Mindful Matters: Developing Positive Connections With Self and Others

Build Confidence & Self Worth While Increasing Social & Emotional Skills! 12-15

Mindful Matters: Developing Positive Connections With Self and Others

Ms. Steph, M.Ed

Get $10 off my classes with coupon code STEPHQPRFM10 until Sep 19, 2022. In this 4 week course, students will work to identify strategies to help conquer social-emotional barriers that make it difficult for them to focus and learn.

Class Experience

Students will work to help identify areas with students struggle with social-emotional barriers that make it difficult for them to focus and learn. Each module will provide students will proven strategies to help foster grit, self-discovery, and more. This course will provide the dedicated time, and support students need to build resilience. Team building activities, opportunities for written reflection, and more will shape this course.
We will focus on:
Developing Problem solving...

Students will learn how to utilize social-emotional learning competencies and mindfulness initiatives to help develop self-awareness, self-control, and interpersonal skills that are vital for school, work, and life success.

Skilled educator and teacher leader for over 10 years. 5+ years of experience developing social emotional learning curriculum for middle school campuses.

Students may be tasked with completing written reflections individually. These tasks will take no more than ten minutes to complete.

A notebook
Writing Utensil
Color paper
Magazine clippings
scissors
glue
sticky notes
index cards
coloring supplies

In addition to the Outschool classroom, this class uses:Kahoot
Gimkit
Nearpod
Youtube
Canva

30 minutes per week in class, and an estimated 0 - 1 hours per week outside of class.

In this course, the instructor will screen share scenes from movies rated PG and PG 13 that include Some Mild Language/Bullying/Thematic Elements. The movies that we  will watch clips from include: Wonder, Frozen, Kung Fu Panda, Wreck it Ralph, Ralph Breaks the Internet, The Karate Kid, the Star Wars Saga, scenes from Star Wars: The Clone Wars.  YouTube will be used as the teacher screen shares to display video clips for the class to view whole group. These clips include guided breathing tutorials, episodes from series such as ClassDojo Mindfulness series and Be Kind public service announcements.

Use of the platform Canva will be utilized to create digital resources and students will need to register to create an account with the platform. Canva will be used for students to practice design thinking as they will work to create original designs to be apart of the Mindfulness Learning Portfolios. As we progress through the course, students will have opportunities to create presentations, flyers, greeting cards, and planners to help bring their learning to life.

Kahoot, Gimkit, and Nearpod will be used an interactive tools to help with the understanding of newly taught concepts, promote collaboration and interactivity. Kahoot, Gimkit, and Nearpod  will be used to answer multiple choice questions, complete discussion board questions, vote on polls, facilitate instruction of the lesson via interactive slideshows, and to complete short writing tasks. Students will need to create an account for Kahoot, Gimkit, and Nearpod.

We may refer to young adult literary texts throughout the lesson, but excerpts will be easily accessed via web searches.

Available times

Pacific

Table of available sections

Meet the teacher

Ms. Steph, M.Ed

I teach courses centered on wellness, social development, and literacy. I have been an educator for over 10 years in South Florida. I have an affinity for literacy and providing instructional support for teachers. I believe that every child has...