Navigate the complex field of social and emotional learning. We provide information and tools that summarize and connect the major frameworks and skills in the field to support transparency and informed decision-making. What is SEL? Social and emotional learning (SEL) has often been used as an umbrella term to represent a wide array of non-academic skills that individuals need in order to set goals, manage behavior, build relationships, and process and remember information. These skills and competencies develop across our lives and are essential to success in school, work, home, and community. Generally speaking, this set of skills can be organized into three interrelated areas: cognitive, social, and emotional. Importantly, these skills and competencies develop and are in dynamic interaction with attitudes, beliefs, and mindsets as well as character and values, all of which are fundamentally tied to characteristics of settings.
Type of Material:
Reference Material
Recommended Uses:
The material can be used in segments for in class activities, or homework. Both alternatives will fit in a course development.
An instructor can decide either to assign segments individually or in groups.
In general, the material can be easily adapted to any circumstance the instructor decides.
Technical Requirements:
Website usable in multiple browers. Due to the nature and capabilities of the site, viewing on a larger screen would be preferable to a handheld device.
Identify Major Learning Goals:
to provide users with different frameworks that address social emotional learning.
to identify the different domains that SEL encompasses
to guide the user in selecting the framework that might suit their needs.
Target Student Population:
College Upper Division, Graduate School, Professional
Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills:
This tool is specialized for those who already have some foundational understanding of SEL as a field and paradigm. It allows users to dig deeper and make higher level connections between various frameworks within this field.
Content Quality
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Strengths:
The material offers users with a plethora of frameworks on SEL. The content per each framework has been designed into mindmaps. In this way, users can easily pick the main To access this material, users do not need any previous knowledge. The material is easy to grasp, very current, and often updated.
Potential Effectiveness as a Teaching Tool
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Strengths:
The material can be used to introduce participants into the concepts of Social Emotional Learning. Users need to be open minded about the different frameworks. Faculty and students will develop a more mindful concept of SEL. The content of this material can be integrated in a sociology, psychology, or any other humanistic subject. It can even be used in an economics class, and science as well.
Forum discussions, essays, class discussions, or problem solving activities can be easily assigned for any course a faculty is interested to conduct.
The teaching and learning goals are not clearly stated but users can easily figure them out.
For those who already have some foundational knowledge on this topic and would like to find connections between frameworks and explore myriad possibilities, this tool allows unending exploration and possibilities. It would be especially helpful for researchers writing scholarly papers, writing curriculum for SEL programs, or creating policies for entitities such as K-12 schools and other programs.
Ease of Use for Both Students and Faculty
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Strengths:
Users can easily browse the frameworks and return to the main menu by clicking on a tab under the name of "frameworks"
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