In Essentials of Social Emotional Learning (SEL): The Complete Guide for Schools and Practitioners, learning expert and advocate Donna Black delivers a rigorous and compelling case for the adoption of crucial SEL components in your school, as well as a step-by-step guide to its implementation.
The book walks readers through every step of understanding, designing, implementing, and measuring an SEL program designed to create lasting and powerful change for your students. The author describes strategies to engage students with relationships and instruct them in core skills.
Essentials of Social Emotional Learning (SEL) also explores:
- The emergence of social emotional learning as a world phenomenon, including key definitions, critical areas of competence, historical influences, and the role of emotional intelligence in SEL.
- A rigorous review of current problems in education addressed by SEL, as well as the latest empirical support and validation for the model.
- A description of SEL as a sustainable framework for success, including a multi-phase guide to a whole-school implementation of SEL complete with tools, templates, and checklists.
Table of Contents
Preface ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction xiii
About the Companion Website xv
Section I Emergence of Social Emotional Learning (SEL) as a World Phenomenon 1
One Defining Social Emotional Learning (SEL) and the Critical Areas of Competence 3
Two Historical Influences on the Emergence of SEL 29
Three Emotional Intelligence and its Role in SEL 57
Section II SEL - The Missing Link in Education 83
Four Current Challenges in Education 85
Five Evidenced Support for SEL 125
Six Making the Case for SEL 159
Section III SEL as a Sustainable Framework for Success 213
Seven Getting Started: A Multiphase Approach to Whole-School Implementation of SEL 215
Eight Tools, Templates, and Checklists 267
Nine Aligning SEL Assessment With Instruction and Curriculum 335
Ten SEL: A Roadmap for a World at Hope 383
Index 407
