Personal and Social Skills Synergy Projects 2017-2018

Place based stories

To create cross curricular stories using technology and applications that connect students to their community, engage them in exploration of self and to actively explore their place in the world through the lens of a child.

Self-Identity within a Community of Learners Framework

Target developing my classroom social/emotional needs through using the
Community of Learners framework. Having students encourage and support each other, through the writing process, will develop a sense of trust and classroom community.

Building Mindful Learners

This project will develop a sense of belonging as members of a classroom community, school community and local community. Synonymous with the social studies curriculum goals, it allows students the opportunity to explore their likes/dislikes, interests, etc. in developing themselves as a whole child and who they are as a student learner.

Genius Hour

Genius Hour is a program that has been happening 2016-17 in the class.  Third year doing this program. It has been a collaborative with one other teacher (two different ones over the course of the year).

Discovering Self and Community through Stories

Students who demonstrate personal awareness and responsibility demonstrate self-respect and express a sense of personal well-being. We will embrace this within a focus on storytelling.

Social Stories for an Inclusive 21st Century Kindergarten Classroom

Technology use is quite high, but there are not a lot of equipment in the school. RazKidz is used in the school. Pictello has been used in the school already.

Personal and Social in the Classroom

The project will be an outdoor classroom. It will incorporate big ideas from the curriculum along with First People’s principals of learning and core personal and social competencies.

Personal Wellness Centers

The importance of Social Emotional awareness, Self -Regulation, and Emotional Executive Functioning cannot be overstated in the quest for academic success.

Programming, Robotics and Inclusion
(Not Synergy – special Provincial initiative)

This service will support a block of Robotics and Electronics 10/12 (Block 4) and Robotics and Electronics 9 (blocks 6 and 7) with integration of curricular competencies and content from the ADST 9-12 robotics and electronics curriculum.