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Bullying Classroom Lesson Planner Printable

2012-02-26T08:58:00.001-05:00

Last week I had the opportunity to meet with 5th grade teachers at their team meeting. They asked if I could come into their classes and do lessons on bullying. Of course I was thrilled to do classroom lessons with 5th graders!

I planned with the teachers to come in for a series of lessons with 5th grade during their morning meeting time. I am making a schedule so that I will facilitate two lessons in each classroom and then start at the first class again for more sessions. I am working on planning the lessons so they will go in a progression.

In my continued attempt to avoid "Random Acts of Guidance," I decided that this would be a perfect opportunity to create a classroom lesson planner for bullying. I created the classroom lesson planner to help me keep track of what lessons I plan to facilitate and how they align to ASCA standards.

The first classroom lesson planner I created is a Bullying Classroom Lesson Planner. I created a PDF file of the Bullying Classroom Lesson Planner you can download by clicking on the highlighted text or by clicking on the pictures!

The first page of the Bullying Classroom Lesson Planner includes a section to record the grade, teacher, and schedule for when you plan to facilitate the lessons. There is also a space to write about the objectives for the lessons. In this section you can also record any information that will help you plan or select lessons you will facilitate.

The second page of the Bullying Classroom Lesson Planner has space for you to record the Lesson Number and the date at the top. There are four boxes to include information. The first box, LEQ is the Learning Essential Question, or the question you want students to be able to answer at the end of the lesson. The second box is a space to record the ASCA standards you are addressing in the lesson. The third box is for resources or materials you may need for the lesson. The fourth box is a space for any notes you may have about the lesson and ideas for follow-up lessons.

I am very excited to use the Bullying Classroom Lesson Planner to plan my bullying lessons! I love that I will be able to look back to this planner to see what I did and what ASCA standards I met by facilitating the lessons!

Feel free to print and share the Bullying Classroom Lesson Planner with other school counselors!

Also check out the Self-Esteem Group Planner I shared in my previous post!

What other classroom lesson planners would you like me to create and share on School Counselor Blog?

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Danielle is a K-12 Certified School Counselor, Nationally Certified Counselor, and blogger at School Counselor Blog, a place where school counselors share innovative ideas, creative lesson plans, and quality resources. Connect with Danielle via email, Twitter, Pinterest, LinkedIn, Google+, and become a fan of the School Counselor Blog Facebook Page.

Self-Esteem Group Planner Printable

2012-02-19T19:04:00.001-05:00

Lately I have been trying to come up with ways to make what I do more purposeful in an effort to avoid doing "Random Acts of Guidance." :)

I decided to create ways to keep track of what I am doing how what I am doing aligns to ASCA standards.

The first thing I have created is a group session planner to store and record group sessions I facilitate with students.

My goal is to make a group session planner for each of the groups I facilitate. This will help me determine which ASCA standards I am addressing during each session. Using a group session planner will not only help me in the short term, but it will help me in the long term when I plan to facilitate the activity or lesson again!

The first group planner I created is a Self-Esteem Group Planner. I created a PDF file of the Self-Esteem Group Planner you can download by clicking on the highlighted text or by clicking on the pictures!

The first page of the Self-Esteem Group Planner includes a section to record the grade, name, and teacher of the group members. There is also a space to write about the group goals and the focus of the groups. You could also write any other notes you may have before beginning the group.

The second page of the Self-Esteem Group Planner has space for you to record the Session Number and the date at the top. There are four boxes to include information. The first box, LEQ is the Learning Essential Question, or the question you want students to be able to answer at the end of the lesson/group. The second box is a space to record the ASCA standards you are addressing in the session. The third box is for resources or materials you may need for the session. The fourth box is a space for any session notes you may have.

The Self-Esteem Group Planner has already begun to help me be more focused and purposeful. I hope it helps you as well! So far this year I have facilitated a self-esteem group for 5th grade girls and a self-esteem group for 5th grade boys. I wish I would have created this at the beginning of the group so that I would have a finished one! I will be sharing some of the group sessions I already recorded with you, but my planner is at school right now.

Feel free to print and share the Self-Esteem Group Planner with other school counselors!

What group session planners would you like me to create and share on School Counselor Blog?

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Emotions Tree

2012-02-18T09:49:00.001-05:00

I am so excited to share the Emotions Tree with you because it is one of my favorite counseling techniques! There are so many ways you can use the Emotions Tree with students.

I hadn't used the Emotions Tree yet this year in my work with students because I misplaced it somewhere when I moved my office downstairs. I wanted to use the Emotions Tree for the remainder of my Minute Meetings to help students who have difficulty identifying feelings or coming up with feeling words. I searched online and couldn't find a high quality copy of the Emotions Tree. I printed one out even though it wasn't very high quality to test it out and see how it worked with Minute Meetings for students.

As I suspected using the Emotions Tree for Minute Meetings worked wonderfully!

Using the Emotions Tree was very helpful for students who struggled to come up with a word besides "good" or "okay" to describe how they were feeling. I showed students the Emotions Tree and asked them to "pick out a person on this tree you feel like most of the time outside of school" or "pick a person on this tree you feel like most of the time during school." Students were easily able to identify how they were feeling when looking at the Emotions Tree.

"On Top of the World"

One student who originally said "good" was able to identify herself as feeling "on top of the world" after pointing to the emotion person standing at on the top of the tree. Using the Emotions Tree allows children and adolescents to project their feelings onto something else, which tends to make them feel safer. When students pointed to the emotion person I asked them to "describe how the emotion person feels." After they identified how the person felt I brought it back to how they were feeling, and asked questions like "What about school makes you feel on top of the world?" The student responded "I have high honors and school is fun."

I have used the Emotions Tree with children and adolescents of many ages. I have used it in groups and individual counseling sessions. I also had the Emotions Tree hanging on my wall before and plan to hang it on my wall again. Students are drawn to the Emotions Tree and enjoy identifying which emotion person they feel like.

Yesterday I made it my mission to find my personal copy of the Emotions Tree after school. I was very excited when I found it and even more excited that I was able to scan it to a PDF file. Now I can share the Emotions Tree with you and have a copy for myself that is easy to reproduce. (Click on any of Emotions Tree links to be directed to a PDF file you can download!)

How will you use the Emotion Tree in your work with students?

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