Incorporating Social/Emotional Learning into Remote Learning
TOPICS
Making a Connection
Defining SEL
Why SEL Matters
Incorporating SEL in the Classroom
Making a Connection
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What is social and emotional learning?
Social and emotional learning (SEL) is the process through which children and adults understand and manage emotions, set and achieve positive goals, feel and show empathy for others, establish and maintain positive relationships, and make responsible decisions.
The Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) lists five core competencies involved in SEL:
Self-awareness: The ability to accurately recognize one’s emotions and thoughts and their influence on behavior. This includes accurately assessing one’s strengths and limitations and possessing a well-grounded sense of confidence and optimism.
Self-management: The ability to regulate one’s emotions, thoughts, and behaviors effectively in different situations. This includes managing stress, controlling impulses, motivating oneself, and setting and working toward achieving personal and academic goals.
Social awareness: The ability to take the perspective of and empathize with others from diverse backgrounds and cultures, to understand social and ethical norms for behavior, and to recognize family, school, and community resources and supports.
Relationship skills: The ability to establish and maintain healthy and rewarding relationships with diverse individuals and groups. This includes communicating clearly, listening actively, cooperating, resisting inappropriate social pressure, negotiating conflict constructively, and seeking and offering help when needed.
Responsible decision-making: The ability to make constructive and respectful choices about personal behavior and social interactions based on consideration of ethical standards, safety concerns, social norms, the realistic evaluation of consequences of various actions, and the well-being of self and others.
What does the research show about SEL?
A 2011 meta-analysis that found that students who receive high-quality SEL instruction have achievement scores on average of 11 percentile points higher than students who did not receive SEL instruction.
A more recent study revealed that a lack of SEL regularly correlated with unfavorable outcomes such as an increased chance of unemployment, divorce, poor health, criminal behavior, and imprisonment.
Advances in neuroscience imply that developing SEL skills in kindergarten “can have long-term academic benefits on students’ reading and vocabulary, including in high poverty schools, suggesting that SEL may assist in closing achievement gaps.”
It also stated, “researchers at Columbia University concluded that for every dollar a school spends on social-emotional learning programs, it sees an eleven dollar return on its investment,” indicating the investment in SEL is worthwhile.
In addition, John Hattie's work on teacher/student relationships shows that improving those relationships carries an effect size of 0.72, which is almost two years' of growth.
THE 3 TCEA TECH TIPS FOR SEL
1. SEL has to be a regular occurrence throughout the whole school year.
2. Connections before curriculum. Build in time to create a relationship with your students
3. Make it fun first before digging deeper.
IDEAS
How would you accomplish this in remote learning?
Different color "Zoom" backgrounds
Students hold up a colored square when entering the "virtual" classroom
Hopefully one day you could change the color of font in the chat.
K -2
Lilly's Purple Plastic Purrse
The Color Monster
3-5
The Name Jar
Harry Potter
Wonder
Middle
Wonder
The PErcy Jackson Series
The Giver
High
The Hate You Give
Gratitude Scavenger Hunt
Keep a calendar and you the educator add ONE positive thing that happened forthe day. It is okay if it is a small thing. Put a reminder on your phone that goes off at the end of the day to do this. Then when you have had a bad day - look back at the previous day's entries.
Do a check in with your students at the beginning of the class : One reason I'm proud of myself, One time I accomplished something I didn't think I could. What is one thing I made progress on.