New Environment, New Friends: How Social and Emotional Learning Can Help
Whether you’re starting at a new university or a new job, making friends can be an exciting but daunting task. As nerve wracking as it may be, forming positive relationships with peers is crucial for our well-being.
Promoting SEL in Schools to Support Student Success
Many of our other blog posts detail the core competencies of SEL, which can be encouraged across different areas of a child’s life. This post will be focusing on supporting these skills in a key environment for children: school!
Distinguishing Shame from Guilt: Implications and Limitations
It is easy for people to confuse shame and guilt as the two emotions share many common features and are often experienced simultaneously. Both shame and guilt require a mental representation of the self to be compared with a set of rules and standards internalized from family and culture, and both are linked to the capacity for moral reasoning and behavior.
How Do Early Childhood Experiences Affect Your Social Life?
As a part of society, we inevitably interact with other people on a daily basis. It is also natural for us, as human beings, to look for support, comfort, care, and a sense of belonging in our relationships with others. How would you describe your attachment style?
Promoting Gender Equality with SEL
By giving children the opportunity to think about the social nature of gender and its implications in their own lives, we are encouraging them to move towards more thoughtful and meaningful personal relationships.
Engaging with Climate Change: How SEL Can Help Us Take Action
Fortunately, Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) shows us a useful way to help us better accept climate change and take climate action!
Speaking with Purpose: Mastering Public Speaking Skills
Being a passionate speaker means believing in the message you are conveying. With this, I welcome you to think about what valuable message do you want to share with your audience?
Helping each other amidst the COVID-19 pandemic: What is peer support?
Almost two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, we have all been experiencing difficulties, whether small or big, in one way or another. Still, the good news is that we can all lessen these difficulties and even experience other benefits from helping each other.
The lingering effect of COVID-19 on our Education Systems
So, what key lessons about our education systems have we learned from the coronavirus crisis?
As we enter the recovery phase of COVID-19, it would be critical to reflect on the role of education systems–especially about the value offered by a university education.