Unit 1: Understanding SEL
Unit 2: Classroom community and students emotions
Please begin the unit by watching this short video on SEL.
What is SEL
- SEL is the process through which all young people and adults acquire and apply the knowledge, skills, and attitudes to develop healthy identities, manage emotions and achieve personal and collective goals, feel and show empathy for others, establish and maintain supportive relationships, and make responsible and caring decisions.
- As school communities, we must seek to support the whole child, caring for them as people and helping them develop a strong foundation of emotional skills to cope with challenging situations, resolve conflict, and build healthy relationships.
- Social and emotional learning (SEL) is the process that all individuals go through as they develop the intrapersonal and interpersonal skills that will help them thrive -- in their own lives, as members of their communities, and in the world at large.
What is emotional intelligence?
Why include SEL
- Very simply, students need social and emotional learning skills to succeed in school and in life.
- Research has shown that school-wide implementations of SEL can lead to improved academic performance, decreased conflict between students, and can help students feel more invested in their school communities.
What does the research say?
https://casel.org/fundamentals-of-sel/what-does-the-research-say/
https://casel.org/fundamentals-of-sel/what-is-the-casel-framework/#social-emotional-learning
SEL & Technology
Technology's impact on students' social and emotional well-being can vary across age and levels of development. It's important to help your students learn the skills that are most important to them, whether it's understanding how devices affect their feelings or how social media impacts their friendships.
In order to foster emotional intelligence students must possesses these 5 qualities: -Self-awareness -Self-regulation -Social Skills -Empathy -Motivation
When students depend on technology interaction they tend to have less time with their own thoughts and feelings. Students begin to slip away from mindfulness and stray away from emotional intelligence.
Please click the link to the effects of technology dependence and its effects on social and emotional learning.
Reflect
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