Social and Emotional Learning

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Social and Emotional Learning

• A Foundation for Vocational Training and Success

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Social Emotional Learning (SEL)

• An educational process intended to develop
  emotional intelligence

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Social Emotional Competencies

• Self-awareness
• Self-management
• Social awareness
• Relationship skills
• Responsible decision making
• From the Collaborative for Academic, Social and
  Emotional Learning (CASEL)

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• SEL skills are essential to academic, personal,
  social and civic success.

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Social and Emotional Learning Improves Student
Outcomes

• Meta-analysis of 213 SEL and related
  interventions
• Students and staff showed increased social and
  emotional competence.

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Seattle Social Development Project

• SEL interventions in elementary school classrooms
  resulted in long term gains ______________________
  ______
• Longitudinal study
• Began 1981
• 808 elementary school children
• Comprehensive SEL intervention from 1st thru 6th
  grade

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Employability

• SEL builds
• Communication skills
• Cooperative team members
• Strong leaders
• Caring community members

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WANTED

• Big company seeks emotionally intelligent
  individuals to contribute to team effort and to
  be strong leaders in the business world.
  Possibility for growth. Good salary. Full
  benefits.

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Applying what we know

• At Cascades Job Corps Center
• 10 week group
• SEL, character development and leadership
  materials
• Mostly experiential

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Group Curriculum

• Weeks 1-5
• Emotional awareness and expression
• Emotional awareness and regulation
• Emotion regulation and impact on decision making
• Gratitude
• Physical self-awareness

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Group Curriculum

• Weeks 6-10
• Physical self-awareness
• Values
• Decision making and group dynamics
• Empathy
• Review of topics and group discussion

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Using SEL concepts with staff

• Staff Training
• Help staff develop core competencies
• ----
• Teach staff why emotional intelligence is
  important in the workplace
• ----
• Identify ways staff can help students develop
  core competencies as employability skills

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Using SEL concepts with staff

• Staff Assessment
• Center Director and CMHC asked management level
  staff to complete Bar-On EQi
• ----
• Areas for further training were identified

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Resources for learning about and applying SEL at
Job Corps

• Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional
  Learning (CASEL)
• School Connect
• Greater Good Science Center
• Communities for Children
• Mindsight Institute
• Edutopia

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Bibliography

• Ciarrochi, Joseph, Forgas, Joseph P., and Mayer,
  John D. (Eds.). (2006). Emotional Intelligence in
  Everyday Life (2nd ed.). New York Psychology
  Press.
• DeAngelis, Tori (2010, April). Social Awareness
  Emotional SkillsSuccessful Kids. Monitor on
  Psychology, 46-49.
• Project EXSEL Excellence in Social and Emotional
  Learning in the City of New York 
  http//pd.lit.columbia.edu/projects/exsel/index.ht
  ml
• The Collaborative for Academic, Social, and
  Emotional Learning http//www.casel.org/SEL.htm