1st Edition
Sharing the Blue Crayon How to Integrate Social, Emotional, and Literacy Learning
By Mary Anne Buckley
Copyright 2015
198 Pages
by
Routledge
198 Pages
by
Routledge
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Social and emotional learning is at the heart of good teaching, but as standards and testing requirements consume classroom time and divert teachers' focus, these critical skills often get sidelined. In Sharing the Blue Crayon , Mary Anne Buckley shows teachers how to incorporate social and emotional learning into a busy day and then extend these skills to literacy lessons for young children.... Read more
Introduction; Chapter 1: The Language of Learning; Chapter 2: Teaching Students Self-Regulation Skills; Chapter 3: The Friendship Workshop Format; Chapter 4: Extending Friendship Workshop to Literacy Lessons; Chapter 5: Getting Along: Being Part of a Group; Chapter 6: Empathy; Chapter 7: Kindness; Chapter 8: Peacefulness; Chapter 9: Responsibility; Chapter 10: Self-Control; Chapter 11: Perseverance; Chapter 12: Giving and Getting Feedback; Chapter 13: Transformation
Biography
Mary Anne Buckley graduated from Vermont College and taught for eleven years at Bailey’s Elementary School in Fairfax County, Virginia, where, she says, “The innovative and passionate focus on creating powerful learning communities energized, challenged, and fulfilled me every day.” She now lives and teaches in upstate New York.
