Reset Routines Below:
Reset for Patience   •  Reset for Neatness
Reset for Listening  •  Reset for Kind and Polite
Reset for Calm and Settled   •  Reset for Focus
Repairing a Communication Breakdown

Please also see:
Social Emotional Learning: Soft Skills for School and Life
Soft Skills Proficiency Criteria
Soft Skills Programming

Using Classroom Routines to Create a Therapeutic Brain Settling Effect
Important Things to Remember about Routines
Guidelines for Using Routines
Comprehension Guides Directory

Reset for Patience
Patience is a very important life skill and it is consistently embedded in social emotional learning efforts in schools.

Reset for Neatness
Use this routine spontaneously throughout the day (when the area becomes messy or disorganized or too chaotic) to settle and ground the students with a task of organization that also improves their surroundings.

Reset for Listening
Use this routine spontaneously throughout the day when you find that students have become too relaxed about their learning habits and they need repeated reminders to use their listening skills.

Reset for Kind and Polite
Establish the culture in the classroom that prioritizes and values being kind and polite. For this culture to be established, it is essential that teachers practice it and model it themselves.

Reset for Calm and Settled
This routine should be led and modeled by the teacher. Watching an adult follow the routine will help to activate the students’ mirror neuron network to assist in bringing about the feeling of calm (provided that the teacher is actually achieving a calm state).

Reset for Focus
Use this routine when the class is under responsive to repeated reminders to stay on track, or
when the students are too easily distracted by extraneous and unimportant activity.

Repairing a Communication Breakdown
Use this routine to help students who get frustrated with explaining or asking for help or become agitated and sometimes jump to the wrong conclusion with teacher explanations.

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Soft skills are a combination of social skills, work habits, communication skills, character traits, and attitudes that enable people (and students in particular) to work well with others and manage the demands of learning and working. It is difficult to acquire the “hard skills” (e.g., learning to read, write, solve equations, understand basic principles of physics, etc.) if a student hasn’t developed the soft skills to enable the process of learning new things.

Please also see:
Social Emotional Learning: Soft Skills for School and Life (this page)
Soft Skills Proficiency Criteria
Soft Skills Programming
Social Emotional Learning Routines/Reset Routines

Social Comprehension Breakdown
Social Detecting Worksheet

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