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Dan Liston, Randy Testa, Ben Kirshner, and Emily Claire Price

Social and emotional learning, or SEL, programs have flourished in schools during the last decade. These programs vary widely but most share a concern for five individual, student competencies: self awareness; self-management; social awareness; relationship skills; and finally responsible decision making. It is important for teachers and parents to know about and understand these programs. While lots of SEL programs emphasize K-12 student social and emotional learning, only a very few programs exist to promote, and help teachers explore their own emotional well-being. In this Specialization our central premise is this:

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Social and emotional learning, or SEL, programs have flourished in schools during the last decade. These programs vary widely but most share a concern for five individual, student competencies: self awareness; self-management; social awareness; relationship skills; and finally responsible decision making. It is important for teachers and parents to know about and understand these programs. While lots of SEL programs emphasize K-12 student social and emotional learning, only a very few programs exist to promote, and help teachers explore their own emotional well-being. In this Specialization our central premise is this:

To facilitate students’ social and emotional learning, a teacher must know the student as a person. This means that the teacher must strive to know her or him self. In order to help students achieve a degree of well-being, teachers need to be aware of their own well-being.

In our Specialization, “The Teacher and SEL” the instructors (Randy Testa and Dan Liston, as well as Emily Price and Ben Kirshner) examine kindergarten through high school SEL programs, looking at both established programs and less well-known community-based and youth empowerment approaches. Along with this examination of K-12 SEL programs, we bring a much needed emphasis on the teachers’ well being.

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Five courses

The Teacher's Social and Emotional Learning

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Social and emotional learning, or SEL, programs have flourished in schools during the last decade. While this growth has been impressive, inadequate attention has been paid to teachers’ social and emotional learning. In this course, Dan Liston and Randy Testa introduce you to various rationales for why teacher SEL is needed as well as examine and reflect on various emotions in teaching and learning.

SEL for Students: A Path to Social Emotional Well-Being

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Social and emotional learning (SEL) programs have grown in schools over the past decade. This course introduces you to the history and framings of SEL curricula, as well as various elementary, middle, and high school SEL programs and associated research.

Expanding SEL

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Social and emotional learning, or SEL, programs have flourished in schools during the last decade. This course introduces and examines community-based and youth-empowerment approaches to SEL, addressing the impact of social and political systems on children's social and emotional experiences.

Teacher SEL: Programs, Possibilities, and Contexts

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Social and emotional learning (SEL) programs have flourished in schools in the last decade, but teachers' SEL has received inadequate attention. This course introduces and examines distinct and established teacher SEL programs, as well as some alternative possibilities.

SEL Capstone

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This course is a capstone for the Coursera Specialization entitled – “The Teacher and SEL”. The two culminating projects include: “A Teacher Implementation Plan”, and “The Cinema, SEL, and the Classroom”.

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