Emotion in Education: An Interview with Maurice Elias

The director of Rutgers University's Social and Emotional Learning Lab talks about why SEL should be an integral part of academic life.
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[@socint74]

Social emotional learning is of value when genuinely aimed at providing a sound understanding of the advantages for everyone, not just the student, of promoting instincts to develop sympathy and empathy. for others. "Emotional Intelligence" promoters ignore revealing most hard truths about life.and , In particular, promote communication and relationship "life skills" aimed at personal financial gain . For real impact I suggest a few films illustrating world hunger and disease.

[@pawsitivelysocialemotional784]

I so agree with this and love the quilt analogy. I am so passionate about this topic that I dedicated my work to creating an SEL curriculum where students can explicitly learn important SEL skills on a daily basis in the classroom. Good luck New Jersey, I hope you will be an exemplary leader in adopting SEL in our schools.