SEL Activitied
Welcome to our Social Emotional Learning Activities page. Below you will find resources- reflection questions and activities as well as a calendar version of activities- in the following skill areas: Self Awareness, Self Management, Social Awareness, Relationship Skills, Responsible Decision Making, and Motivation.
Resources are organized by age level- elementary, middle, and high school students or adults. These activities are typically used in a classroom or at home. All materials required for the activities are items that you already have in your classroom or office.
Social Emotional Learning
Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) is the process of developing emotional intelligence skills that are crucial for success in daily life. Development of SEL skills has been shown to increase academic, emotional,social, and career success.
According to the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL), Social Emotional Learning is “the process through which children and adults understand and manage emotions, set and achieve positive goals, feel and show empathy for others, establish and maintain positive relationships, and make responsible decisions.”
Here at STRUT, our tools are fully aligned with CASEL’S core competencies and we add a 6th–motivation –which is critical for success!
- Self-Awareness: the ability to identify and assess your thoughts, feelings, and values, as well as how they intersect with your behaviors
- Self-Management: the ability to not only identify but regulate emotions, thoughts, and actions
- Social Awareness: the ability to take the perspective of and empathize with others, as well as learning social and ethical behavior
- Relationship Skills: the ability to get along and make meaningful connections with people in their life
- Responsible Decision Making: the ability to make positive, constructive choices about your behavior
- Motivation: the general desire or willingness of someone to do something
Suggestions on how to use:
- Begin by taking our FREE EQ Assessment. SELDA (Social-Emotional Learning Diagnostic Assessment) is the first all-encompassing and most-sensitive digital diagnostic emotional intelligence (EQ) assessment, built exclusively by STRUT with you in mind.
- By way of assessing 18 different, yet equally important, and interconnected social-emotional skill areas, you can confidently evaluate your EQ for daily self-improvement and personal growth. At the end of the assessment, you will be presented with a snapshot of your EQ which you can use to reflect upon.
- Reflect upon your EQ by working through these SEL activities. There are questions and activities for each Core Competency.
- Each Core Competency is broken up into age groups: 3rd-5th, 6th-8th, and 9th-Adult.
- Activities can be completed Digitally and Non Digitally. Remote learning does not mean that everything has to be learned digitally. However, all non-digital activities can also be completed digitally. For example, for activities that say “write,” students can also share with their peers during breakout sessions on zoom or record video logs which they can share or keep for themselves.
- For Digital Activities: Use GoogleDoc, Blogger, Padlet, Google Slides, or Flipgrid to complete activities. Teachers can also use Zoom, Google Classroom, or Skype to interact with their students.
- For Non-Digital Activities: Use paper and pencil, crayons, or markers to complete activities.
