1. A child’s deficiencies in social-emotional
competencies adversely affect his performance in
school
Social-Emotional Learning
2. Awareness of
Self & Others
• Awareness &
management of
feelings
• Constructive sense of
self
• Perspective-taking
Positive
Attitudes &
Values
• Personal
responsibility
• Respect for others
• Social responsibility
Responsible
Decision-making
• Problem-identification
• Social-norm analysis
• Adaptive goal-setting
• Problem-solving
Social
Interaction Skills
• Expressive
communication
• Cooperation
• Negotiation
• Help-seeking
• Refusal
SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL
LEARNING
COMPETENCIES
Adapted from:
http://www.casel.org/downloads/Safe%20and%20Sound/3B_SEL_Framework.pdf
3. SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL
LEARNING
Problem
• Student is lethargic and listless in class
Theory
• Responsible decision-making
• Unable to identify problem situations
unable to make responsible and helpful
decisions.
4. SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL
LEARNING
Problem
• Student does not perform well academically in
school
Theory
• Awareness of self
• Unable to recognize his strengths and
weaknesses
• Responsible decision-making
• Unable to act on his strengths and
weaknesses
• Unable to solve problems
• Did not practise adaptive goal-setting
• Does not seek help
5. SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL
LEARNING
Problem
• Student is ostracized by friends in school
Theory
• Social interaction skills
• Did not expressively communicate his
opinions and feelings to his peers
• Unable to issue refusals
Our mission is to establish social and emotional learning (SEL) as an essential part of education. We envision a world where families, schools, and communities work together to promote children's success in school and life and to support the healthy development of all children.
Current Priorities
This is a time of exciting change for the SEL field. In the past two decades, through scientific research CASEL and our collaborators have demonstrated the effectiveness of evidence-based SEL programming and its positive effects on young people and schools. Now we are working to take SEL to scale in schools across the country in a national SEL initiative.