This Is the Teaching That Prepares Kids for Real Life — and It’s No Longer Optional
April 12, 2018
By: Sheldon Berman
Source: The Hechinger Report
From school safety to budget cuts and federal policy, there are many contentious issues in education. But educators know what students need to be successful: Schools can and must support the whole student, and teaching skills like personal responsibility, teamwork and learning from one’s mistakes enhances students’ mastery of academic content. The question is, how can this be done for each and every student?
Developing students’ social, emotional and academic skills is crucial to fostering students’ growth and enhancing their ability to create, collaborate and contribute to their communities. We know this for two reasons. First, a powerful and growing body of research demonstrates that learning is multidimensional — and the social, emotional and academic dimensions of learning are interconnected in the human brain. Second, schools and districts across the country are already setting in motion strategies that integrate social, emotional and academic development into their work, and they are seeing results.