Enhancing students' emotional and social learning
Research in brief
This document briefly describes the results of a research review aimed at answering the question: Do programs led by teachers and offered to all students in a classroom improve the social and emotional learning of students?
They included studies that emphasized the development of social-emotional learning that targeted students between 5 and 18 years without any identified adjustment or learning problems.
The effectiveness of social and emotional learning programs on student academic achievement, pro-social behaviour, conduct problems, and internalizing behaviours are discussed.
The article describes factors associated with successful outcomes primarily:
- Programs delivered by school personnel vs outside personnel
- Programs that use step-by-step training
- Programs that have active forms of learning and explicit skill instruction
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