In this groundbreaking book, nationally recognized leaders in education and psychology examine the relationships between social-emotional education and school success—specifically focusing on interventions that enhance student learning. Offering scientific evidence and practical examples, this volume points out the many benefits of social emotional learning programs, including: building skills linked to cognitive development, encouraging student focus and motivation, improving relationships between students and teachers, creating school-family partnerships to help students achieve, and increasing student confidence and success.
In this groundbreaking book, nationally recognized leaders in education and psychology examine the relationships between social emotional education and school success—specifically focusing on interventions that enhance student learning.
This comprehensive guide to emotional intelligence (EI) is a state-of-the-art collection of proven best practices from the field's best and brightest minds.
The burgeoning multidisciplinary field of social and emotional learning (SEL) now has a comprehensive and definitive handbook covering all aspects of research, practice, and policy.
When teachers prepare students to work through the disagreements that naturally occur in team situations, cooperative learning promotes sharing of ideas and resources, creativity, and a sense of shared purpose (Johnson and Johnson 1994) ...
Assessing Students' Social, Emotional, and Character Development Maurice J. Elias, Joseph J. Ferrito, ... Arnold Transforming School Leadership and Management to Support Student Learning and Development: The Field Guide to Comer Schools ...
Johnston (2004) notes, “Teachers' comments can offer them, and nudge them toward, productive identities” (p. 23). We can also negatively impact a child's identity, even unintentionally. A 1st grade teacher we observed was demonstrating ...
All stakeholders—from those who work in a school or district to families or other community leaders—will gain a better understanding of SEL and what it looks like in practice through this book.
His other books include Emotionally Intelligent Parenting: How to Raise a Self-Disciplined, Responsible, and Socially Skilled Child (in its third printing from Harmony/Random House), Engaging the Resistant Child Through Computers: A ...
In this practical manual, the authors demonstrate the important relationship between social emotional and ethical education and school safety. They combine traditional crisis management and emergency planning with all of...
Yet, to achieve these broad goals, questions persist as to which life skills are important, who needs to learn them, how they can be taught, and how they are best measured. This book addresses these questions.