Unit 4: Putting it All Together & Strategies for Reflection
Introduction
In the final Unit of this course you will put all the pieces of the puzzle together. You will reflect on your own practices and learning from this course and apply this by creating an action plan/lesson plan for integrating SEL into one of the subject areas you teach.
Objectives:
- Explore ways to evaluate the effectiveness of SEL integration into academic areas
- Create an action plan on how to integrate SEL into either an ELA and STEM block and how to evaluate effectiveness of SEL integration
Lessons 1 &2: Putting it All Together and Strategies for Reflection
Mini Lesson
The last piece to discuss is how to evaluate the effectiveness of your strategies. An important part of this work is reflection and ensuring that the strategies you are putting into practice are working for you and your students. Below you will see a few different tools you can use to evaluate the effectiveness of your implementation of Integrating SEL into Academic Areas.
Observation/Anecdotal Notes: utilizing this strategy will allow the educator to note what they are seeing in their own classroom. Teachers may want to pay specific attention to student behavior, class engagement, and participation in lessons and activities.
Assessing Academic Performance: by assessing academic performance teachers can evaluate if successful implementation is improving learning outcomes for their students. Evaluating academic performance can include summative and/or formative assessments within lessons and units.
Self-Reflection: by taking time so self-reflect teachers are applying SEL competencies to their own practice. Taking time to reflect should include what is going well in the classroom and what challenges the educator is still facing.
Feedback: feedback from fellow educators that have successfully implemented SEL into academic areas is a great option for teachers. Feedback might include reflection with a colleague and going over best practices.
To do
Now is the time you will begin to put everything together!
Using your notebook and reflections think about what strategies spoke to you. Think about the needs of your students and where you can best see a place to begin implementing Integration of SEL into Academic Areas.
When you are ready, complete the lesson plan template provided. This will serve as your action plan and help you to begin your journey in Integrating SEL into Academic Areas!
You did it!
Congratulations you have finished this course!
I hope you were able to learn valuable information as well as strategies that you can take back into your classroom.
Thank you for participating in this course!
