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Rebuilding School Culture Through SEL
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Abstract: Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) is getting a lot of attention lately because children and adults are struggling in the areas of emotional and social development, developing and maintaining relationships, especially in the age of technology.
SEL is the process through which children as well as adults understand and manage their emotions, have the ability to set and achieve positive goals, know how to feel and show empathy for others, establish and maintain positive relationships, and make responsible decisions.
Are you a teacher or an administrator struggling on how to incorporate SEL into your classroom? Do you want to help your students develop soft skills that will help them to cooperate with others, develop healthy relationships, and make good decisions?
This workshop is then for you! You will explore the concept of social-emotional learning as well as learn how to incorporate learning activities in your classroom as you seek to help students develop in the main competencies of SEL.
About This Workshop: You will explore the competencies of Social Emotional Learning and strategies/best practices used to implement SEL activities into the classroom.
Takeaways
- Understand the concept of social-emotional learning
- Understand the main competencies of SEL and approaches to teach SEL
- Analyze SEL skill instruction
- Integration of SEL into the curriculum across disciplines such as language arts, math, social studies, etc.
- Learn strategies that will help to build and promote SEL as a school-wide initiative
- Learn and develop SEL skills
- Create a SEL Digital Resource Page
Presenter: Cynthia Sistek-Chandler is a Professor at the Sanford College of Education at National University and the Academic Program Director for the only Master of Arts degree in Social and Emotional Learning. Dr. Sistek-Chandler is the 2022-23, Chair-Elect for the SEL SIG for the American Association of Educational Research (AERA).
Cynthia is dedicated to making SEL happen everywhere in the educational workplace. In 2020, she co-authored and co-designed 10 SEL Playbooks, a no-cost digital resource for educators selplaybook.org, and co-created #SELWeek (March) a free webinar series to support worldwide #SELDay. Join Cynthia on her quest to uncover why and how SEL strategies can help heal the world
