Create classroom communities using social and emotional practices
Social and emotional skills development is quickly taking center stage alongside cognitive skills, technical skills, and content knowledge in both the classroom and the workforce. Use this path to learn the fundamentals of how technology supports social emotional learning in the classroom. Creating a strong community begins with mindfulness. It continues by supporting students by using social emotional learning techniques. Lastly, we tie it all together by empowering educators in the hybrid classroom environment.
Additional resources
The mindfulness in Minecraft module can enable social and emotional learning in the classroom: Explore social emotional learning: Mindfulness in Minecraft Education
Partner modules focused on SEL:
- Creative expression and social emotional learning with Buncee
- Enhance social and emotional learning (SEL) with School Day
Learning objectives
- Describe how social and emotional learning practices benefit the classroom environment through having impact on student behavior, higher test scores, and overall student well-being.
- Apply technology, for example Microsoft Teams and Reflect, to create a classroom community centered on collaboration, communication, and creativity.
- Create student-centered classroom environments based on social and emotional skill development to increase the emotional intelligence students will need for their future.
Prerequisites
None
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Modules in this learning path
This module introduces social and emotional learning and gives practical ways to use Microsoft tools such as Minecraft to augment and enhance learning.
Educators learn practical ways to organize their remote learning experience in order to foster strong connections between students and teachers and to keep students engaged. Educators learn to use Microsoft Teams, Stream, and OneNote Class Notebook to engage students and foster connections with the school community from afar.
Each student has emotions as complex and real as their supporting adults – but they don’t always have the words to express and address those emotions. To support the entire student, educators must build a safe place and appropriate scaffolding to help students learn to talk about and take action for social and emotional wellbeing in the classroom.
This module introduces educators to the hybrid learning model. Educators will learn about the five elements of hybrid learning, how to implement them, and how to use Microsoft Teams to create a dynamic learning environment for their students.