Self-Awareness
Self-Awareness is the ability to understand your motivations, attitudes, beliefs, and emotions. By building this competency, you are better able to navigate situations and interactions with others in your daily life. You understand your strengths, your challenges, and how your inner life can impact achievement in school, your relationships, and meeting personal goals for college, career, and life.
- Any adult who works with children and youth can choose to use the Class Lesson components in their setting and/or the Conversation Starters.
- The classroom PDF lesson, available in the bottom portion of each lesson page under the heading School to Home Resources, has also been “coded” to the page so a parent or caregiver can see at a glance what the traditional SEL lesson was about if taught in the classroom at an earlier time.
- Specially designed lesson extensions that complement the class lesson are also attached as a PDF and are labeled Conversation Starters; they too have been conveniently coded to the page in the beginning section entitled Family Resources and are also attached as a PDF in that section. The Conversation Starters provide a quick overview and suggested questions that parents, caregivers or other adults can use to prompt meaningful conversation with children and youth on the topic/competency addressed.
- Again, our design provides lots of flexibility in use, from lengthier “lesson plans” to quick reflection questions to be used at the dinner table, in the car, youth group, or other setting when reinforcement of concepts are needed, but time is a factor.
Print Only Lessons
What is Self-Awareness ?
Learning Libraries » Preschool (PreK-2) » Self-Awareness Print Self-Awareness Family Resources on What is Self-Awareness?Project and Purpose In class students learned the definition of self-awareness. Students participated in an activity called “My Top Five!” where they brainstormed 5 things about themselves and then they drew a self-portrait to demonstrate what they discovered. Share this Link [...]
Growth Mindset
Learning Libraries » Preschool (PreK-2) » Self-Awareness Print Self-Awareness Family Resources on Growth MindsetProject and Purpose By explicitly teaching social-emotional learning skills while honoring diverse identities, creating a sense of belonging, and promoting student agency toward personal growth and social impact, the teacher better creates a classroom environment that fosters well-being for self and others. [...]
Having Self-Confidence
Learning Libraries » Preschool (PreK-2) » Self-Awareness Print Self-Awareness Family Resources on Having Self-ConfidenceProject and Purpose By explicitly teaching social-emotional learning skills while honoring diverse identities, creating a sense of belonging, and promoting student agency toward personal growth and social impact, the teacher better creates a classroom environment that fosters well-being for self and others. [...]
Identity Who am I?
Learning Libraries » Preschool (PreK-2) » Self-Awareness Print Self-Awareness Family Resources on Identity Who am I?Project and Purpose By explicitly teaching social-emotional learning skills while honoring diverse identities, creating a sense of belonging, and promoting student agency toward personal growth and social impact, the teacher better creates a classroom environment that fosters well-being for self [...]
