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i gotta batman cup

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Tired

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From the late columnist Art Buchwald

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Lessons are too complicated for beginning English speakers

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Lessons are too complicated for beginning English speakers

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How can SEL be incorporated into daily teaching curriculum?

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How can SEL be incorporated into daily teaching curriculum?

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Everyone learns how to survive a crisis.

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Everyone learns how to survive a crisis.

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I am feeling a lot of stress with going back to school, trying to teach concurrently and the phases of our county going back.

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I am feeling a lot of stress with going back to school, trying to teach concurrently and the phases of our county going back.

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I think it helps us all be a little more vulerable

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I think it helps us all be a little more vulerable

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We need to listen to Students and have them give their opinions.

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SEL has many benefits. One of them is help build community during remote instruction.

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I do a SEL do now every day at the start of class. Each month is a theme of a skill to focus on/grow in. It works well when each do now builds off the day before. Often times they watch a short 2-3 min video about a skill and then respond in a chat or padlet. Let me know if you want to know more ~Jen Hinerman

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It's helps us get to know students and I've learned somethings about students that might not have been shared or come up otherwise. 

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It's helps us get to know students and I've learned somethings about students that might not have been shared or come up otherwise. 

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I believe that we are doing it to help students process the word around them whether that be at home or their relationships.

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It is a great check in with each individual student.

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It is a great check in with each individual student.

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It helps us teach students to look inwards in this crazy world where we are so busy only looking outward.  To be able to deal with all of today's issues, we need to give students tools to be able to look inward and manage their personal feelings and issues.

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Pretty easy to get solely focused on our topic and forget to build in time for SEL, especially in a already truncated timetable.

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What noone ever talks about

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SEL lessons that are created for large, general groups of students, as opposed to teachers individually basing lessons around their classes and the difficulties those students are facing.

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Allows students to isolate their feelings and teaches them how to deal with it.

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Allows students to isolate their feelings and teaches them how to deal with it.

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Save lives. My 18 year-old cousin committed suicide last Friday. With SEL in her school, she might still be alive. 

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Save lives. My 18 year-old cousin committed suicide last Friday. With SEL in her school, she might still be alive. 

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I find sometimes students get overloaded with SEL activities and don't want to engage in it anymore

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The make up of the group and relationship with class. How it can be organic and not forced

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Balancing time to teach SEL that is useful and meaningful to students but also have time for content

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Spending to much time on interesting topic and not getting the actually lesson done. Being able to make time with the already shorten time that we have.

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Like the rest of the world, these kids have been through trauma this year. The world as they knew it changed and turned upside down and they may or may not know how to process it. They may not know how to express their feelings or their emotions - this takes a huge toll on their mental health. SEL activities, while they may not be specific to an event or a memory, can be a way for these kids to slowly start to open up and process. I look at SEL activities like peeling an onion, each activity helps to peel away a layer to get to the whole student.

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It's actually fun to do, and helps get to know each other.  I participate right along with my students, so we learn about each other.

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It's actually fun to do, and helps get to know each other.  I participate right along with my students, so we learn about each other.

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Caveat: I like to do my own lessons.

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Being uncomfortable with not being an "expert" on SEL or topics used in SEL...   ;) you don't need to be

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Being uncomfortable with not being an "expert" on SEL or topics used in SEL...   ;) you don't need to be

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SEL was not a thing we were taught when we were going through teacher training. Now we're expected to just "know" how to do it or feel comfortable with doing it when we do not.

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It's about the student and not the content!

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It's about the student and not the content!

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emotional well-being gives a real platform for learning, especially now with the chaos and fear in the world

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emotional well-being gives a real platform for learning, especially now with the chaos and fear in the world

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Limited time, i.e. each class meets two times a week, it's hard to complete lessons with kids at school and at home.

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Limited time, i.e. each class meets two times a week, it's hard to complete lessons with kids at school and at home.

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5 SEL lessons in one day or having to schedule -- time

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Student's social and emotional wellbeing need to be supported before they can truly focus their attention to content.

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Did You Know that SEL Emerged Because of A Black Man? 

