Reading, Writing, Respect, and Resolution

Reading, Writing, Respect, and Resolution

For decades, schools have worked to address a range of student behaviors and emotional issues with programs that help students express feelings, manage behavior, and solve arguments, writes Suzanne Bouffard in The New York Times. But do these social and emotional learning (SEL) programs make a difference? The impact from even the best ones appears to be moderate, Bouffard writes. This may be because SEL programs are not used as designed, or adults who implement them do not themselves model the skills. Many teachers struggle to teach SEL because they lack training. In a pilot program funded by the federal Institute for Education Sciences, 33 third-to-fifth-grade teachers in New York City used the 4R's program (Reading, Writing, Respect, and Resolution) developed by the Morningside Center for Teaching Social Responsibility, and received monthly SEL coaching. They learned how to teach the program and to reinforce SEL throughout the school day -- for example, by modeling techniques to calm down and show empathy and by encouraging students to listen to each other and brainstorm "win-win" solutions when arguments arise. Preliminary findings from the project's evaluation suggest benefits for students. Teacher coaching in particular seemed to yield better results for students who then more easily solved conflicts with peers and were rated by teachers as having better social and academic skills. More

Source:  Public Education News Blast

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