Digitally Yours: Interactive and Engaging Strategies to Teach SEL Remotely

Purpose & objective

The purpose of this presentation is to introduce learners to a variety of promising and innovative strategies they can use to model and teach social and emotional learning skills to remote learners. As a result of participation in this session learners will have an understanding of the importance of teaching students SEL skills and be able to identify specific strategies they can use to teach those skills remotely in a way that is meaningful for students.

Outline

Content: Icebreaker Activity
Time: 10 minutes
Process: Device-based activity- Learners will work in teams to complete an escape room aimed at assessing their current knowledge on social and emotional learning. Learners will later learn how to create their own escape rooms and will reflect on how the use of an escape room with their peers encouraged them to utilize interpersonal skills, conflict resolution skills, communication skills, and other vital social and emotional learning skills.

Content: Interactive SEL Wheel
Time: 10 minutes
Process: Lecture based- Learners will be given access to an interactive wheel that reviews the five domains of SEL along with current research. Presenter will give a brief lecture of the content found within the wheel.

Content: Interactive SEL Strategies
Time: 25 minutes
Process: Device-based activities- Learners will follow along with the presenter using their virtual “goody-bag” as specific strategies that can be used to engage students through technology to learn SEL skills will be reviewed. This will include: virtual escape rooms, interactive google slides (in a “create your own adventure” format), creation of relaxation or mindfulness digital rooms, collaborative boards, and programs such as Adobe Express where students can create collages of self-expression, posters that communicate important messages, or flyers that teach their peers a skill.

Content: Practice
Time: 10 minutes
Process: Peer-to-peer- Learners will work in break out rooms to apply what they have learned to their own teaching strategies. They will discuss ideas for synthesis and application with their peers and will be given the option to start the creation of their own safe spaces.

Content: Q&A
Time: 5 minutes
Process: Interactive- Learners will be given the opportunity to ask the presenter questions.

Supporting research

https://casel.org/fundamentals-of-sel/what-does-the-research-say/

https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1297841.pdf