MURKOR murkorSocial and Emotional Learning.edited Essays - Education

MURKOR murkorSocial and Emotional Learning.edited Essays - Education Social and Emotional Learning Student Name Institution Affiliation Instructor Name Course Name Course Code Date Social and Emotional Learning Where is the field of social and emotional learning going? What are we trying to emphasize? The concept of Social and emotional learning (SEL) emphasize on the process by which individuals, especially fully grown adults and the younger generations, tame their emotions, prioritize to effectively achieve targets that are positive, accompanying feelings with good deeds towards others and nature good relationship with other individuals. Social and emotional learning promotes competencies among individuals. SEL is important particular ly in this stressful world, in which both the adults and the younger generations have to adapt to the emotional challenges, some of which it's very difficult to be avoided. Thus, Social-emotional learn ing is needed than ever before. SEL emphasis on self-examination, the ability to manage one's emotions, relationship management as well as the ability to make effective decisions . Researches done in the past decades depicts that it is very important for students to balance their academic and social-em otional competencies in order to achieve greater success in careers and life, thus, SEL had been conserve d for only educators . But recently there is shifting, it is no longer reserved for educators rather all researchers, academia, and the public are beginning to better understand that having managed between academics and social and emotional competencies play a critical role in life. Thereof , emphasis on SEL skills will instill effective experiences in learning as well as create a conducive environment that enables the students to achieve better results in schools as well as contribute effectively in both workplaces and to the society . In this case, SEL will ensure a goa l-oriented generation in the future. The widespread of SEL will ensure that socially responsible citizens are produced who are better to build the nation as well as their communities. Though SEL emphasized on development abi lities such a s conscience development, emotional control, open-mindedness and the ability to reason with others is regarded to be very important or even more essential than conscious thoughts in examining employment in futures for effective and efficient results . In spite of those concepts being essential to the students in learning and experience, their implementations prove difficult for the educators. To them, it is very difficult to set effective goals, upskill and examine emotional and social skills . When di d the field start to recognize SEL, who are the top five leading current researchers on this topic? What are the differences between them and what are they focusing on? Li ke a ny other western idea, the root of social-emotional learning is as old as ancient Greece. When Plato wrote about education in The Republic, he proposed that a curriculum that requires a balance between academic , character and moral. But in modern, James Comer began a piloting program in the late 1960s at Yale School of Medicine's Child Center. The program was focusing on two objectives , low achieving and poor performance predominant in African-Ame rican elementary schools in New Haven Connecticut , which had lowest academic achievement and worst attendance in the city. By 1980s the two schools have become the best academic performers to exceed the national average. Up to date , New Have has become a de facto hub in SEL research . SEL. The leading researchers include; Roger Weisberg , Timothy Shriver, Schonert-Reicht Kimberly, Teachers and educators should go through thorough training on how to incorporate social and emotional skills in learning and experiences of the students for better performance both at school and at the workplace ( Weisberg et al. 2015) . It is believed that this approach of incorporating social and emotional skills in the students learning life and experience should not only take place within the school environment but also at the community level, workplace and even at the political context ( Shriver , 2015) . The implementation and enforcement of SEL approaches within the school context rely on the teacher ( Kimberly, 2017 ). Kimberly says that there is a relationship between SEL and the teacher's beliefs as well as their well-being. He added that the success of