What Is Social-Emotional Learning (SEL)?
Social-Emotional Learning, scientifically referred to as SEL, is an educational process used for both children and adults to learn and apply the knowledge, attitude, and the skills needed to understand and be able to manage their emotions, goals, feeling empathy for others and building relationships with one another. This is a method used throughout our schools to help support self-control and responsible decision making through fun and non-stressful activities that individuals can connect to through social interaction. Jennifer Buffet and Timothy Shriver of Civic Enterprises stated in their report for CASEL— “The research overwhelmingly shows the linkages among SEL, student outcomes, and school performance. Now, for the first time, we have strong evidence that those on the front lines of American education — our nation’s teachers — embrace SEL in their classrooms, for all students, as well as endorse a more systemic approach to the use of SEL.”
Why it’s Essential for Child Development
Child development is an important part of growing and being successful. One of the essentials to their development is being able to communicate and build relationships with others and having friends they can relate with and be a part of. SEL allows them to do that more easily with fun building activities such as Brackitz because it creates a fun environment to use their imagination rather than sophisticated worksheets they cannot understand. Being able to dream big and put that into a fun activity helps them:
Children are very emotional and can feel what we feel which is why it is important to keep a calm environment and self-control when around them. One little slip of irritation and you start back at the beginning with earning their trust. It literally takes only one second to make them worry or even afraid and the process is not short when having to gain it back. So what issues cause them to step away from us and not communicate?
How it helps Educational Development The Social Emotional Learning process, as stated above, helps them focus on their work and talk to us about their problems they are facing, have faced and builds their confidence in themselves. It encourages them to want to keep learning because SEL allows:
Learning Processes Used The learning processes used in a majority of our school and other educational places generally create an atmosphere that makes a lot of individuals feel:
Why it’s Essential for Child Development
Child development is an important part of growing and being successful. One of the essentials to their development is being able to communicate and build relationships with others and having friends they can relate with and be a part of. SEL allows them to do that more easily with fun building activities such as Brackitz because it creates a fun environment to use their imagination rather than sophisticated worksheets they cannot understand. Being able to dream big and put that into a fun activity helps them:
- Communicate better
- Learn how things work
- Grow in their own way
- Connect to others
- Feel like they belong
Children are very emotional and can feel what we feel which is why it is important to keep a calm environment and self-control when around them. One little slip of irritation and you start back at the beginning with earning their trust. It literally takes only one second to make them worry or even afraid and the process is not short when having to gain it back. So what issues cause them to step away from us and not communicate?
- Not being able to fit in
- Their life turning upside-down suddenly
- Emotional and physical disorders
- Bullying
- Sadness
- Frustration
- Confusion
- Anger
How it helps Educational Development The Social Emotional Learning process, as stated above, helps them focus on their work and talk to us about their problems they are facing, have faced and builds their confidence in themselves. It encourages them to want to keep learning because SEL allows:
- Fun Failure rather than a frustrated child over frustration they feel from a teacher
- Storytelling
- Cooperation
- Motivation
- Self-Awareness
- Self-Management
- Social Awareness
Learning Processes Used The learning processes used in a majority of our school and other educational places generally create an atmosphere that makes a lot of individuals feel:
- Low self-esteem
- Lack of motivation
- Self-loathing
- Suicidal
- And even hate towards adults and others
- Learn their own way
- Bring their imaginations to life through creative activities
- Build Self-esteem
- Build self-motivation
- Build relationships and bonds with family and friends
- Understand their surroundings