Teaching Social and Emotional Learning

This course provides busy educators with practical, easy-to-use strategies to help students develop the social and emotional skills that will allow them to engage positively with one another, with their teachers and with their learning. Research shows that SEL not only improves achievement by an average of 11 percentile points, but it also increases prosocial behaviors (such as kindness, sharing, and empathy), improves student attitudes toward school, and reduces depression and stress among students. This course is designed to directly deal with the practical way of including SEL into the curriculum.  A student who has excellent academic skills but poor social skills or problem solving skills is at risk of not being successful. 

The goal of this course is to give educators the skills to help students develop essential skills for the classroom and beyond.  It will include strategies for:

• Building students' sense of identity and confidence in their ability to learn, overcome challenges, and influence the world around them.
• Helping students identify, describe, and regulate their emotional responses.
• Promoting the cognitive regulation skills critical to decision making and problem solving.
• Fostering students' social skills, including teamwork and sharing, and their ability to establish and repair relationships.
• Equipping students to become informed and involved citizens.

Madonna University EDU 5830.51 • Mercy University EDUT 557 • Carlow University ED 604

The required text for this course is All Learning Is Social and Emotional by Nancy Frey. ISBN 978-1416627074.