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The Effects Of Social Emotional On Students At Risk

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Introduction
Social-emotional awareness is an important skill to be able to learn for children in general, but more importantly for children at risk. This paper will address the effectiveness of social-emotional learning for students at risk and the importance of learning social-emotional skills in conjunction with the students’ academic education. Although the main focus of this paper is for students who are at risk, this paper also addresses if social-emotional learning is effective for students in general. For this paper, students who are acknowledged as at risk are students with disabilities and health concerns. However, the term risk is defined as “exposure to the chance of injury or loss, or a hazard or dangerous change” (Dictionary.com). Within British Columbia, during the 2011 to 2012 school year, the enrolment of students with special needs was a total of 50,497 (BCTF Information Service and Research Development, 2012). Although this statistic is from three years ago, the difference from 2002 to 2012 is an increase of 1,560 students (BCTF Information Services and Research Department, 2012). This paper identifies key concepts, such as, what is social-emotional learning, the benefits and long term effects of social-emotional learning, ways it should be implemented, and potential issues arising within social-emotional learning. Identifying these key concepts will help determine if social-emotional learning, within a school community, is effective for students who are

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