Social Emotional Learning
Social Emotional Learning
Social Emotional Learning
Social-emotional Learning
(Gontariu, 2019)
It is the process which allows individuals to acquire and apply skills, knowledge and
attitude for developing healthy identities, managing emotions, achieving personal and
collective goals, feeling and showing empathy to others, establishing and maintaining
developing equitable environments for learning and coordinating practices across the
classrooms, families, schools and communities for enhancing all social, emotional and
academic learning of all students. CASEL framework has five core competencies which
managing own emotions, behaviours and thoughts in various situations effectively for
achieving goals and aspirations. Social awareness means understanding the perspectives pf
other people and empathizing with them such as for people belonging to diverse cultural
backgrounds and contexts. Relationships skills means the ability of establishing and
maintaining healthy relationships with various groups and individuals. While responsible
decision-making is the ability of making constructive and effective choices and decisions
SEL has a number of advantages for schools, classrooms, communities and families. It can
help in establishing safe and nurturing environments where students and teachers develop
caring and positive relationships. These can help in facilitating students’ learning,
development and generating creative solutions for the problems. Social emotional learning
also helps in enhancing social, emotional growth and academic performance of students.
Hence, social-emotional learning is important for the positive and constructive growth of
individuals. It is beneficial for schools, classrooms, families and communities. This can
produce long term improvement in students’ behaviours, attitudes, skills and academic
performance.
References
DePaoli, J. L., Atwell, M. N., & Bridgeland, J. (2017). Ready to Lead: A National
Principal Survey on How Social and Emotional Learning Can Prepare Children and
Jagers, R. J., Rivas-Drake, D., & Williams, B. (2019). Transformative social and
https://casel.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/CASEL-SEL-Framework-11.2020.pdf
https://casel.org/sel-framework/
https://www.nu.edu/resources/social-emotional-learning-sel-why-it-matters-for-
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