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A nice article with practical strategies for the classroom

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As social media becomes more prevalent, social norms change, and incidences of suicide, violence in schools, and drug use among teens increase, social and emotional learning (SEL) becomes more important. It's not enough for students to know the basics of reading, math, science, and social studies. They must also be taught how to interact with others, manage emotions, and make responsible decisions.

According to the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL), there are five key dimensions of social and emotional learning:

Self-Awareness

Self-Management and Emotion Recognition

Social Awareness

Relationship and Social Skills

Responsible Decision Making

Incorporating social and emotional learning at home and in the classroom doesn't require a lot of special effort or isolated activities. Instead, it's involves being intentional about asking questions and structuring activities in a way that gives children and teens a chance to practice building key skills.

Self-Awareness

Self-awareness involves helping students recognize their own thoughts and emotions, as well as building their awareness of what is expected during key tasks.

To build self-awareness, you can regularly ask students to share their thoughts and opinions on topics. At home, this may be talking to children and teens about how they're feeling and encouraging them to consider "what if?" situations. In the classroom, you may try to bring in activities such as:

Anticipation guides

KWL charts

Socratic seminars

Journal prompts

Reflective journals

In addition to helping children and teens become more aware of their thoughts and feelings, you can improve awareness by explaining how they should behave in a given situation.

For example, if you go out to dinner, you want a child to be more aware of the level of his/her voice and how to act in the situation. To improve that sense of awareness, you may need to point out models of positive behavior or mention positive things the child is doing. For example, "I noticed you're using a quiet voice. Thank you for remembering to keep your voice down in the restaurant."

Self-Management and Emotion Recognition

Of course, self-management and emotion recognition directly align with the concept of self-awareness. A child is more aware of his/her actions or emotions may be more likely to better manage those actions and emotions.

A few ways to help children and teens with self-management and emotion recognition include:

providing positive reinforcement when a child or teen does something well

noting what you observe ("I see you are feeling angry")

developing and following a schedule (created with input from the child/teen)

breaking down large projects into smaller parts with milestones to meet

discussing how to respond to scenarios that are likely to crop up

Goal-setting is also a key element of self-management and emotion recognition. You can encourage children and teens to set personal goals and academic goals. For example, a teen may set a personal goal to make the track team and an academic goal to get a 3.3 GPA. Children and teens can also set financial goals, such as saving up for a special toy or a big trip. Don't just stop at the goal though. Take the learning further by actually developing a timeline, setting milestones, and regularly checking progress towards the goal.

Sometimes students won't reach their goals or respond positively to situations. In those moments, you should be there to provide support and talk through the situation.

Social Awareness

Social awareness involves helping children and teens learn how to interact in various situations, as well as how to show empathy and respect for others. Students live in a diverse world and are likely to encounter new perspectives and different opinions every day.

At school, you can build social awareness by having students:

work with those who have different interests, backgrounds, etc.

read texts from a diverse group of authors

study multiple perspectives on a topic

participate in class discussions

show respect by listening to others and valuing their opinions

modeling how to handle difficult topics or situations

Parents and teachers should never underestimate the power of their own actions. Children and teens are watching to see how the adults in their lives respond to differing opinions, embrace diversity, and show empathy and respect to others. Your response to a trying situation may be a highly teachable moment.

Relationship Skills

Some children and teens can just go right up to a stranger and start talking. They have the ability to easily form relationships and interact with people. For others, it takes more effort. However, relationship skills goes beyond just being able to make friends. It's also involves communicating with and listening to others, resisting peer pressure, negotiating conflict, and learning to ask for help.

At home and in the classroom, let children and teens it's okay to come to you with a problem or to ask for help and respond positively when they do. You may have to remind them a few times or say, "If you want help with that, I'm here to help you."

Some other ways to build relationship skills include:

role playing conversations children and teens may have

refusing to step in when they have a conflict with someone else (unless safety is an issue

giving them plenty of opportunities to engage in back-and-forth conversation and modeling good listening skills

holding debates in the classroom

starting a peer mediation program

letting children and teens negotiate with you

Responsible Decision-Making

As parents and teachers, it's easy to want to make decisions for children and teens. However, to function as adults, they need to learn how to responsibly make decisions. Both at home and in the classroom, you can help promote by responsible decision-making by giving children and teens a chance to make choices. Choices can include:

rules for the classroom or home

the type of activity to complete

what to have for dinner

what sport or activity to join

Of course, they're not always going to make the right decision. That's why another key component of teaching responsible decision-making is providing a safe place for children and teens to fail and learn from their mistakes. If you berate or ridicule them when they make a mistake, they'll be less likely to take a risk in the future or they'll become so concerned with perfection that they'll drive themselves crazy. Instead, respond to mistakes positively and provide support and guidance to help them grow.

Remember, it's not just students with autism or learning disorders who need to build social and emotional skills. Even straight-A students or seemingly well-adjusted children can benefit from a little more help in this area.

Do you focus on SEL in your home or classroom? If so, we'd love to know how you incorporate SEL activities into your daily routine.

Stacy Zeiger is a high school English teacher who also works as the manager of ELA content for HelpTeaching.com and serves as curriculum developer for My Sisters' Kids, an organization that provides peer support for grieving kids and teens. Stacy has her own line of character education curriculum which can be found at BuildingKidsCharacter.org. She lives in South Jersey with her husband, two children, and eight cats. Her oldest son has autism.

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Ways to Bring Social and Emotional Learning into the Home and Classroom

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As social media becomes more prevalent, social norms change, and incidences of suicide, violence in schools, and drug use among teens increase, social and emotional learning (SEL) becomes more important. It's not enough for students to know the basics of reading, math, science, and social studies.

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Example of a self-management skill teaching strategy

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Example of a self-management skill teaching strategy

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Think about how this ties into the ATL's and LP

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A good resource for strategies to incorporate ATL Skills. Similar the the ATL in the MYP document.

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Convenient chart for Approaches to Learning Skills.

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Convenient chart for Approaches to Learning Skills.

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Includes essential questions related to those skills

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Strategies for the classroom
Cognitive Skills Model
Decision-Making Models
Historical/Geographic Inquiry
Inquiry Process
Mathematical Problem Solving
Problem-Based Models
Questioning Process
Research Process
Scientific Method
Technical Design Process
Writing Process

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Self-Evaluation Chart that could be used by teachers and students.

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ATL's are cross-disciplinary and run throughout the IB continuum. Even though this is for MYP it is still relevant to DP.

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IBMYP Approaches to Learning (AtL) Continuum Documnet - May 2013

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Strategies for the classroom
Analyzing Bias/Stereotype
Anticipation Guide
Brainstorming
Case Study
Classifying
Concept Clarification
Concept Mapping
Estimating
Experimenting
Expressing Another Point of View
Fair Test
Graphing
IDEAL Problem Solving
Issue-Based Analysis
Lateral Thinking
Manipulatives
Map Making
Media Analysis
Mental Calculation
Meta-cognitive Reflection
Mind Map
Model Making
Oral Explanation
Problem Posing
Problem Solving
Process Notes
Semantic Feature Analysis
Seriation
Statistical Analysis
Think Aloud
Visual/Graphic Organizers
Writing to Learn

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A great link to all things ATL but you will need a vpn.

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A great link to all things ATL but you will need a vpn.

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https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1CPrLC-jpt60bolHCFTzIjWa3KkIEtrJsErQ8KaPOImk/edit#gid=18779973