Relationship Skills

Watch this video introducing relationship skills.

What do you already know about relationship skills?

What are some of the questions you have about relationship skills?

Answer the reflective questions at the end of the video.

Explore some of the resources about Relationship Skills listed below then respond to the reflection questions.

• Social Emotional Learning- Relationship Skills (video)

• Ideals for Building Relationship Skills in a Virtual Classroom (video)

• Relationship Skills: Applying Social Emotional Learning in the Classroom

Reflection Questions: What are at least 2 key take aways about relationship skills? How does/can self awareness benefit students and staff?

Watch Relationship Skills: Social Emotional Learning. Explain how you would help students develop key skills for successful relationships: communication, cooperation and conflict resolution. Share how you would use your personal journey to help students explore the key elements that build good relationship skills.

Read SEL & Beyond: Relationship Skills. Identify a problem of practice in which you can apply some of the strategies that build relationship skills. A problem of practice is an area of need that an administrator, teacher, team, school, or district identifies.

A Problem of Practice:

• focuses on the design of the Curriculum and Environment

• is observable: you can see evidence of the issue you want to address

• is actionable: is within the classroom or school’s/district’s and can be improved in real time);

• connects to a broader strategy of improvement (school, feeder pattern, system);

• is high-leverage (if acted on, it would make a significant difference for student learning);

• promotes expert learning.

Based on your problem of practice regarding relationship skills, reflect on the following questions:

• If students are not being successful in understanding relationship skills, what could we do differently in the design of the curricula to ensure that each student is successful?

• How can we be strategic in how we design learning and/or experiences so our time is spent more effectively around cultivating relationship skills?