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Social-Emotional Learning: What Is SEL and Why SEL Matters
This video shared by the Committee for Children covers the basics of Social-Emotional Learning, highlighting the process of developing the self-awareness, self-control and interpersonal skills that are vital for school, work and life success.
For additional background, visit Seattle Public School’s webpage on Social-Emotional Learning. It offers links to a variety of outside resources.
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Power of Relationships (video 12:13): Click the thumbnail to learn how discovery and healing can change your own life, beginning today. The speaker shares how the deep power of relationships with those around us creates environments in which true learning occurs.
His presentation underscores the impact we as tutors can have with students as we develop and deepen meaningful relationships with our students.
How to Incorporate Social-Emotional Learning in Your Classroom When a STEM elementary school teacher wove social-emotional learning into her lesson plans, she saw a tremendous change in her students. This article includes her five beliefs in guiding SEL in lesson planning.
Social Emotional Learning in the Classroom – A Guide for Elementary Teachers One of the most important ways students can feel more connected is through regularly receiving social-emotional learning in the classroom. This article reviews SEL, how to use it and ways to reduce student stress. Includes activities, worksheets and a lesson plan toolkit.
Inside Out and SEL: A Movie Guide and Lesson Plan for Your Classroom This article helps students reflect on the social and emotional aspects of Pixar's Inside Out, a movie that's all about feelings. It includes questions for students to spark discussions about social and emotional learning.
Behavior Expectations and How to Teach Them Instead of assigning disciplinary consequences when students don't meet behavior expectations, why not deal with them as we would deal with academic failures and missteps?
Tapping Into Compassion When Students Push Your Buttons Our brains are wired for knee-jerk responses—so how can you keep compassion and empathy front of mind?
Equity and SEL This article reviews how systemic implementation of SEL both fosters and depends upon an equitable learning environment, where all students and adults feel respected, valued and affirmed in their individual interests, talents, social identities, cultural values and backgrounds.
An Evidence-Based Approach to Infuse SEL into Teaching The Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence has developed a summary and short videos, as well as links to a variety of outside resources, to support educators to bring SEL principles into the classroom.
Feeling Overwhelmed by Emotions? It Could be a Good Time for a Meta-Moment This article is a powerful resource in the SEL curriculum toolkit. Meta-Moments can be used by both tutors and students along your journey of Social-Emotional Learning.