Social and emotional skills development is quickly taking center stage alongside cognitive skills, technical skills, and content knowledge in both the classroom and the workforce. Use this path to learn the fundamentals of how technology helps support social emotional learning in the classroom. Creating a strong community begins with mindfulness. It continues by supporting students through the use of social emotional learning techniques. Flipgrid helps engage students in meaningful ways through reflection activities. Lastly, we tie it all together by empowering educators in the hybrid classroom environment.
The course offers an overview of now various Microsoft products can assist teachers in developing social and emotional skills in their students: Minecraft, Teams, Flipgrid, Sway, OneNote, Reflect.

Microsoft Teams is the most powerful tool we have in the Sun West School Division to collaborate, share files, keep track of assignments, from any device, anywhere online.

In this session we will take a quick look at some of the features in Teams as well as go through the setup of a Class Team.

Microsoft has put together a 5-day guide for school leaders which outlines quick steps that can help shape thinking around the move to remote learning. In addition, Microsoft developed a Microsoft Teams quick start guide, a set of webinars for educators and staff and a specific resource for parents.

Find short videos to support for what you need for Microsoft Teams here.

This is an end-to-end tutorial of Reading Progress in Microsoft Teams. This is a Microsoft Teams new feature for education that improves student reading fluency, saves time and tracks insights and progress. Reading Progress is one of the new features in Microsoft Teams for Education. Teams Reading Progress is a FREE tool that supports students in building reading fluency through independent reading practice, educator review, and educator insights. Reading Progress allows educators to assign reading fluency passages that students can independently record themselves reading out loud. Educators can review the audio and video, and gather insights automatically on student progress. The program automatically detects the student's reading fluency and accuracy. Teachers can get fluency/accuracy data on individual students and for the whole class.

Check out Microsoft Teams Reading Progress blog: https://aka.ms/ReadingProgressMay2021​ to see even more of what this great tool can do for you!

This is a quick start guide from Microsoft to help teachers get started using teams.