Personal & Social Core Competency Picture Book List

*Positive Personal and Cultural Awareness*

*Personal Awareness and Responsibility*

*Social Responsibility*

Just posted!  I created this book list for a summer class in Human Development and Theory as part of my course work during my Master's Degree in Self-Regulated Learning at UBC. My passion and teaching philosophy is rooted in Social Emotional Learning and last year I did a lot of work with Core Competencies, teaching, and making them come alive in my classroom. This often took place through lessons involving Children's Literature. As I am a massive picture book lover, creating the Personal and Social Core Competency book list as my course project gave me the excuse to go to Kids Books in Vancouver, and add more beautiful titles to my ever growing collection and do some planning for next year. Take a look! I hope you find the book list helpful and that it might be a starting point for your own core competency journey. If you would like the PDF version feel free to comment below or direct message me on twitter @sd36msjames

http://smilesandsel.blogspot.ca/p/core-competencies.html

Core Competencies Learning

I just posted some work I've been doing with the core competencies and picture books in my classroom. See the new page Core Competencies Learning Ideas http://smilesandsel.blogspot.ca/p/core-competecies.html for some ideas and lesson I have implemented in my classroom. My hope is to update this page as I find new book titles and lesson ideas to link to the Core Competencies.

Happy Learning!

~Lyndsay

My Freshgrade Journey & Classroom Use

Freshgrade Learning 

Check out the link to my new page and the rest of the blog entry....

http://smilesandsel.blogspot.ca/p/digital-documentation-of-student.html

2015/2016 school year I used Freshgrade to document and communicate student learning in my classroom. This year 2016/2017 I am using it but have made some adjustments to how I use, assess and post information. I thought I would share as I find it interesting how others use it in their classroom. This year some of the biggest changes have been creating more time to do more authentic student reflections on the activities and learning we are doing in the classroom. I have created a a document with collaboration with some of my colleagues on some sentence starters to create dialogue between students, teachers, and parents and for students to reflect on their learning and communicate their learning. Check out my page http://smilesandsel.blogspot.ca/p/student-reflection.html I hope it is helpful to spark discussion in your classroom. I also have really taught my students this year to be reflective about themselves as learners. It has been a process to gain insightful responses, and create dialogue between students, teachers and parents. I have really invested time this year into commenting on activities, asking questions and pushing my students further to reflect upon their work, and restate the learning outcomes and process of how this learning came to be. 

Check out the link to my new page and the rest of the blog entry....

http://smilesandsel.blogspot.ca/p/digital-documentation-of-student.html