New Teams features help improve your classroom's well-being
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- 29 Aug 2022
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Listening to and empathizing with students through ongoing dialogue is vital to their current and future success. And with the right tools educators can foster an environment where students feel heard and help keep a pulse on their emotional well-being.
That’s why we’re excited to tell you about new Microsoft Teams features that help educators recognize students’ needs and foster more classroom communication.
Reflect helps students build their emotional skills
Reflect—a feature in Microsoft Teams—can help learners broaden their emotional vocabulary, recognize and navigate their emotions better, and deepen empathy for their peers. It does this in part by providing regular opportunities for students to share and be heard.
Reflect also benefits educators by providing them valuable feedback and helping build a healthy classroom community that makes social emotional learning routine. Research has demonstrated that explicit teaching of social and emotional skills improves student academic and behavioral performance and has lifelong positive effects.
At Microsoft, we know that self-awareness and self-management are critical skills for lifelong learning, so Reflect provides opportunities for students to reflect on their learning. This helps educators better understand how students receive their curriculum and work with students to increase the agency they have in their own learning process. The benefit is helping students develop a growth mindset by honestly evaluating their own effort, motivation, and progress.
Reflect also provides a safe space for students to practice asking for help in areas where they feel challenged. Students can do check-ins using emojis and characters, which allows them to express themselves and develop emotional awareness. Only educators can see their students’ reflections, so students never have to worry about privacy. Read More...
