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1 Feb 2014
Toolkit

Self-Assessing Social and Emotional Instruction and Competencies: A Tool for Teachers

Nick Yoder

Image of SEL Assessment Guide coverThe educational community is increasingly focused on the development of students’ social and emotional learning (SEL) competencies and the link between SEL and improved educational attainment and achievement. SEL is the process through which students develop the skills necessary to recognize and manage emotions, build relationships, solve interpersonal problems, and make effective and ethical decisions.

The significance of SEL continues to grow in the context of policy debates concerning school improvement and individual student achievement. As a result, educators must understand how best to implement the most effective strategies to promote students’ development of SEL competencies. They must understand, too, how to build and improve their own SEL competencies, because teachers’ social and emotional competencies directly affect how they interact with students on both social and instructional levels.

This self-assessment tool is designed to help educators reflect upon (1) their current teaching practices that impact student SEL, and (2) their own SEL competencies to implement those teaching practices. Essentially, the aims of this tool are as follows:

  • To enable teachers to reflect and self-assess on SEL as an integral part of high-quality teaching and learning
  • To provide a broad measure of the teacher’s ability to promote student SEL through instructional practices
  • To provide a mechanism for teachers to reflect on their own SEL competencies and to consider what impact their capabilities have on the implementation of practices that support SEL
  • To provide teachers with self-reflective feedback that can be used as part of their professional development plans or educator evaluations

In the tool, teachers can self-assess on 10 teaching practices that support social and emotional learning for students, which we identified in our recent brief, Teaching the Whole Child: Instructional Practices That Support Social and Emotional Learning in Three Teacher Evaluation Frameworks.

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Related Work

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Brief

Teaching the Whole Child: Instructional Practices That Support Social-Emotional Learning in Three Teacher Evaluation Frameworks

Although teachers understand the critical importance of social-emotional learning for their students’ overall development, few educator evaluation systems explicitly address that type of learning. This brief identifies the instructional practices that promote student social-emotional learning, which in turn are critical for student academic learning; and showcases how three popular teacher evaluation frameworks embed practices that influence not only student academic learning but also student social and emotional competencies.
Topic: 
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Spotlight

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Social and Emotional Learning: Creating Supportive Learning Environments for All

Recent research has demonstrated that when schools and districts focus on social and emotional learning (SEL), students’ academic achievement, prosocial behaviors, and positive attitudes improve, while their behavior problems and emotional distress decrease. Explore these selected resources, tools, and reports to discover our research and technical assistance on SEL practices.
Topic: 
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Spotlight

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Students working together

Spotlight on Deeper Learning

What do today’s students really need to learn in order to succeed, not only in the classroom but also later on in college, careers, and as engaged citizens? What role can deeper learning—“a set of competencies students must master in order to develop a keen understanding of academic content and apply their knowledge to problems in the classroom and on the job”—play?
Topic: 
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Further Reading

  • The SEL School: Connecting Social and Emotional Learning to Effective Teaching
  • Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) Solutions at AIR
  • Social and Emotional Learning: Creating Supportive Learning Environments for All
  • Social and Emotional Learning Practices: A Self-Reflection Tool for Afterschool Staff
  • Creating Safe, Equitable, Engaging Schools: A Comprehensive, Evidence-Based Approach to Supporting Students
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