Evidence of Learner Behaviors
Move their seating or change their learning method during self-directed work to avoid distractions
Redirect their peer group during group work if they are off task or disrupting other groups
Questions to Ask Learners
How do you manage your own focus and behavior during your individual work?
How about during group work?
Evidence of Learner Behaviors
Offer support to a classmate when they seem upset or in need of help
Demonstrate awareness of an issue that the learning facilitator needs to address related to the Code of Cooperation
Questions to Ask Learners
If you saw a classmate upset or in need of help, what would you do?
Why does this matter?
If you saw something in your learning environment that was affecting how you and your classmates felt, what would you do?
Evidence of Learner Behaviors
Describe how they are stuck on a learning topic or task and what they plan to do to improve at it
Offer their thinking on their own growth via protocols and processes (i.e. PLP) and how they have exceeded their own expectations
Questions to Ask Learners
When you get stuck or find learning difficult, how do you feel about it?
In that situation, what do you do?
How have you succeeded in an area of learning that surprised you?
Why do you think that is?
Evidence of Learner Behaviors
Demonstrative inclusive language with peers during academic and social situations
Describe how they feel connected to their learning facilitator
Questions to Ask Learners
How do you include your classmates when you are working during class or out at recess (or other social setting)?
Why is that important?
What are some ways you are connected to your learning facilitator?
Social emotional habits support many key learning processes, including metacognitive thinking, self-directed learning, collaboration, and more. Such habits also support the regulation of risky behavior and trauma.
Learners’ social emotional habits are developed through explicit instruction and modeling, opportunities to practice and receive feedback, and a socially and emotionally positive, respectful, and supportive culture.
CSTPs: 2.1, 2.5, 6.6, 6.7
Engage learners to give authentic feedback for their learning environment on the performance of the Code of Cooperation on areas like growth mindset, class behavior, and peer support.
Model habits in planned and unplanned moments during instruction (P/F)
Provide explicit direct instruction on key habits (P/F)
Emphasize the importance of particular habits at key points (P/F)
Acknowledge learner demonstrations of habits as positive reinforcement (F)
Lindsay’s Lifelong Learning Standards are a natural fit for developing Social Emotional Habits.
The Personal Sphere of Lifelong Learning
Teaching Channel: Building Emotional Literacy
TLA: Peace Circles