You will be equipped with the following tools:
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Classroom Service Projects
Enhance the classroom environment through student-led service projects fosters accountability, collaboration, social responsibility, purpose, and belonging.
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Developing Positive Habits
Help students develop and maintain positive habits that contribute to their well-being, personal growth, physical health, and academic success.
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Enhancing Resilience Through Strength-Spotting
Help students build and enhance resilience by identifying their strengths and reflecting on how they helped overcome a challenge.
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Finding Flow in the Classroom
This tool provides educators with research-based advice on how to encourage flow in the classroom.
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Goal Setting for Students
Help students set and achieve goals to enhance concentration, reduce anxiety, improve accountability, and build resilience, laying the foundation for mental health and wellbeing.
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Kindness Art for Kids
Help students explore and understand kindness through self-reflection, discussion, and creativity, boosting their compassion and well-being.
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Managing Stress Through Progressive Muscle Relaxation
Guide students through progressive muscle relaxation to demonstrate its effects and convey the effectiveness of this strategy for stress management.
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Mindful Moments
This exercise helps educators integrate mindfulness into classrooms, enhancing students' emotional regulation, reducing stress, and improving focus.
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Mistake of the Week
Help students view mistakes with a growth mindset, empowering them to take academic risks, learn from setbacks, and thrive educationally.
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Music to Inspire Kindness
Create music in the classroom to encourage student generosity and helping behavior.
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Positive Relationships Mapping
Help students visualize and strengthen their key supportive relationships in school, family, online spaces, and friendships.
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Questions to Help Children Make Friends
Help students form friendships and develop social skills through respectful, curious conversations, promoting understanding, empathy, and social bonding.
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Self-Directed Learning
This tool provides educators with steps to encourage self-directed learning in the classroom in order to increase student engagement, motivation, and confidence.
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Think-Pair-Share
Facilitate inclusive discussions using Think-Pair-Share to boost collaboration, communication, and participation.
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Values Visualization
Help students create a visual representation of their values through a vision board and consider ways of aligning future actions with those values.
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What Makes Me Happy
Help students explore happiness through self-reflection, group discussion, and creative activity, increasing awareness of positive emotions and enhancing well-being and resilience.
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What Went Well - A Strengths-Based Reflection
Guide students to identify their strengths and their role in recent successes, enhancing self-esteem, fostering a growth mindset, and understanding their positive impact.
Nicolas Freiler, BEd. –
This collection allows educators to go beyond their curricula and teach their students vital skills for academic success and lifelong learning, such as mindfulness, stress management, habit formation, goal setting, and many more. It does so in 17 well-thought-out, easy-to-implement exercises, cutting down on preparation time while maximizing effectiveness.
Sofia Portela, MSc –
Each tool offers realistic, actionable steps for any educator aiming to enhance their students’ emotional intelligence, learning environment, and resilience. The theoretical concepts are made tangible and easily applicable in the classroom. As educators, it is our responsibility to provide our young students with tools to better understand themselves and their emotions. The difficulty level of the exercises are appropriate for younger students, but can also be modified to fit older ones. They encompass a diverse range of activities that cater to different learning styles while fostering creativity!
Sarah Catherine Colombo, MRes MA MA BA –
The 17 Positive Education Exercises can easily be applied to different levels and settings and blend well with any other subject-specific task!
Rahnuma-e-Istaqbal –
These educational tools offer various strategies for personal growth and community building, such as encouraging reflection, promoting kindness, instilling community values, and improving social skills. I found these tools valuable because they contribute to personal and social development in educational and other supportive environments!