Lesson Plan for Integrated Social and Emotional Learning Program

After comparing the advantages and disadvantages of all the curriculums that were presented during the poster presentation, I have decided to purchase the Second Step Early Learning curriculum developed by the organization Committee for Children. This curriculum teaches skills that improve students’ ability to understand their own and other’s emotions, show empathy, be able to self-regulate, solve problems, and decrease the frequency of their disruptive behavior, including both verbal and physical aggression. (Second Step Program Review of Research) There are two main reasons and a couple small advantages that make me decided to choose this curriculum:

Personal, social and emotional developments (PSED) are acknowledged as one of the starting point of accomplishment in life. PSED is about the whole child, how they are developing now, what they can do to reach their goals but also contribute to their community and how children perceive their identity and ability, understand their relation to the others in the society and apprehend their own and others’ feelings. PSED are a part of children’s development where they will be able to communicate effectively and be able to develop positive behavior among themselves and to others. According to the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS), PSED is consists of three aspects which are self-confidence and self-awareness, managing feelings and behavior

I used the internet to research all areas of planning and enabling learning in unit 2, as I felt it offered depth and detail, as well as convenience. However, I also referred to Planning and Enabling Learning in LLLS by Ann Gravells & Susan Simpson, as well as Geoff Petty Teaching Today - A Practical Guide.

“Social and emotional learning skills enhances students’ capacity to integrate skills, attitudes, and behaviors to deal effectively and ethically with daily tasks and challenges” (CASEL). Mastering this skill will not only boost your attitude but your overall living and learning status. SEL also helps make your path as easy and smooth as possible, by making responsible decisions , maintaining positive relationship skills, showing social awareness, and having the ability to show god self-awareness, and self-management, has helped many people benefit in life. Self-awareness: the ability to understand your own emotions and how you influence others, Self-management: the ability to control owns impulses and stress, Social awareness: the

The learning outcomes are important. There has to be a reason on why something is being taught, and how it will be useful to the students future. Throughout the paper, I’m going to give you an example of a lesson plan I

Preparing students for life success, requires a balanced education that includes social and emotional education. It is important that families, schools and communities come together to achieve this. This article is researching the positive effects, of social and emotional learning of students in kindergarten to eighth grade. This article summarizes three reviews of research on the impact of social and emotional learning (SEL) programs on elementary school and middle age school students. These programs promote social and emotional skills (Weissberg, Taylor, Schellinger, Payton, Pachan, Dymcicki and Durlak, 2008). The SEL programs showed many benefits in both school and after-school settings for students with and without behavioral and

In order to create the lesson plan, the objectives had to be planned first. As per the requirements for the course, I based my learning objectives off of Bloom’s taxonomy with my learning objectives falling under the categories of remembering, understanding,

A child's emotions can effect the child's efforts to maintain their goals. A child who reaches their goal or overcomes an obstacle experiences happiness (Santrock, 1996). A teacher should consider a child's emotions as they are evaluating them. Teachers should provide a comfortable environment for the students so they are willing to try and achieve their goals with no criticism. "Life is the curriculum; adaptation is the major objective; development becomes the teaching process; and the child is the learner at the center of the process" (Allen & Marotz, 1998). Most young children find the early school years to be enjoyable (Allen & Marotz, 1998). It is up to teachers to make sure the enjoyment a child receives from school continues throughout their school experience. Teachers need to make learning fun by teaching topics that the children are interested in with a hands on approach. Children need to be able to communicate and get along well with others to do well in school although they may need some guidance from the teacher to do this.

In part 2, I will provide a critical reflection on my own teaching practice during recent placement by making detailed connections to an appended lesson plan.

I appreciate when you say, “The teacher can aid the children in meeting and playing with each other by setting up projects and activities in small groups of children.” However, I think my approach would be a little different in the fact that I would want to foster their abilities to make decisions and not so much if forcing them into friendships they do not want. I believe that using a Social Emotional Learning model in my classroom will teach children to understand their emotions and form friendships/relationships that are best for their development. If you found a certain child does not get along with another would you want them to work together more often to create a friendship or stay apart to develop other healthy friendships?

A part of the research document developed by the Catholic Education Office of Melbourne was an audit tool that can assist schools in the implementation and maintenance of Social Emotional Learning. There are seven areas in which schools need to reflect on their progress and establishment which are; Creating a School/Community Vision for a Whole School Approach to SEL, Assessing Current Needs, Auditing Current Approaches and Resources, Choosing Evidence based Approaches and Resources, Planning and Integrating a Whole School Approach to SEL, Ongoing Professional Learning for the School Community and Sustaining the Social Emotional Learning Initiative (CEOM. 2007).

Analysis of the three identified stages stated on the lesson planner shall take place within this assignment. Links will be shown between the teaching methods that were incorporated in this lesson planner which met particular learning characteristics, traits and needs of the group or an individual(s) and relevant educational and theoretical principles. The lesson planner has been placed in the appendices, as a referral resource, for this assignment.

From the Rusken College speech in 1976, a whole new approach to education was to be invented and from this came the introduction of the craft based qualifications, his idea of the government putting money into education and seeing very little return, made him concentrate on making people fit for work, in turn helping the economy and paying the government back on their investment. This is the main model used in my specialised curriculum. One of the attractions of this approach to curriculum theory is that it involves detailed attention to what people need to know in order for it to work. Lesson plans are produced with the main theme of ‘by the end of the session the learner will

I conducted my observation on November 3, 2017. I observed a fourth-grade language arts class taught by Robin Smith. Mrs. Smith exudes a love of reading and knowledge from the very moment you meet her. Mrs. Smith’s classroom is a warm, accessible, print rich environment complete with anchor charts, a word wall, and alphabet chart. Mrs. Smith and her classroom environment inspire each one of her students to find a passion for reading and learning. Mrs. Smith demonstrates an understanding of the social-emotional environment, and its importance to the success of a child’s learning experience. Although the social-emotional environment is much harder to grasp and see it is just as important as the physical environment. Mrs. Smith’s approach for classroom management demonstrates how a positive social-emotional environment can lead to an effectively well managed classroom.

The content lesson plan was done for Languages, Mathematics and Social Studies whereby meaningful and appealing opportunities for the students to practice, master and learn were arrived at through competent teaching strategies which enabled the students to develop and learn within their academic, linguistic and social contexts to build instructional opportunities that optimized their learning. Further, performance indicators were used to inspire prior knowledge as well as link fresh ideas to the students’ familiar experiences and ideas.