What is Social Emotional Learning (SEL)?

 

The Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) describes social and emotional learning (SEL) as, "an integral part of education and human development. SEL is the process through which all young people and adults acquire and apply the knowledge, skills, and attitudes to develop healthy identities, manage emotions and achieve personal and collective goals, feel and show empathy for others, establish and maintain supportive relationships, and make responsible and caring decisions.
Additionally, it states, "SEL advances educational equity and excellence through authentic school-family-community partnerships to establish learning environments and experiences that feature trusting and collaborative relationships, rigorous and meaningful curriculum and instruction, and ongoing evaluation."

Questions:

Are you familiar with SEL? How do you integrate SEL into your adult learning content and strategies? What impact has has SEL had with your learners/trainees?

 

 
 

 

Comments

SEL skills are so important to our well being. Emotional intelligence, adaptability & flexibility are included in what the National College Transition Network (NCTN) defines as "personal & workplace success skills".  Use "emotional intelligence" in the keyword search of our new Personal & Workplace Success Skills Library to find resources (like the CASEL SEL Framework) that you can use to foster social emotional learning and awareness in adult learners. SEL resources are typically focused on children and the resources for adults are geared towards parents and teachers of young children - important for sure. But in curating our collection of resources for the Library, we've worked hard to find SEL-related materials geared towards adults as learners and that can be used by adult education teachers, navigators and PD providers.  

Thank you for your response Sandy and sharing Personal & Workplace Success Skills Library: https://skills.worlded.org/

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