Self-Assessing SEL Teaching Practices
Overview
In a recent brief produced by the Center on Great Teachers and Leaders (GTL Center), titled Teaching the Whole Child: Instructional Practices That Support Social and Emotional Learning in Three Teacher Evaluation Frameworks, the author identified 10 teaching practices that promote social, emotional, and academic skills.
These 10 practices can further be divided into two types of teaching approaches (see Figure 1):
Social teaching practices
Instructional teaching practices
All 10 of these practices can facilitate the development of student social, emotional, and academic skills. In addition, these practices align with professional teaching frameworks. To learn more about the 10 teaching practices refer to Appendix A in the document below.
SelfAssessmentSEL.pdfTo implement these practices successfully, we must strengthen our own social and emotional skills. In order to model and encourage positive student interactions, we need the social and emotional skills required to communicate effectively with students and to handle stressful situations that can occur in classrooms (Brackett et al., 2009).
Teachers who are socially and emotionally competent develop supportive relationships with students, create activities that build on the strengths of students, and help students develop the basic social and emotional skills necessary to participate in classrooms (Jennings & Greenberg, 2009) (see Appendix B below).
