Grow Emotional & Soft Skills Emotional skills are required for school and life success. While some emotions are hard-wired from birth, other key emotional responses must be taught. Students who lack a full range of emotional and soft skills often struggle at school. Educators who understand the complexities of emotional skill development will be able to provide specific emotional and soft skills instruction for learners who exhibit a more narrow range of appropriate emotional responses to the socially-complex school environment.
You’re reading this article, which means you have the ability to focus, store, and manipulate visual information; work toward a goal; create mental images; analyze; and more. These foundational skills
Demand for curricula that teach social and emotional skills is soaring, as schools increasingly come to see those skills as something teachers should be teaching.
Trauma-informed SEL is an approach to fostering youths’ social-emotional development with practices that support all students, but is particularly inclusive and responsive to the needs of children and youth who
Occupational therapists and trauma-informed teachers weigh in on how to create sensory tools and spaces with what you have at home.
This round-up of teachers reaching out to their distant students makes it more clear than ever that relationships are always at the heart of teaching.
An elementary teacher who has worked for an edtech start-up argues that it’s important now—with teachers and students working separately—to promote reflection and social connection as tools for learning.
I’ll never forget the day when a red rubber bracelet was my most important accessory. After beginning our regular morning routine, I was confronted by an angry colleague in my
Many teachers talk about loving their students. In fact, I have made bold announcements to everyone—from my colleagues to my friends and family—about loving my students every year that I
In times of collective trauma, such as the global pandemic the world is currently experiencing, many students will exhibit symptoms of chronic stress—misdirected anger, a lack of confidence, and disengagement
So, how do we respond to conflict and misbehavior? If we opt for traditional punishment, we’re likely to see little to no behavioral change in children. That’s because in most
