Social & Emotional Learning

A really good example of how social and emotional learning works, and its results can be portrayed on the next video. We see a Chilean School, from Pudahuel District, which has implemented it on their daily lives...


This a really good example that emotional and social learning in fact works... Give us your opinions and tell us your story!

Children's Emotions are essential when we think about their learning processes. Their mood is an important issue, due to the fact that the lack of motivation, sadness, anger and so on, will directly affect their progress. It is important for teachers, parents and children themselves to be aware of how they feel and how they manage emotions. That is why we would like to present this quiz, which children can answer in order to know how they face the way they feel, so they can understand emotions much better, and also that teachers and parents can be aware of how children in general feel... Give it a try!

http://www.kidsemotions.net/

Here you have a booklet about social-emotional intelligence written by Maurice J. Elias. from the International Academy of Education. In it, you will find practical applications inside the classroom of the latest discoveries about social and emotional learning. We encourage you, teachers, to read it carefully and try to implement some of these notions and actions into your class!

http://www.ibe.unesco.org/publications/EducationalPracticesSeriesPdf/prac11e.pdf

Also, take a look at what the author believes about SEL in the next video!

Nowadays, there are new theories that promote the fact that having good relationships is very important, most of all, when it comes to the teacher preparing his or her classes, adapting the lessons and managing his or her emotions, taking students’ emotional and social needs into consideration.
The very same way, the work of teachers has a very heavy emotional burden. As all kinds of professions that are involved with interacting with others, teaching has an emotional additional responsibility: teachers must know themselves and, at the same time, their emotional condition must be understood as well, because they can experience really strong emotions when working and this makes them particularly vulnerable.

Here you have a very interesting and short document about this topic titled “Teacher’s emotions in educational reforms: self understanding, vulnerable commitment and micropolitical literacy”, it was written by Geert Kelchtermans and published by the Center for Educational Policy and Innovation, University of Leuven, Belgium:

http://ppw.kuleuven.be/cobv/pdfs/Emot%20TATE2005.pdf