1st Grade Instructional Guide

Building Resilience Building resilience is part of a key set of skills that involves understanding your emotions, how to manage them, and ways to express them constructively. This enables one to handle stress, control impulses, and motivate oneself to persevere in overcoming obstacles to achieve academic and personal goals.

Developmental Learning Targets Grades KDG - 2

Developmental Learning Targets Grades 3 - 5

Developmental Learning Targets Grades 6-8

Students will be able to recognize and name their own basic emotions and how they are linked to behavior.

Students will be able to describe a range of emotions in self and others and what causes them. Students will be able to identify a variety of effective coping strategies to deal with stressors. Students will be able to, with minimal adult guidance, manage emotions (e.g., stress, impulses) in a manner that is respectful to self and others. Students will be able to, with minimal adult guidance, identify how emotions may affect behavior in themselves and others.

Students analyze factors that impact both negative and positive emotions.

Students will be able to identify sources of stress

Students will apply strategies to manage stress.

(e.g., losing a game, being left out, etc.)

Students will be able to identify what triggers a strong emotion and apply an appropriate calming or coping strategy to defuse the emotional trigger.

Students will be able to, with adult guidance, demonstrate a variety of strategies to manage strong emotions.

Students will be able to identify factors that may impact their emotions and healthy ways to self

Students will be able to, with adult guidance, verbally express their emotions.

advocate for their emotional needs.