Templates: Self Reflection K-2 Math & Reading

These templates can be shared with students to use to set goals and reflect on their learning. Choose a skill and administer a formative assessment. Students graph their baseline data from that assessment and record their strengths and goals for growth. Then, they make a plan for improvement. After recording the results of two subsequent formative assessments, students note if they have shown improvement over time, and make a plan for what they should do next to enhance their own learning.

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Metacognition Toolbox with Google Forms

This document consists of hyperlinks to Google Forms with metacognitive activities, teachers can make a copy of the form to use with their students. Each form has questions using a metaphor which allows students to think about their learning in a new way, concluding with a rate your learning scale.
**The questions can also be integrated with other applications such as Padlet, EasyRetro, Microsoft Forms, Nearpod, or Peardeck.

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Foundations of Social Emotional Learning

This document is a preliminary guide for the foundations of introducing social-emotional learning into classrooms as well as schools and districts as a whole. This document is a summary of work from the Collaborative for Academic Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) as well as the Social-Emotional Competencies Standards created by professors in the Butler College of Education for the Indiana Department of Education.

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Video: Fostering a Growth Mindset with Google Classroom

Decades of research have demonstrated that a student’s mindset is a critical factor that impacts how comfortable and motivated whether they are in person or remote. Specifically, students who possess a growth mindset are more motivated to learn and take on more challenges compared to students with fixed mindsets (Blackwell, Trzesniewski, & Dweck, 2007). This video will focus on the role of Google Classroom as an educational technology tool to foster a student’s development and approach to learning.

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