Unit 2: Respect
Respect
Back to Making a Classroom Community using SEL
Objectives
- Participant classrooms will have a deeper understanding of what respect and disrespect is.
- Participants classrooms will also be able to demonstrate respect with their classmates and teachers.
- Participants students will be able working together to complete a classroom task.
Lesson
Introduction
Respect is something you need to explicitly teach in your classroom. Not everyone necessarily knows what respect is and how to show it to others.
Participants have your students start out with a Draw & Write
- Have your students either draw or write what they think respect and disrespect is.
- Have them share it with the class or with small groups.
Lesson
Get your JENGA game out and build a tower. While building the tower talk about how when you put one block on you add another level of trust. Then take one away and explain how your tower got smaller when you lost some trust.
Take the JENGA game apart but don't put it away. Now explain to the class when you see any kind of positive example of respect you will add a block to the tower, if you see any negative example of respect you will take a block away from the tower. You can pick the amount of time to use this in your classroom, you can choose a prize if they have a certain amount of blocks at the end of the week if you'd like.
For grades K-1 show this song describing respect
For grades 3-6 show this video that explains some ways to be respectful in school.
After watching the song/video make a poster with your class saying someways you can be respectful. Try to fill up the poster and then hang it in your room somewhere where everyone can see it to be reminded to be respectful.
Assessment
Participants students will be testing the way they use respect throughout the school with their JENGA game. Depending on how long the participant wants to wait, it can be a day, week, two weeks, or a month.
Participants should complete the Unit 2: Respect Journal
Are you ready to move to Unit 3: Kindness?