Seventh Grade SEL

Seventh grade SEL continues to promote and deepen the skills learned in sixth grade. Emphasis is placed on group cooperation, building empathy, and understanding one’s self and others. In seventh grade we invite the students to be introspective, specifically identifying their personal response to conflict and how it plays out in their relationships. The Human Sexuality Unit incorporates the idea of choice and consequences, with sometimes-profound conversations about why people make particular life choices, and how to apply these insights to their own decision-making.

Units of Study

Enhancing Group and Self-Awareness

Unit 1 – Focusing and Centering with Mindfulness
Unit 2 – Nourishing Self and Others
Unit 3 – Empathy

Communication and Cooperation

Unit 1 – Review Elements of Effective Communication
Unit 2 – Develop Listening Skills
Unit 3 – Conflict Resolution and Conflict Response Styles

Cross-Cultural Competencies

Unit 1 – Redefining Diversity
Unit 2 – Perception
Unit 3 – Flash Judgments Continued

Human Sexuality

This unit is designed using the Guidelines for Comprehensive Sexuality Education from SIECUS.

Unit 1 – Human Development: Review Puberty, Review Reproductive Anatomy and Reproduction
Unit 2 – Relationships: Friendships, Love, Dating, Marriage, and Lifetime Commitments
Unit 3 – Personal Skills Values: Behavior and Purpose, Assertiveness Skills
Unit 4 – Sexual Behavior: Intercourse, Shared Sexual Pleasure, Abstinence
Unit 5 – Sexual Health: Contraception and Methods, Sexually Transmitted Infection, Reproductive Health
Unit 6 – Society and Culture: Family Structures, Gender Roles and Gender Spectrum, Body Image and Media Literacy