Misconceptions about Social-Emotional Learning

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What is SEL?

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It teaches you how to identify and understand the many ways you might think and feel

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How can Social-Emotional Learning benefit students?

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Social-emotional learning teaches kids about feelings and other skills.

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True

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TRUE: Emotional intelligence (the ability to be smart about feelings) is only one of the many parts of SEL.

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True or False? :
Many educators believe social-emotional skills aren't as important as "hard skills".

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True

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TRUE: Unfortunately, some educators DO not believe SEL skills are as important.

SEL skills are often referred to as "soft skills", but they're just as important as "hard skills".

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Do kids learn social-emotional skills automatically?

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False

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FALSE: People aren't born knowing how to manage emotions, get along with others, and solve problems.

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There's more than one way to teach SEL.

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True

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TRUE: Teachers can use what they know about their students to design SEL lessons in which all students can fully access and apply these skills

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True or False? :
SEL is for ALL kids.

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True

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TRUE: SEL helps parents and teachers understand that all behavior is communicating something

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Misbehavior should result in natural consequences which give students a true opportunity for learning.

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True

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TRUE: Rewards and consequences will not teach on their own. Students need caring adults to explain the interpersonal consequences of social mistakes.

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True or False? :
Social-emotional learning can be measured.

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False

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FALSE: While evidence should inform a great deal of what we do, we can't count on all evidence to be quantitatively measured.

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