1.3 Social and Emotional Learning: Basic Choices

5. Our Lenses

Social and emotional education includes coordinated efforts to teach children self-awareness, social cognition, the ability to make responsible decisions, self-management, and relationship management skills.  It is closely  related to the improvement of academic results and, together with the teaching methodology and the quality of school management, is one of the three key factors determining the success of a school.

Pillars in this process are then:

Providing opportunities for learning and fostering social and emotional skills 

It has  multiple benefits for actual and future life of children and their life contexts. The dialogue between personal aspects with social aspects emerge as crucial in thinking about training program that aim to foster a positive development.

Becoming more skilled in making good decision assumes a preventive meaning

It shows its relevance both in personal and social dimensions of actual and future life. Children should in fact be offered opportunities for learning skills that allow them to process the present with a glance to the future in a co-construction effort that joint schools as well as families.