By Mashable SEA, Mashable Southeast Asia, April 22, 2022
Not too long ago, social-emotional learning (SEL) brought people on the left and right together in pursuit of teaching children skills for thriving in the classroom and beyond.
Now it may sound familiar because it's become a flashpoint in the battle over children's education. Social-emotional learning, or SEL, is a process designed to support young students' well-being and academic performance in five key areas: self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship skills, and responsible decision-making.
SEL as a concept began to take off in the mid-1990s, thanks to educators and experts in youth development who believed that schools should fully support all children's social, emotional, and academic growth. Years of research shows high-quality SEL programming leads to positive outcomes for kids, like an improved ability to handle stress, better classroom behavior, and academic gains. It's now widely practiced in the U.S. from preschool through high school, and elsewhere in the world. A McGraw Hill survey of U.S. educators conducted in July 2021 found that more than half of respondents said their school had begun implementing SEL curriculum.
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