Wondering/Inquiry Focus: In what ways can I develop a learning environment that provides social

emotional support for students who are lacking self-motivation?

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About the Author Amy L. Eva
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(n.d.). How to Take SEL to
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Key quotes and ideas related to Ideas for taking
your wondering action in your
current
classroom/how
this explicitly
impacts your
inquiry work
“The promotion of social, This is not an idea
that will come and
emotional, and academic
go and as a teacher I
learning is not a shifting need to recognize
educational fad; it is the that every day in the
substance of education classroom I have the
chance to enrich
itself,” the report says. both the students
capabilities as a
learner and as a
human so that they
have the foundation
to become a well
rounded person.

“Students today are We can no longer

dismiss the feelings
Tate, E. (2019, May 07). Why
distracted, they’re under a lot of students simply
Social-Emotional Learning Is of pressure and because they are
Suddenly in the Spotlight - they’re suffering from mental children or that they
EdSurge News. Retrieved health issues more than ever will grow out of it.
October 16, 2020, from We need to tend to
https://www.edsurge.com/ne before.” the mental health of
ws/2019-05-07-why-social- our students
emotional-learning-is- because iur
suddenly-in-the-spotlight responsibility as the
teacher is to care for
all aspects of the
childs life and not
just the academics. If
Wondering/Inquiry Focus: In what ways can I develop a learning environment that provides social
emotional support for students who are lacking self-motivation?
Weissberg, R. (2016, February 15).
Why Social and Emotional
Learning Is Essential for
Students. Retrieved October
16, 2020, from
https://www.edutopia.org/blo
g/why-sel-essential-for-
students-weissberg-durlak-
domitrovich-gullotta
we do not begin to
address their needs,
the student may
never get the proper
attention to benefit
them all around.
“Social and emotional Generally speaking,
in my opinion, the
learning (SEL) safest and most
provides a foundation positive place a
for safe and positive student can thrive is
a classroom that can
learning, and create and maintain
enhances students' that atmosphere. I
recall as a student
ability to succeed in that the atmosphere
school, careers, and of elementary school
life.” was focused on drill
and practice. Very
rarely were there
real opportunities to
address how you
were really feeling.
Teachers were more
of the disciplinarian
and less of a coach.
We are in need of
teachers that can
coach students
through situations
and teach them skills
that will allow them
to grow.