Becoming an Effective Educator

• This portion of orientation is all about thinking more broadly about your role as a teacher. 

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• We want to think about what we need to do as educators to set the stage for classrooms that are safe, organized, functional, consistent, and that are places where students learn how to be better, more emotionally intelligent, more capable human beings. 

Activity 1
​Tools of An Effective Educator

Activity 1 (15 mins)

• Download this doc

• Read and highlight or take notes

• Let's share out our thoughts as a group

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Transferable Skills (5 mins)

Transferable Skills (especially social emotional skills) are not necessarily content based and can be taught in every classroom by any teacher.

These skills are often intangible and abstract making it difficult to know exactly how to teach them. But make no mistake - kids don't just pick up these skills, you have to teach them, explain them, model them, and deliberately and intentionally provide opportunities to practice them. 

We have to be intentional in our efforts to empower students to become better human beings.

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Activity 2
SEL Goals Breakdown

• We will take the next 25 minutes to complete this activity including a brief share out

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Summer 2025 - SEL Unit Goals - Per Teacher

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Activity 3
Discovery Learning (20 mins)

Look at the images below. Look at them individually but also as a collective group.

• What do you notice? (about the kids, the teachers, the activites?)

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• What kinds of learning do you see happening in these images? How does what you see align with the terms above?

• What do you have to do to set the stage for this kind of learning?

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• What might discovery learning look like in your classroom?

How You and Past Summerbridge Teachers Defined an Outstanding Educator

Activity 3
Outstanding Educator Words -
ALLY (25 mins)

• First and foremost, we are Allies for our students. Being an ally ultimately encompasses all of the words above

• Together, we are going to come up with a personal goal for the summer. 

• Finish this goal: I want to become an ally for my students in order to______

• Fill in the blank - whatever that looks like - a phrase, multiple words, etc.

• Write it out on paper, then use this sheet to record your final wording

• Together, we will look at all of these and merge it into a single goal.

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• Let’s do the breakdown we did during your meetings - I will take notes on a doc we all have access to
  • Definitions
  • Process
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