The Need for Social and Emotional Learning and Teacher Training During the COVID-19 Pandemic

In the spring of 2020, the rapid spread of COVID-19 caused schools in the U.S. to shift to online education. With the drastic change to online learning, the transition caused many issues that negatively impacted students' and educators' social and emotional learning (SEL) that helped ensure educational productivity. Social and emotional learning includes five competency areas: self-awareness, relationship skills, social awareness, self-management, and responsible decision making. Virtual learning has shifted the attention of educational institutions away from these competency areas due to the limitations of digital classrooms and the prioritization of academic intelligence over emotional intelligence. The chapter provides recommendations to address the social and emotional learning of educators.

The Impact of Social Emotional Learning Skills on Creativity

The purpose of this chapter is to explore how social and emotional learning (SEL) skills impact the ability of students to develop creativity in classrooms. After exploring the significance of creativity and SEL in modern education, the chapter will aim to uncover parallels in the recommended education programs for both sets of skills. Additionally, this chapter will explore which specific set of SEL skills positively support the growth of creativity in children. Furthermore, the ideal classroom environment to simultaneously foster creativity and SEL will be discussed in the chapter. Finally, the teacher's role in a class where SEL and creativity are prioritized will be analyzed to uncover what strategies a teacher can employ in order not to hinder creativity or give rise to stress among the students. After answering these questions, the authors aim to unveil the effects that remote learning during the COVID-19 pandemic has had on the aspects of SEL discussed above.

THE NEEDS OF SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL LEARNING MODULE: A SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE ANALYSIS

Social and emotional learning in world education are very important in human capital development. A person equipped with high social and emotional skills are able to manage daily life challenge, building positive relationship and capable to make rational decisions. Therefore, all these skills can be taught as early as preschool level to tertiary education. In order to achieve social and emotional learning in school, a teaching and learning modules are most needed. Thus, this study aims to investigate and examine the needs of modules based on teacher perspectives and the use of existing module such as PATHS and Second Step. The source for the articles obtained are available online from the Google Scholar, Elsevier, MyCite, and ERIC and the collected data were analyzed thematically. This study found that the social and emotional learning modules were needed to increase pupils’ social and emotional competency, academic improving, problematic behavior changing and as learning instruction resources. Future studies in systematic literature analysis can be conducted by focusing in qualitative method, school administration and parents as respondents and others social and emotional learning modules mentioned in this study.

SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL LEARNING IN CLASSROOMS. COUNSELLING IN SCHOOL TO AVOID CONFLICTS

Heyse & Erpenbeck (2009) define counselling competence very broadly as the ability to counsel people and organisations. This requires for teachers an extensive knowledge of content, social-emotional competence and solution-oriented thinking. In this context, the article focuses on the one hand on the location of the legal basis for teacher training in higher education in the context of counselling competence and how counselling skills can be improved to avoid conflicts in the classroom. On the other hand it describes the handling and use of counselling skills in everyday school life based on the results of focus group discussions within the Erasmus+ project SEEVAL.