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Did You Know that SEL Emerged Because of A Black Man? 

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Our curriculum for SEL is much less effective for our neurodiverse students

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Decreasing time for content.

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It helps us build relationships with students to improve our classrooms, but more importantly it helps students navigate the socially awkward moments that are high school which have been magnified by social distancing and their collective disrupted adolescence.

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Helping teens dealing with emotions they do not know how to handle,

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Providing a safe space for students and teachers to share and connect outside of just content area

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Providing a safe space for students and teachers to share and connect outside of just content area

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We often prioritize learning content, but if students don't have the necessary skills that are required to just be a student, they may never be able to do that.

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We struggle to get students to buy into why it is important. 

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We struggle to get students to buy into why it is important. 

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it provides an opportunity for students to build a relationship with students

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...we have been told that we need to teach our kids social skills. This has always irked me because it insinuates that they lack the capacity to manage themselves in public which is very insulting. On the other hand, SEL could very well be a skill that students actually lack. I can assure you that many adults lack these skills. By introducing and teaching these skills we are providing students a tool they may actually need and utilize in their daily lives.

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Other mandates for how we use our time in the classroom might get in the way. I have to also teach my subject area, manage discipline, communicate with parents, prepare students for testing, and a number of other things along with SEL.

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I believe it gives students a chance to process the world around them. Every students interprets it differently so it can

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If students (and we) don't know how to regulate and manage our emotions, that will hurt their/ our ability to cognitively engage.

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If students (and we) don't know how to regulate and manage our emotions, that will hurt their/ our ability to cognitively engage.

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Kids need to learn how to destress. This is a way to allow them to do that.

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Kids need to learn how to destress. This is a way to allow them to do that.

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Emotional regulation and stress management are tools necessary to be a successful adult in careers and relationships

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Current situation requires that we must address SEL in order for students to be open to learning

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Current situation requires that we must address SEL in order for students to be open to learning

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Our egos, unidentified biases. Not having empathy

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Our egos, unidentified biases. Not having empathy

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Kids don't care what you know until they know how much you care. SEL gives us an opportunity to take a step back and let them know we care

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Kids don't care what you know until they know how much you care. SEL gives us an opportunity to take a step back and let them know we care

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Not all of us were raised in cultures or in homes where sharing emotions was/is a thing that you do, and especially not with people you don't consider exclusively close to you

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Our class content will be more available to students who are more emotionally settled. SEL helps build better learners.

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Teaching students ways to deal with stress and make sure they are taking care of themselves.

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Teachers don't value spending time outside of their content.  But what could be more important than helping kids manage themselves and their relationships.

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Building community in a year without much at all

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Building community in a year without much at all

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Poorly constructed SEL lessons that turn teachers/students off

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Poorly constructed SEL lessons that turn teachers/students off

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Assuming kids will get it on their own. That it's not our responsibility, that our curriculum is too important to skip.

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Our kids need to have the time and space to be human so they can be comfortable and powerful learners

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Our kids need to have the time and space to be human so they can be comfortable and powerful learners

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Bad teaching habits...clinging on to past practices

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Bad teaching habits...clinging on to past practices

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So many of our students are struggling with their mental health. They need to have skills and strategies to help support their mental health. 

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So many of our students are struggling with their mental health. They need to have skills and strategies to help support their mental health. 

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SEL is important because our students (and we) are struggling with emotional health. And our students, especially may not have the tools or the understanding to know how to deal with these emotional issues. Authentic SEL is important always.

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Social and emotional well-being needs to be directly addressed. We can't assume that we can indirectly address it through creating a welcoming and inclusive culture. Students need examples, strategies, modeling. and opportunities to practice and reflect on their practice. It doesn't happen on its own.

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SEL is an equalizer. It lets us know how alike we´ve forgotten we are

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SEL is an equalizer. It lets us know how alike we´ve forgotten we are

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Our kids don't know how to manage relationships, they struggle with self worth/mental health, etc. We cannot rely on families or society to teach this-- we need to explicitly do it!

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It can be really useful to some of our students. I think it is particularly good for our neurotypical students.