Frameworks and Approaches

Questions to ask when Integrating SEL

Transforming Education (2019) provided significant questions that educators/work administrators should think about when incorporating SEL into their environments:

What are your goals for supporting your students’/wokers' social-emotional development?
How can you leverage you students’/workers' strengths and engage their interests, backgrounds, and experiences to practice SEL?
Where do you see opportunities to discuss and practice social-emotional skills in your lesson in ways that are directly connected to academic learning?
How can you see the different components to meet students/workers where they are and scaffold their learning?

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What factors to consider when integrating SEL in schools and workplaces?

When integrating SEL approaches effectively in a school or work environment it is important to consider the following factors (Jones & Bouffard, 2012):

Continuity and Consistency
Social, emotional and academic skills are interdependent
SEL skills develop in Social Contexts
Classrooms, Schools and Workplaces Operate as Systems - having partnered relationships within the community and other social networks

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Ways to Integrate SEL

Have explicit instruction about SEL Skills in School and in the workplace
SEL should be integrated within Academic Curriculum/ Workplace
Teachers/Workplace Instructional Practices
Have short and long term SEL goals and action plans to reach those goals
Provide professional development and resources about SEL
Monitor progress and reflection about the process of reaching SEL goals

When integrating SEL approaches in your school/workplace environment this will reflect positive short and long term goals in the skills fostered in individuals and within the environment.

Diagram Reference: CASEL. (2020). Approaches. Retrieved from CASEL: https://casel.org/what-is-sel/approaches/

Diagram Reference: Brandie, O. M. (2018). Indiana Department of Education Social-Emotional Learning Toolkit: Built Upon A Neurodevelopmental Culturally Responsive Framework. Scholarship and Professional Work- Education, 2-70. Retrieved July 2020, from https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1160&context=coe_papers

S.A.F.E.R. Model

CASEL provides a teaching framework that can be integrated into your instruction to teach SEL called SAFE model:

Sequenced: Connected and coordinated activities to foster skills development
Active: Active forms of learning to help students master new skills
Focused: a component that emphasizes developing personal and social skills
Explicit: Targeting specific social and emotional skills
* Reflection: reflecting on how SEL is impacting other aspects of your life.

Note: Reflection is an added component by Dr. Brandie Oliver. By adding the reflection component to the S.A.F.E. model developed by CASEL, it highlights how S.A.F.E.R. model is a more self-transformational process and connects a holistic perspective on the individual.

For more information on Specific SEL Strategies and Resources for different age groups view:

SEL for all ages

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