Self-awareness is one of the key competencies outlined by CASEL (Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning) They define self-awareness as “The ability to accurately recognize one’s own emotions, thoughts, and values and how they influence behavior as well as the ability to accurately assess one’s strengths and limitations (2020).”Strategies for Teaching Kids to be Self-AwareThroughout this episode I will share how I teach students self-awareness and what activities I use to do so. I outline and walk you through the seven lessons I use to teach this social emotional learning competency. I also talk about all of the fun and engaging activities I use to teach student self-awareness. If you are looking for a road map to teaching self-awareness success you are in the right place. The lessons I review are simple lessons that teach this competency explicitly. I love teaching skills explicitly and all of the activities I include are fun and engaging ways to reinforce the lessons.You can take the information you hear in the episode and design a whole unit around teaching kids to be self-aware. Too busy to create a whole unit right now?No worries, I designed the whole unit for you! (Click here to get the unit now)This self-awareness unit is perfect for busy teachers, counselors, or school psychologists who are looking for self-awareness lessons and activities to do with their students. The lessons are low prep and come with step by step directions for anyone using them. They can be done with the whole class or in small groups or centers in the classroom. Counselors and teachers can use these self-awareness lessons and activities in their small groups.The Unit Includes 8 self-awareness lessons about·      What is self-awareness ·      Self-awareness of emotions ·      Self-awareness of thoughts ·      Self-awareness of behaviors·      Connecting emotions, thoughts, and behaviors ·      Self-awareness of values·      Self-awareness of strengths ·      Self-awareness of goalsEach lesson comes with an interactive activity for students to complete to help reinforce these skills. Classroom visuals that come in black and white are included so you can print them in either format. This unit comes in print and digital versions.The print version comes in a (non-editable) pdf format. This makes it easy and low prep for teachers. Everything is done for you, all you have to do is print the social skills lessons and activities for your students. Follow the lesson and instructions and your students will find the activities fun and engaging!The digital version comes via google slides links.  I recommend saving them in your google drive in individual folders corresponding to each lesson. There are step by step instructions included walking your through how to assign the activities to your students in google classroom.(Click here to get the unit now)Join the Teaching Behavior Together CommunityJoin the email list for weekly emails, monthly freebies, and alerts for sales and new products. (Click Here)Visit my website for more strategies and interventions you can use daily in your classroom. (Click Here)Follow me on Instagram for daily behavior and social emotional learning tips (Click Here)Follow me over on Pinterest for all things behavior and social emotional learning (Click Here)