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Impact of Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) Programs on Students

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Preparing students for life success, requires a balanced education that includes social and emotional education. It is important that families, schools and communities come together to achieve this. This article is researching the positive effects, of social and emotional learning of students in kindergarten to eighth grade. This article summarizes three reviews of research on the impact of social and emotional learning (SEL) programs on elementary school and middle age school students. These programs promote social and emotional skills (Weissberg, Taylor, Schellinger, Payton, Pachan, Dymcicki and Durlak, 2008). The SEL programs showed many benefits in both school and after-school settings for students with and without behavioral and …show more content…

This study was done again to see if social and emotional learning still had positive effects on children. The study asked these questions; (a)What skills, attitudes, behaviors and academic outcomes do SEL programs achieve for elementary and middle school (K-8) students? (b) Do SEL program effects endure over time? (c) Are SEL programs effective in school and after school and for students with problems and without problems and (d) What features are associated with highly effective SEL programs? (Weissberg, Taylor, Schellinger, Payton, Pachan, Dymicki and Durlak, 2008). The study used a meta-analytic approach. The study was broken down into three reviews; The Universal Review, The Indicated Review and The After-School Review (Weissberg, Taylor, Schellinger, Payton, Pachan and Durlak, 2008) .
The Universal Review included 180 school-based studies involving 277,977 students. The strategy involved classroom programming, which were a set of lessons that sought to develop social and emotional skills such as problem and feeling identification, goal setting, conflict resolution strategies and interpersonal problem-solving skills (Weissberg, Taylor, Schellinger, Payton, Pachan, Dymicki and Durlak, 2008).
The Indicated Review had 80 studies involving 11,337 students (Weissberg, Taylor, Schellinger, Payton, Pachan, Dymicki and Durlak,

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