building a stronger understanding?
• Think about your current SEL practices within your classroom and determine what is working and effective. Think about one of the ten new SEL practices you may want to try. Consider which practice is the most manageable to integrate into your current routines.
• How can you support teachers and students in trying out the new practices? What can you offer to the daily routine that will make the practices go smoothly?
• Utilize your digital platform to encourage interactive participation throughout SEL activities. Encourage participation through chat boxes, interactive shared documents within a digital platform.
• In building your growthmindset culture, do your teachers and teams feel comfortable in trying out these new practices? How can you model the expectation of trying, failing, reflecting, and trying again so that teams feel safe exploring new practices?
• Think about how you can use a team approach to implement these practices to share the workload and make the practices more manageable.
• Think about how the relationships you build with students support the activities in these routines. How can you maintain your positive interactions while encouraging students in goal setting, participating in transitions, morning meeting expectations, and other new challenges?
• Digital activities are expanding daily for students! Explore ways to facilitate interactive game play. Keep in mind our students are often more comfortable with technology than we are! • Remember that your affect and connection with your students is even more important in this virtual world. As you read to students, share the morning message, or respond to their emotions, be sure you are using your facial expressions and voice to convey love and warmth.
Figure 4.35: Tips for administrators, teachers, and support staff from chapter 4.
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