PErsonalized Notes at Desk
PErsonalized Notes at Desk
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Using personalized notes...
Builds rapport
Strengthens relationships
Provides acknowledgement
Implementation
Implementation
Overview
Outside of instructional blocks, the teacher or staff member writes a personal note or letter to the student that provides affirmation and words of encouragement to connect.
The letter or note then is discreetly waiting for the student at their assigned seat for them to open at their convenience.
Core Components
Notes must be personal
Given privately to the student
The note should include acknowledgement of something the student achieved or a quality you are aware of.
Proactive Implementation
Proactively writing personalized notes at the beginning of the year for all students creates a sense of belonging and safety. Handwritten and unqiue to information that you may know or transparently learned from the previous educators, families, and other sources is a proactive example of personalized notes.
Responsive Implementation
Responsively introducing personalized notes to a student, group, or class may occur when a specific challenge has surfaced and a need to reassure or establish the connections within the room are present.
Bucket fits
Bucket fits
Connection
If the need is connection then the note must include emotional context between adult and student. Other students may also write notes to a specific student.
Skills Training
If the need is skill building then the personalized note may contain a reference to a specific skill the student is working on.
Awareness
If the need is awareness then the note may be information that demonstrates the supervising adult witnessed a specific interactions and wishes to acknowledge the impact.
Emotional Regulation
If the need is regulation then the note may be kept as a momento or reminder for the student to reference with dysregulated.
Consider Factors Prior to Start
Student factors-
Gender, race, function, topography, family dynamics, interpersonal relationships
Contextual factors -
Resource availability, classroom instruction, physical space, time, technology
Intensifying or Fading During
Duration
Frequency
Feedback
Reinforcement
Goals
REMINDER
Make a note to document when you're starting this intervention.
After 10 consecutive school days of implementation, use collected data to determine the intervention's effectiveness.
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