Social awareness is an essential SEL competency for students to grasp to ensure they can flourish in any situation they are placed within.
Relationship skills are a fundamental feature of social emotional learning and Heroes Programs. By implementing these practices in the classroom, you can provide conflict management strategies and strengthen students bonds.
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Responsible decision making is the process of navigating social situations by leveraging caring and constructive choices. This is a core competency of social emotion learning (SEL), and a critical learning for the positive development of youth.
Self-management is one of the 5 core social-emotional learning competencies that help guide students' thoughts, feelings, and behaviours. Implementing SEL programs is proven to enhance students' mental health, classroom atmosphere, teacher practices, and ability to succeed.
The Canadian education system, although at its core aims to help youth flourish, does not have the proper social-emotional programming in place to provide students with the tools they need to do so. Heroes is the key to changing this narrative.
Self-awareness is a fundamental pillar that upholds social-emotional learning. The implementation of SEL programs is proven to enhance students' mental health, classroom atmosphere, teacher practices, and ability to succeed.
Trauma Informed Care takes an approach that assumes past trauma in an individual by creating an environment that is empathetic, safe, and avoids re-traumatization. It is a method that understands the symptoms of trauma and integrates techniques to create a smooth recovery in potentially triggering circumstances.
What is SEL? And why is it critical for our youth to be building their social-emotional learning skills?