For Educators: Integrating SEL in Your Classroom

Before you teach students about social emotional learning or integrate social emotional concepts into your curriculum, teaching philosophy, or classroom culture, you have to first know about your student's cultural context. A student's family, cultural, and neighborhood context informs how they feel about various stimuli and how they act out their feelings. Knowing as much as you can about a student's background makes it so much easier to help them connect with their emotions.

In this lecture, Prof. Bennefield will explain the different parts of the brain, and how integrating those parts is critical to social emotional learning.

In this lecture, Prof. Bennefield will go through three examples of student "problematic" student behavior that can be attributed to a lack of cognitive capacity.

In this short video, Prof. Bennefield will connect the importance of knowing your students' backgrounds and their cognitive capacity to social emotional learning

In this video, we will discuss how to recognize and integrate concepts of psychological well being (e.g. self-acceptance, kindness, gratitude etc.) into our classrooms. Examples provided.

In this lecture, we will discuss strategies for integrating social emotional learning into teaching for kindergarten and elementary learners.

In this lecture, Prof. Bennefield will go through 2 lesson plans: 1 math lesson for early learners and 1 math lesson plan with social emotional learning for early learners. We will discuss how to choose a social emotional concept, integrate it into the teaching script, and introduce social emotional assessments after teaching.

In this lecture, Prof. Bennefield will cover the unique traits of pre- and early adolescence as well as cover two age appropriate social emotional strategies for the classroom: 1) incorporating feelings into the classroom and 2) building a community culture in the classroom

In this lecture, Prof. Bennefield will continue to cover social emotional strategies for middle school learners. We will discuss: goal setting, inserting joy into the conversation, and embracing failure.

In this lecture, Prof. Bennefield will go through 2 lesson plans: 1 math lesson for early learners and 1 math lesson plan with social emotional learning for middle school learners. We will discuss how to choose a social emotional concept, integrate it into the teaching script, and introduce social emotional assessments after teaching.

In this lecture, Prof. Bennefield will discuss the unique neurobiological traits of adolescents and age appropriate social emotional activities. Self-awareness, physical activity, grounding and breathing techniques are covered.

In this lecture, Prof. Bennefield continues to discuss easy to apply social emotional strategies for high school students. Journaling assignments, student-teacher collaboration, and intellectual independence are covered.

In this lecture, Prof. Bennefield will compare a high school lesson plan with and without social emotional learning.

In this lecture, Prof. Bennefield will discuss additions to classroom environments that enhance social emotional learning.

In this lecture, we will discuss different types of teaching philosophies and different types of teaching styles and how these inform our ability to introduce social emotional learning in our classrooms.

In this video, Prof. Bennefield will wrap up the course and discuss easy practices that can be incorporated into every teachers' social emotional learning toolkit.