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Social and Emotional Learning
SEL (Social Emotional Learning) is an integral part of human development. SEL is the process that helps people develop healthy identities, manage emotions, feel empathy for others, maintain supportive relationships with friends or family members as well as make responsible decisions.
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Social emotional learning encompasses everything from goal setting to stress management, which provides both children and adults with tools they can use to express themselves authentically and appropriately.
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A better understanding of social emotional learning leads students to acquire techniques for processing and managing emotions as well as essential social skills. It teaches students how to be more socially and emotionally aware. Social emotional learning is critical for building healthy relationships, communicating effectively, and living a meaningful life.
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Imagine learning environments where the teachers are actively in tune with each student’s verbal and non-verbal cues, where children support their peers’ desire to learn, where families can better relate to the academic challenges their children face, and where tension is removed so that deeper learning can take place. Empowered Minds SEL and Character Development program can make this a reality – whatever the learning environment.
The Collaborative for Social Emotional Learning, known as CASEL, is the leading organization advancing the promotion of integrated academic, social, and emotional learning for all children in preschool through high school. Empowered Minds uses the 5 core competencies below to guide their weekly lessons. Students explore each area in both guided discussion and independent activities.
Self-Awareness
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Understanding your emotions and thoughts and how they influence your behavior.
Skills include: identifying emotions, self-perception, recognizing strengths, self-confidence, and self-efficacy.
Self-efficacy is the belief in your ability to succeed in specific situations or accomplishment of a task.
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Self-Management
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The ability to regulate your emotions and behaviors in different situations and to set and work toward goals.
Skills include: executive function and self-regulation, stress-management, and self-discipline.
Executive function and self-regulation are the mental processes that enable us to plan, focus attention, remember instructions, and juggle multiple tasks successfully. Our brains need this skill set to filter distractions, prioritize tasks, set and achieve goals, and control impulses.
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Responsible Decision-Making
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The ability to make positive choices and take responsibility for positive and negative outcomes.
Skills include: identifying problems, analyzing situations, solving problems, and reflection.
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Social Awareness
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The ability to take the perspective of and empathize with others.
Skills include: empathy, appreciating differences, and respect.
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Relationship Skills
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The ability to establish and maintain healthy and meaningful relationships with others.
Skills include: communicating clearly, listening, cooperation, resisting negative pressure, resolving conflicts, and supporting one another.