The Mindful SEAD Method of Classroom Management
Using the Social, Emotional, and Academic Development framework for enhancing your classroom management techniques.
Course Description:
In this session, participants examine and personalize best practices and strategies for managing their dynamic classroom environments more effectively, through the lens of Social, Emotional, and Academic Development (SEAD). Student behavior and misbehavior, student self-management and self-discipline strategies, and techniques for classroom preparation, setup, and management are explored. Organizing time, schedule (daily, weekly, yearly), and materials, instructional pacing, and monitoring student interest and engagement through skillful questioning techniques will help teachers set up the group environment and to individualize instruction, with a priority focus on content mastery by their students.
As teachers learn to establish and communicate norms and expectations in their classroom and create a positive dynamic learning environment, they are developing the critical relationships skills needed by every teacher to powerfully impact their students. Through the integration of SEAD strategies into their instruction, teachers construct the organization of a classroom schedule/time management plan that includes various content areas, instructional strategies, grouping strategies, levels of energy use, etc. within large blocks of time or for an entire day school day.
Classroom Management is defined by Rothstein-Fisch, Trumbull (2008) as “the set of strategies that teachers and students use to ensure a productive harmonious learning environment to prevent disruptions in the learning process.”
Instructional Methods:
Face-to-face, active engagement, explicit instruction, group discussions, individual action-research and action planning. Facilitators will model with teachers/participants as students: classroom environment set-up, organizing and setting daily schedule, strategies for encouraging student engagement, and setting classroom norms, all through involving students with skillful questioning and gentle guidance.
Learning Outcomes:
Participants will:
Course Description:
In this session, participants examine and personalize best practices and strategies for managing their dynamic classroom environments more effectively, through the lens of Social, Emotional, and Academic Development (SEAD). Student behavior and misbehavior, student self-management and self-discipline strategies, and techniques for classroom preparation, setup, and management are explored. Organizing time, schedule (daily, weekly, yearly), and materials, instructional pacing, and monitoring student interest and engagement through skillful questioning techniques will help teachers set up the group environment and to individualize instruction, with a priority focus on content mastery by their students.
As teachers learn to establish and communicate norms and expectations in their classroom and create a positive dynamic learning environment, they are developing the critical relationships skills needed by every teacher to powerfully impact their students. Through the integration of SEAD strategies into their instruction, teachers construct the organization of a classroom schedule/time management plan that includes various content areas, instructional strategies, grouping strategies, levels of energy use, etc. within large blocks of time or for an entire day school day.
Classroom Management is defined by Rothstein-Fisch, Trumbull (2008) as “the set of strategies that teachers and students use to ensure a productive harmonious learning environment to prevent disruptions in the learning process.”
Instructional Methods:
Face-to-face, active engagement, explicit instruction, group discussions, individual action-research and action planning. Facilitators will model with teachers/participants as students: classroom environment set-up, organizing and setting daily schedule, strategies for encouraging student engagement, and setting classroom norms, all through involving students with skillful questioning and gentle guidance.
Learning Outcomes:
Participants will:
- demonstrate an understanding, through group discussions and self-reflections, of the five SEAD competencies as defined by CASEL, and explain why and how they impact student success and excellence
- demonstrate strategies to positively manage both individual and group behaviors
- gain the skillful means necessary to encourage students to self-assess and self-discipline
- encourage and support academic, behavioral, and social learning for all students
- be introduced to, and practice, 3-5 research-based mindfulness practices
- become comfortable enough with 2 of these mindfulness practices that they can teach them to their students on a daily or weekly basis
- develop an intentional classroom design that supports student engagement, based on SEAD competencies
- develop practices to set norms with students that foster respect, caring and community in the classroom
