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"The abilities to understand one’s own emotions, thoughts, and values and how they influence behavior across contexts".

- Quote from casel.org

The fundamental idea of self awareness is the description that follows the ability to understand yourself, your thoughts, the aspects of yourself, the entire ideas of what it means to be "aware" of your current state.

If you've ever been sad, acknowledged your sad, maybe scrolling on YouTube, realizing you're wasting your time, and doing something different, something as arbitrary as consumption can be the major difference between having control of your life or not.

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What is Social Emotional Learning?

Social Emotional Learning is the process of being aware of ones self, expressing empathy, completing collective goals, responsible decision making, and management of ones emotions.

There has probably been a time where you've genuinely thought about who you are as a person, what you mean to people, and what it means to be overall a good person in society. Social Emotional Learning is the acknowledgement of these aspects of life, and how to develop those essential skills.

Of course, no one wants to live their life always depressed, everyone has their desires, aspirations, and agendas in life that make them just as unique as everyone else. In response to this, SEL Skills are composed of 5 Areas:

Self-Awareness (Dylan)

Self-Management (Juraiyan)

Social Awareness

Relationship Skills (Tori)

Responsible Decision making

This presentation will go in-depth about 3 of these Areas in particular, being Self-Awareness, Self-Management and Relationship Skills. Each of these will have 2 elaborated skills relating to the said SEL Area.

By the end of this presentation, we hope you can have a deeper understanding of what SEL skills really mean, and how you can live your most fulfilling life that you can.

"Chances are, you just named social and emotional skills – like staying motivated, communicating effectively, practicing curiosity, and working with others to solve problems. Social and emotional learning, helps develop the skills we need for life." - Quote from casel.org

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Advancing Social and Emotional Learning - CASEL

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CASEL is helping make evidence-based social and emotional learning an integral part of education, preschool through high school.

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One powerful tool that can help in this process is affirmations. Affirmations are positive statements that students can repeat to themselves to reinforce positive self-beliefs.

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As students navigate through their academic journeys, it is crucial for them to develop a positive mindset and believe in their abilities.

One powerful tool that can help in this process is affirmations. Affirmations are positive statements that students can repeat to themselves to reinforce positive self-beliefs.

Affirmations are another great tool to add to your social and emotional learning toolkit. Classroom teachers need as many tools as they can get to help their students navigate mental health challenges.

Here are ten science-based reasons why students should use affirmations:

1. Improved Self-Esteem: Affirmations can enhance self-esteem by promoting positive self-beliefs and reducing self-doubt.

2. Increased Academic Performance: Positive affirmations have been linked to improved academic performance and higher levels of achievement.

3. Reduced Test Anxiety: Affirmations can help students manage test anxiety, allowing them to perform better during exams.

4. Enhanced Problem-Solving Skills: Affirmations can foster a growth mindset and enhance problem-solving skills by promoting a belief in one's ability to overcome challenges.

5. Improved Focus and Concentration: Affirmations can help students improve their focus and concentration, leading to better learning and retention of information.

6. Stress Reduction: Affirmations have been shown to reduce stress levels and promote emotional well-being, creating a conducive environment for learning.

7. Increased Resilience: Affirmations can enhance resilience, enabling students to bounce back from setbacks and persevere in facing challenges.

8. Improved Motivation and Goal Setting: Affirmations can boost motivation and help students set meaningful goals, leading to increased drive and perseverance.

9. Enhanced Emotional Intelligence: Affirmations can support the development of emotional intelligence by promoting self-awareness, self-regulation, and empathy.

10. Positive Mindset: Affirmations can help students cultivate a positive mindset linked to improved mental health and overall well-being.

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The Benefits of Affirmations for Students: Cultivating Positive Mindset and Academic Success

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One powerful tool that can help in this process is affirmations. Affirmations are positive statements that students can repeat to themselves to reinforce positive self-beliefs.

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I believe, the issue most people face in school is their perspective on a challenge. It is significantly easier to escape to your phone for example, scrolling on whatever short form content platform you prefer, than actually doing the assignment. I see this everywhere in every class, people who escape to a comfortable world instead of facing a challenge.

Having the Right Mindset: Affirmations

Take a moment to look at yourself in the mirror and mentally or verbally tell yourself something nice. Something as little as an affirmation can be the difference between stressing out over a test or even being motivated to get work done at all. Some benefits of affirmation in an academic setting would be:

Reduced Test Anxiety

Affirmations can help students manage test anxiety, allowing them to perform better during exams

Enhanced Problem-Solving Skills

Affirmations can foster a growth mindset and enhance problem-solving skills by promoting a belief in one's ability to overcome challenges.

Improved Motivation and Goal Setting

Affirmations can boost motivation and help students set meaningful goals, leading to increased drive and perseverance.

