1. Developing Social Emotional Awareness in Novice Teachers

2. Door Prize Using one of the index cards provided, write your response to the following prompt: Why did you select this session? What is one question you have? Your responses will be collected at the end and entered for a door prize!

3. Our Agenda Today Review Social Emotional Climate Research Share 3 practical strategies Create an Action Plan

4. Our Motivation What we wanted to explore and why…

5. Research Overview REVIEW  Open Circle – Social Emotional Climate and the Success of Teachers: A New Look at the On- Going Challenge of New Teacher Retention (2005) Jacob Murray  NTC website - October 25, 2013- Social and Emotional Learning must be embedded in “great teaching” Kyle Miller  Edutopia – Resources from Mount Desert Elementary School – Rebecca Heniser’s Collaborative Teaching Form

6. Why you should read the report.. It compares effective teachers to novice teachers in key categories…areas where the social and emotional development of the novice teacher’s students influences the teacher’s effectiveness in the classroom Rule setting Routines and transitions Situational awareness Forming relationships Responding to misbehavior

7. Strategy 1 Integrating Student Voices into Mentoring Conversations

8. Using Online Surveys for Middle and High SchoolUsing Online Surveys for Middle and High School Students

10. Online Survey Feedback

11. “She helps me when I don’t know what to do. I know I can talk to her if I need to.”

12. Elementary Survey

15. What we learned about anonymous surveys Novice teachers’ confidence increased based on responses from students when it indicated proficiency

16. Feedback from the students motivated novice teachers to reflect and change their practices! What we learned about anonymous surveys

17. The data yielded by the student surveys provides information the novice teacher would otherwise not be able to access What we learned about anonymous surveys

18. We learned the protocol ensures … … the mentors and novices  REFLECT on the data separately  ALIGN practices to state and district standards  SET GOALS to improve practice.

19. How would you use Student Surveys in your context? Notes Strategy 1

20. Support for Group Mentoring: A Principal’s Perspective

21. Strategy 2 Mentor Led Problem-Solving Groups

22. Problems to Possibilities

25. How would you use Problem Solving groups? Notes Strategy 2

26. Strategy 3 Novice Teachers as Emerging Leaders: Sharing Best Practices

29. How would you use Best Practices groups with novice teacher leaders in your context? Notes Strategy 3

30. Time to Reflect and Create … ACTION PLAN What will you DO as a result of attending this session? Review your notes…

31. What are your “take aways” from this session?

32. INSIGHT #1 When novice teachers and mentors discuss anonymous student perspectives using a protocol ---the novices can immediately change their practices to become more effective teachers

33. INSIGHT #2 When novice teachers experience social emotional learning in problem solving groups they become less anxious and respond to their students in an emotionally balanced way.

34. INSIGHT #3 When novice teachers share best practices with each other, leading their own groups, they experience confidence in their teaching practices and learn how to be colleagues.

35. Where to find videos and resources! DOOR PRIZE!