SEL Standards

Stories/Prompts/Questions/Activities

1A.3a. Analyze factors that create stress or motivate successful performance.

What do you see in the picture?
Why do you think he feels this way?
What happens when a student feels this way?
What could we do to avoid this frustration?

1A.3b. Apply strategies to manage stress and to motivate oneself to constructively address challenges.

1A.3c. Demonstrate the capacity to maintain concentration on a task.

1B.3a. Analyze how personal strengths and areas in need of improvement influence choices and outcomes.

1B.3b. Analyze how making use of school and community supports and opportunities can help one surmount challenges and contribute to achievement in school and in life.

1C.3a. Set a short-term goal and develop a plan for achieving it.

1C.3b. Analyze why one achieved or did not achieve a goal.

2A.3a. Hypothesize others’ feelings and perspectives in a variety of situations and explain the reasons for one’s conjecture.

SEL Standards

Stories/Prompts/Questions/Activities

2A.3b. Analyze how one’s behavior may affect others.

2B.3a. Explain how individual, social, and cultural differences may increase vulnerability to bullying and identify ways to address it.

2B.3b. Analyze the effects of taking action to oppose bullying and/or bias-based behavior based on individual and group differences.

2C.3a. Analyze ways to establish positive relationships with others

2C.3b. Demonstrate cooperation and teamwork to promote group effectiveness.

2D.3a. Evaluate strategies for preventing and resolving interpersonal problems

2D.3b. Define unhealthy peer pressure and evaluate strategies for resisting it.

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Context of the unit

Stories or prompts:

Questions

Activities

Warm

Cool

This could also be helpful in…

Students would find this engaging because…

This is a good way to …

I have seen this work in…

Other

Have you considered____?

How will you handle____?

This might be even more engaging if ____?

What if___?

Other

Prompt:

What SEL Benchmark is most relevant to the story, video, text or picture?

What questions can you ask students to deepen their understanding of the story or picture?

What questions can you ask students to help them make connections to their own experiences?

What can students draw, create or write to deepen their understanding of themselves and others?

What discussion question would help students to understand different perspectives?

Reflection for next session:
After implementing the lesson, please reflect on what you and your students learned and be prepared to discuss how this might inform future instruction.