Positive Mindset

Affirmations can help students cultivate a positive mindset linked to improved mental health and overall well-being.

Taking this step of self affirmations can significantly improve workflow and focus in an academic setting.

Regulating Emotions with Breathing Exercises

Regulating Stress levels before a test or a presentation worth a majority of your grade is a skill that is essential for some people in practice.

Body scan exercise Close your eyes and slowly scan your body from head to toe. Notice any areas of tension, discomfort, or relaxation. Pay attention to how different parts of your body feel and any emotions or thoughts that arise.

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Juraiyan: When it comes to time management it is a skill to say as an example set goals and schedules to get work done and feel more organize about yourself to know what's due or events that'll happen.

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A career I want to be is a programmer, more specifically a software engineer. The average requirement for this type of job in the competitive environment is some type of work credit, or work years (4+ Years of Javascript, 5HTML, etc). Most optimally, I will make computer science my major in college to make sure that I have every requirement I need to make sure that I have a successful future.

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Juraiyan: A career I want to achieve is Real Estate because you have to go through hardships to earn money but once that fulfillment has been achieved then the cycle continues to the point that you don't need to continue to work or keep going to earn more money by buying houses. To become a Real Estate Agent I need to earn a high school diploma or GED and a college to go to would be University of Southern California

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What I wanna try and go for is to be a full time actress. I am going to be attending MiraCosta College to get my Bachelor degree in theater so it gives me some experience. I am also going to join some acting clubs that are on campus so I can push myself more into the acting community. After college I am going to look for agencies to get some acting gigs. As well as taking acting classes so I can learn more skills and get my foot out of the door.

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Juraiyan: Organization is a developed system to make time and energy to improve functionality. If we organize ourselves, make a schedule, prioritize and have important activities, it can be effective depending on the events or an assignment to get it done. responsibilities.

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Juraiyan: Time Management is a management skill that allows us to prioritize tasks, avoid distractions and maintain focus. Effective time management in the workplace helps with setting and meeting deadlines, working on one thing at a time and taking responsibilities more appropriately. Managing our time is a crucial skill to have if we need to finish a task, assignment, etc.

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Tori: It's Important as human beings to understand how others are feeling It's also important to be able to communicate how they are feeling. You also express your emotions in a communication way. These skills are very useful in life and help you when you need to collaborate with someone. Without communication none of the world success would be possible all the things that we as man kind created included communication.

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Another important skill for relationships is being observant around others and yourself. For example if you have a friend who is upset you can observe their facial expressions or verbal expressions as well to see they are upset like if they have a frown on their face or are crying. There are many ways you can observe others but you can also observe your own emotions and notice how you are feeling in the moment.

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Something I think alot of teens have a problem with is avoiding distractions when they are needing to be doing something proactive. Whether it's doing chores or doing school work the biggest distraction is technology like a phone is a big distraction with teens. This can be resolved by maybe setting a timer on how long you want to spend time on the phone before doing tasks

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There is a major difference in perspective when it comes to a challenge.

Take for example the friend you've had, who doesn't really care about learning, who doesn't see a challenge as a opportunity to learn, and always as a reason to slump over and avoid challenging work.

"[It was found that] people’s theories about their own intelligence had a significant impact on their motivation, effort, and approach to challenges."

- Quote from https://www.mindsetworks.com/Science/Impact

An individual's perspective on life matters; Having a growth mindset is a major step to having better self awareness. A common way to visualize the difference between them is to juxtapose both mindsets:

Fixed Mindset

Avoid challenges

Ignore feedback

Expect reward without effort

Growth Mindset

Embrace Challenges

Learn from feedback

Effort is a path to mastery

Putting both of each mindset's habits together this way, it may become clear why a simple difference in perspective can change the entire idea of a challenge in life.

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Skill #2: Demonstrating Honesty and Integrity

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Skill #2: Demonstrating Honesty and Integrity

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Being honest with not just people, but yourself, is one of the ways that can significantly improve your self awareness.

Consider a time in your life where you've done something wrong, and you found it easier to ignore the problem, or maybe shut it out completely. Imagine the kind of habits that can develop from that mindset, maybe even subconsciously convincing someone that ignoring things in life is okay.

Then, in serious situations, would you lie and tell people what they want to hear? Even if telling the truth would harm someone?

"Research has established a strong correlation between integrity and increased self-esteem and life satisfaction ... By promoting a sense of purpose and authenticity, integrity leads to more positive self-appraisal"

- Quote by https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/beyond-school-walls/202304/the-integral-role-of-integrity

By acknowledging and being honest about ones flaws, then it is possible for someone to grow from the flaws that make up their being. Simply just taking a moment to reflect on yourself, significantly improves your self awareness.