Teach Kindness
Teach Kindness
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Teaching kindness...
Promotes empathy
Practices connection
Enhances interpersonal skills
Implementation
Implementation
Overview
The teacher explicitly defines and teaches the concept of Kindness including the science of kindness and "pay it forward" model.
Use resources such as LearnKind and Life Vest Inside to support teaching.
Authentic and explicit opportunities should be created where students can express how it feels to have an act of kindness done to them and how it feels to complete an act of kindness themselves.
Core Components
The foundation and science of kindness is explicitly taught
Spiraled throughout the year not "one off" format
Kindness promoted with opportunities
Proactive Implementation
Teaching kindness looks like devoting the time to allow learning on the science of kindness, its benefits, and how to perform acts of kindness. This proactively sets up opportunities for students to practice showing kindness and common language.
Responsive Implementation
Responsively teaching kindness may result from a lack of connection or empathy. Emphasizing and teaching the benefits of kindness can promote connection and build a sense of community.
Bucket Fits
Bucket Fits
Connection
If the need is connection then focusing on acts of kindness with a kindness log or mission can support commection.
Skills Training
If the need is skill building then practicing the how of kindness to couteraction peer interactions is the focus.
Awareness
If the need is awareness then speaking about the science of kindness and the release of oxytocin in the brain both when kindness is received and provided can be impactful.
Emotional Regulation
If the need is regulation then offering acts of kindness as coping strategy may benefit some students.
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.
Resource
Resource
3-5 Student Journal- Learn Kind.pdf6-8 Student Journal- Learn Kind.pdfK-2 Teacher Manual- Learn Kind.pdf3-5 Teacher Manual- Learn Kind.pdfK-2 Student Journal- Learn Kind.pdf6-8 Teacher Manual- Learn Kind.pdf
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