🤝 With the start of the new school year, a lot of educators are talking about building community within their classrooms.

🏁 Where do you start? One high-leverage area you can focus on is fostering a sense of belonging.

🧵 Here's a thread to help get you started! #physed 📗 First off, what is belonging?

✨ It's the feeling that you are an important part of the systems you live in.

🧠 Belonging is a fundamental psychological need that is baked into our biology as human beings. When that need is fulfilled, we experience a whole range of benefits.

💯 Formative assessment increases the amount of learning that happens in your lessons & shrinks the gap between low- and high-achieving students

🧑‍🍳 But how can we bake it into our teaching?

👇 A thread that walks you through how I structure my #physed lessons to achieve this. 📗 Let's start off with a quick definition:

💯 Formative assessment refers to "frequent and ongoing ways to check students’ progress towards mastery."

📣 H/T @rickwormeli2

✅ A lot has been said about the power of #physed when trying to help students develop a sense of responsibility.

👉 But how do we intentionally go about this?

🧵 Here's a THREAD on the key teaching strategies of the Teaching Personal & Social Responsibility (TPSR) model! 👇 👀 First off, an overview of TPSR.

🎯 The purpose of TPSR is to help young people learn to take control of their own well-being and development, to be efficient in their social environment and to learn how to be sensitive and responsive to the wellbeing of others.

🦊 "Fantastic Mr. Fox" is one of my all-time favourite movies.

💡 It also helped me realize how I could be a more effective #physed teacher.

👇 Check out today's Atomic Essay to learn more about a teaching hack that helps increase physical activity and support student learning. For those of you who live on the other side of the river, here is the scene from the movie: