Social-Emotional Learning and the Brain: Strategies to Help Your Students Thrive
The author, a former classroom teacher and international educational consultant in social-emotional...
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The author, a former classroom teacher and international educational consultant in social-emotional learning, literacy, vocabulary, and brain research, describes the brain structures and chemicals involved in social-emotional learning and strategies that can activate the brain in the same way. She discusses building teacher-student relationships; different types of empathy, how empathy can be modeled, and strategies for teaching empathy and compassion; teaching and modeling self-awareness and teaching students to recognize and name their own emotions; areas of the brain related to self-management and strategies for teaching self-management skills; teaching social awareness and how to recognize and manage emotions to interact with others in an emotionally intelligent way; teaching relationship skills; helping students identify their values and beliefs for decision making; and promoting the use of social-emotional learning every day for teachers and students, as well as the importance of positive childhood experiences to counterbalance adverse ones. Annotation ©2020 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
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