This infographic highlights 15 activities from the book "Cultivating Communication in the Classroom." The tasks focus on a variety of communication skills which each flex an individual social emotional learning skill.
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15 Social Emotional Learning Tasks FOR Students For the Classroom
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Self-Awareness
Self-Management
Social Awareness
Relationship
Skills
Responsible
Decision-Making
1. EVALUATE an individual or group project
using a model like Glows and Grows or
Keep/Change/Delete.
2. REFLECT on a model like Flow or Uffe
Elbaek to get a feel for how you make
decisions and what your strengths and
weaknesses are.
3. DISCUSS the results of an independent or
group rubric with a peer.
4. ROLE PLAY a variety of scenarios that
might impact a group (e.g. one person absent
too often or one person not speaking up)
and how to handle them.
5. COMPOSE an email to your Future Self
using a tool like FutureMe.org with goals for
the semester or year.
6. DESIGN a resume for the job you want
(not the job you are currently qualified for).
7. EMAIL a peer that was absent in class with
the resources and a few kinds words.
8. DESIGN a product for a particular
audience (e.g. another class or grade level, a
community group, etc…).
9. SWAP a project (you are currently working
on) with another group and complete it.
10. ENACT a group quiz where each student
is responsible for every other student in their
group and their knowledge and
comprehension of the content.
11. SET group-sourced norms for a project.
12. CREATE a collaborative agenda and
timeline for a group project using tools like
Google Docs andTrello.
13. DESIGN a decision tree to determine
multiple avenues to solve a problem or
complete a process.
14. ANALYZE your own social media feed.
What would you delete? What is no longer
relevant?
15. DISCUSS the masks you wear online (e.g.
sister, peer, student, daughter) and how each
mask impacts what you share and/or don’t
share online.
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SOCIAL EMOTIONAL
LEARNING Tasks15
FOR STUDENTS
FOR the CLASSROOM