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Caroline: I love the idea of a cool down technique. Making sure that students aren't too stressed as they transition to the next class can prevent building up stress throughout the day and prevent a breakdown by any of the students. This is an especially great idea with younger children because they might not know yet how to properly handle stress.
Greta: The idea of an extra, more personal question is a great way to connect with your students. I know that my Spanish teacher last year did this on every quiz and exam and would respond to them while she was grading them. It was a great way to connect with the teacher.

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I think a great way to incorporate social emotional learning into especially an elementary level class (which can utilize flex time more than middle school or high school) is mood surveys. On mondays students take a google form that reflects on how they feel about their personal life. On fridays during class meeting, the teacher can touch on any issues the students seem to be having and how she could help them solve this.

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Caitlin: I love your idea of connecting the students' work to their own lives because it not only will strengthen their relationships with others, but it will also help them learn better by actually feeling connected to their work. Maybe you could try giving the students more guidance, though, so they are not always connecting it to people or things they already feel very close to.
Emma: I love your idea of keeping journals of their feelings- what a great way to work on writing skills and SEL skills at the same time! My only suggestion would be wrapping this up at the end of the journal time. At the beginning of the lesson, you can prompt them into writing about a time someone made them sad. Then, after they all write about this, you can go over it as a class and use this to teach them as to how to deal with their sadness.

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Sam: I really liked your idea about doing some sort of bonding activity every week with your students. It will strengthen the comrotery  (idk how to spell that word) of your students and help them feel more comfortable in the classroom, with you, and with each other.

Emma: I thought that your idea of respectfully disagreeing was awesome. We have a phrase in the classroom I'm in right now where if the students do not agree with another's answer, they will say "I respectfully disagree". This phrase seems very helpful when it comes to the self confidence of students sharing out to the classroom. If a students shares and is wrong, they do not feel as embarrassed when a respectful phrase is used.

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Caroline: I really like your idea about the cooling down techniques and teaching your students to be good friends. These can be applied both inside and outside the learning enviornment. This will also help students feel safe and emotionally connected to one another. Maybe you could try using these techniques in other situations not listed like in between lesson plans. This could be a good ice breaker/ energizer as well as a great SEL tactic

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Emma: I like your idea involving the students writing journals about their feelings. This will really help them connect their emotions to their school work. Maybe having students share some of their feelings will help increase their level of comfortability in the classroom. The students could relate to one another and form a connection inside and outside the classroom

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Emma: I loved your idea of having your students keep journals. I think journals are a great way for students to be able to write down what they are feeling because if they can say how they are feeling in words they can express it to others as well. One idea I had was to some days give students an "open" journal time where they can write about anything and other days you could give prompts that are SEL focused. For example you could make a prompt that says, "If one of your friends family members moved away, how do you think they would feel? And how would you make them feel better?"

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Caitlin: I like how you took an activity that the students have prior knowledge of and expanding it using with SEL in mind. I think you could give the students a prompt, like emotions and giving them the freedom to take that idea and write a poem about it and I think it will be interesting to see which directions the students take it. You could also open up conversation by having students share their poems and have the class talk about it.

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For me it is difficult to incorporate SEL into my lessons because I teach 50 minutes of accelerated math. The one way I thought that I could maybe incorporate SEL is by using examples of word problem that connect to the student's lives and their interactions with others. For example, having a word problem about a student who helps their classmate who is sad because they dropped their books and using an equation to see how fast they could help them pick up the books.

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Emma: I think your idea on incorporating disagreeing skills in the classroom is very good idea and a very valuable life skill that they will take with them.
One thing that I would go in more depth with is how often you would have your students do their journals. would it be like an everyday thing? I really like that idea.

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Caroline: I really like your idea about teaching kids techniques to calm themselves down. That is very beneficial in their future and could really help them in the work world.
One thing that I would expand on to make it better is try to add social emotional learning not just through teaching moments but like think about starting the day or ending the day with something to wrap it up.

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I plan to inncorporate SEL into my lesson plan by having each of the students connect their work to their life. The students write a lot of poems in class, and relating these poems back to themselves can help them connect more to their friends and teachers. They have written one or two poems about certain prompts the teacher gives them; however, making the poems about either their favorite activity, color, etc will help them strengthen their school and after school relationship.

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I plan on adding a step to my lesson plan where the students give feedback on not only the lesson but also on how they are doing outside of the school (for example: what is something fun you plan on doing this weekend, or how are your feelings about this new topic?). By doing this, I will read each response and ask about the students responses the next time I see them so that they know I am invested in them not only as a student but as a person.

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I plan to incorporate social emotional learning by having certain days where we work on getting more comfortable in the class. for example the first day of school I will have activities that have to do with team building like fun station games. Get to know you activities and show how working and building as class is only going to make us stronger. The first 5 minutes of every class I will always start with an activity that makes the students more and more comfortable everyday. I also plan on putting one day a week of some activity that will be an entire class lesson.

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I plan to incorporate SEL learning into my classroom by having my students keep journals and write what they are feeling so that they can then focus on self management skills. I would also like to practice respectfully disagreeing with my students since they will learn how to listen and respond to what their classmates are saying regardless of what their own opinion is.

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I plan on incorporating social emotional learning in my classroom by choosing different moments to make a teaching point. For example, if I hear two students talking and one asks a good follow-up question, I will stop the class and give that student positive reinforcement for showing interest in their conversation. Furthermore, before tests or stressful situations, I can teach the kids different cooling down techniques, such as taking deep breaths, and also ways to be a good friend, such as wishing their friend luck on their test.

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Caroline:
I really like how you are going to teach your students coping skills in stressful situations since they can use those for many years.
I would change how you give positive reinforcement to the students.  I would go up to the student and individually tell them good job, but maybe not stop the whole entire lesson to say this.

Caitlin:
I really like how you are connecting SEL lessons to prior units in the class since that can be really helpful to the students.
One thing I would go more in depth with is what the students will do after they write the poems. Will they present to the class or you