SEL – Social Emotional Learning

Bubble Bounce
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEuFi9PxKuo
How Are You Feeling?
Why are we here?
• To learn more about SEL. What it means and why it is important.
• To learn about some of the SEL programs.
• To practice some of the skills that SEL provides to children so that we can
help our students grow socially, emotionally and academically.
Let’s play a game!
Each person will go around stating their name and 3 facts
about themselves. When you go you must repeat at least
one fact that the person directly before you said and then
add in your name and 3 facts about yourself.
What is SEL ?
• Social and emotional learning (SEL) is the process through which children
and adults acquire and effectively apply the knowledge, attitudes, and
skills necessary to understand and manage emotions, set and achieve
positive goals, feel and show empathy for others, establish and maintain
positive relationships, and make.
• Social and emotional learning (SEL) provides a foundation for safe and
positive learning, and enhances students' ability to succeed in school,
careers, and life.
Why is SEL important for our students?
- Improves school and class climate
- Increases student motivation
- Teaches problem-solving skills
- Reduces behavior problems
- Helps students set and meet goals
- Gives a space to talk about mental health
- Teaches study skills and habits
- Encourages empathy
- Teaches teamwork and collaboration
- Improves academic performance
- Improves self-regulation skills
- Teaches responsible decision-making
- Increases personal self-awareness
- Encourages perseverance and resilience
- Improves confidence
- Improves relationship skills
- Improves attendance
- Teaches coping skills
- Creates a feeling of community
SEL Curriculum – Second Step
 Skills for Learning
Focus Attention Listen Be Assertive Use Self-Talk

-Concentrate -Focus on the speaker -Face the person you’re -”Focus”

talking to
-Use eyes, ears and -Wait your turn to speak -”Ignore
brain -Keep your head up and Distractions”
-Ignore distractions -Remember what you shoulders back
Hear -”What do I do
-Use a calm firm voice next?”
-Think of questions
-Use respectful words -”Calm Down”
Empathy and Compassion!
• Empathy is feeling or understanding what
someone else is feeling.
• Clues in faces, bodies, and situations help
you notice and understand how people are
feeling.
• Understanding that people can have different
feelings in similar situations, and that these
feelings can change, helps students develop
empathy and perspective taking.
• When you have empathy for someone, you
can show your care and concern by saying
something kind or doing something to help.
• Showing care and concern is called showing
compassion.
• Empathy helps students perceive and
understand what others are feeling. It also
motivates students to show compassion by
using caring words and actions with others.
• This helps peers feel less isolated, provides
emotional support to peers in difficult
circumstances, and strengthens friendships.
Emotion Management
• When you feel strong feelings, it’s
hard to think clearly.
• Focusing attention on your body gives
you clues about how you’re feeling.
• Thinking about your feelings helps the
thinking part of your brain get back in
control.
• Emotion and language are processed
in different parts of the brain.
Language use helps engage the
thinking part of the brain.
• Simply naming a feeling can help
decrease the intensity of the feeling,
which can be useful to children when
they are upset or overwhelmed by a
strong emotion.
• A stop signal is a way students can
use language to halt the escalation of
emotions when they are upset so they
can use the rest of
CALMING DOWN IS IMPORTANT!
- Children need to learn skills to manage their emotions in a healthy way.

- It's important for children to identify and utilize coping skills that can help them face their
fears, calm themselves down, and cheer themselves up.

- Coping skills increase resilience because they help people learn how to properly
handle uncomfortable emotions and difficult situations.

- When you effectively deal with an uncomfortable emotion or situation, you also move
on and let go of the uncomfortable feelings that are associated with that experience.
- Calm downing helps children to practice identifying feelings and emotions to better
manage stress, self-regulate, control their impulses and stay focused on school and
other important tasks.
Calm Down Strategies (Safe and Positive)

- Belly Breathing
- Counting Slowly
- Positive Self-Talk
- Thinking happy/Positive thoughts
- Squeezing a stress ball
- Talking it out with a safe and trusted adult
- Listening to calming music
- Reading
- Doing something you enjoy
- Exercise
- Journaling feelings
- Drawing
- Guided Imagery
- Progressive Muscle Relaxation
Problem Solving
• Calming down helps you think so you can solve problems.
• Following steps can help you solve problems.
• Saying the problem without blame is respectful.
• Students who are more skilled problem solvers get along better with peers and have fewer
conflicts and problems with aggression.
• Students can escalate conflicts by failing to consider the situation from the other person’s
perspective.
• The perspective-taking skills learned earlier are an important part of the first of the
Problem-Solving Steps, S: Say the problem.
• It is important for students to see a problem in a neutral way that does not blame the other
person. problem without blame is respectful.
 Problem Solving Continued…
• Following steps can help
you solve problems.
• Solutions to problems must
be safe and respectful.
• Once they’ve calmed down and stated the problem
without blaming, students are ready for the next
three Problem-Solving Steps.
• The second step, T: Think of solutions, builds
cognitive skills and helps students avoid jumping at
the first idea that comes to them, thus preventing
hasty and possibly more aggressive responses.
• Emphasizing the importance of safe and respectful
solutions builds prosocial norms and helps students
employ perspective taking to think about the effects
of their actions on others.
• The third step, E: Explore consequences, helps
students think through cause and effect and avoid
solutions that will cause more problems.
• The fourth step, P: Pick the best solution, is when
whoever is involved in the problem comes to a safe
and respectful agreement.
Rainbow Breathing
https://youtu.be/O29e4rRMrV4
Take a moment to show yourself some kindness by using some positive self-talk!
Self Care Plan
Wrap Up
• What did we learn today?
• What was our favorite skill we learned today?
• How can we continue to implement SEL strategies for our students?
• Any questions or comments?
• Thank you for coming!