Social-Emotional Learning
Teachers pay close attention to the development of each student.
While warmly encouraging critical thinking, active exchange, and cooperation, our teachers take special care of each child's linguistic and social emotional development. Students interact in deeply meaningful ways with each other, becoming interested in peers and developing trusting relationships. Students feel a part of the classroom, are more comfortable in school, and are building a community.
The techniques used in the classroom are also implemented in the After School Program, ensuring consistency and creating a more cohesive structure and integrated experience for students, teachers, and staff.
In Kindergarten classrooms and in Lower School and Middle School classrooms, teachers utilize the research-based Responsive Classroom approach. This approach provides a safe, challenging, and joyful climate for students throughout their years at The International School of San Francisco. All of our students’ needs—academic, social, emotional, and physical—are important and recognized in this approach to teaching and learning.
Teachers understand us, and give us time to do the thing we like so we're more motivated to learn.
Mina,
Lower School Student