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Social Emotional Learning
SEL Ecosystem Toolkit:
The Learning Future had the pleasure of placing Hannah Bourbon, graduate student, Monash University who focussed her final project on socio-emotional learning. We are delighted to host her project here.
The project was built using resources from:
OECD, HundrED, CASEL, Edutopia, Givethx, AmalAlliance, NHS, W.B.S.Somerset, Karanga, and others.
The future belongs to people who unlearn and relearn, rapidly and continuously, to become lifelong and lifewide learners.
It is our key human skills that distinguish us from the machines that will augment all our work, both during and after this global health and economic crisis. The singular constant that enables success will be, where we learn to work, then work to learn, ever expanding our learning and life.
The challenge
Our only constant is change. Pandemics, rapid social change, continual uncertainty and increasing stress. Our social systems, like schools, businesses and Governments struggle to innovate fast enough to prepare themselves for the future world. Companies and entire industries are disrupted by converging technologies with underinvestment in the right learning mindset. Governments and the public sector struggle to keep pace with rising complexity and can be slow to shift. Large scale disruption driving by the convergence of exponential technologies is causing rapid change in the way we live, work and learn.
All this means that in the emerging worlds of work, business and education, we only thrive when we inspire and equip workers and learners for their future.
Gone are the days of learning to work, in the future we will all work through learning, having multiple jobs, careers and even professions.
Solutions
Wellbeing and Mindfulness – how schools can maintain connectedness and prioritise this learning in the new learning environment
Managing Learning Continuity – transitioning to online and remote learning
Shifting pedagogy – opportunities to embed entrepreneurial learning
Student Agency – how to embed approaches to learning that will ensure the essential components, levels and aspects of student agency are at the centre of the new learning paradigm.
At The Learning Future we are constantly seeking ways to prepare students, teachers, parents, and leaders to engage, through learning, a world in constant flux. COVID-19 has rapidly changed the way we live, work, and learn.
Below are some curated resources, seeking out the best ways to maintain physical distancing while ensuring social and emotional connectedness.
Partnered Resources
WELLBEING AND MINDFULNESS – HOW SCHOOLS AND EDUCATORS CAN MAINTAIN CONNECTEDNESS AND PRIORITISE THIS LEARNING IN THE NEW LEARNING ENVIRONMENT. HOW PARENTS CAN SUPPORT THEIR KIDS.
Tips for Parents: Integrating SEL into Remote Learning - https://www.edc.org/blog/tips-parents-integrating-sel-remote-learning
22 YA Novels to Help Students Process the Pandemic (or Forget It for a Bit) - https://www.edutopia.org/article/22-ya-novels-help-students-process-pandemic-or-forget-it-bit
Resources for Learning at Home - https://www.weareteachers.com/resources-learning-home/
Supporting Kids’ Mental Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic - https://www.weareteachers.com/kids-mental-health-covid-19/
8 Practical Things Families Can Do at Home to Support Social-Emotional Learning - https://www.weareteachers.com/social-emotional-learning-at-home/
Committee for Children: Resources for Educators and Families - https://www.secondstep.org/covid19support
Be You has developed resources to help educators respond to the mental health impact of the COVID-19 pandemic - https://beyou.edu.au/about-be-you
POWERFUL DIGITAL PEDAGOGY – TRANSITIONING TO ONLINE AND REMOTE LEARNING AND USING DESIGN. TECHNOLOGY AS A TOOL FOR EXPANDED LEARNING.
Some useful resources to support learning in the time of COVID-19 - https://www.forbes.com/sites/lindadarlinghammond/2020/03/19/learning-in-the-time-of-covid-19/#637356257203
Learning in the time of coronavirus: planning distance schooling - https://improvingteaching.co.uk/2020/03/12/learning-in-the-time-of-coronavirus-planning-distance-schooling/
Exhausted and Grieving: Teaching During the Coronavirus Crisis - https://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2020/04/16/exhausted-and-grieving-teaching-during-the-coronavirus.html
7 Ways to Maintain Relationships During Your School Closure - https://www.edutopia.org/article/7-ways-maintain-relationships-during-your-school-closure
ThinkEqual: Free Children’s Books and Activities - https://thinkequal.org
Coronavirus (COVID-19) Resources - https://inee.org/covid-19/webinars
World Economic Forum: Education and Skills Archive - https://www.weforum.org/agenda/archive/education
Education.com: Printable Graded Workbooks - https://www.education.com/workbooks/independent/?cid=10.176
NEW SKILLS FOR THE NEW WORLD – OPPORTUNITIES TO EMBED SOCIAL EMOTIONAL AND ETHICAL AND ENTREPRENEURIAL LEARNING. EMBED APPROACHES TO LEARNING THAT WILL ENSURE THE ESSENTIAL COMPONENTS, LEVELS AND ASPECTS OF STUDENT AGENCY ARE AT THE CENTRE OF THE NEW LEARNING PARADIGM.
Why the Coronavirus Crisis Hits Teenagers Particularly Hard: Developmental Scientists Explain - https://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2020/04/16/why-the-coronavirus-crisis-hits-teenagers-particularly.html
Inter-Agency Network for Education in Emergencies: Webinars - https://inee.org/covid-19/webinars
What Works in Online/Distance Teaching and Learning? - https://www.aitsl.edu.au/research/spotlight/what-works-in-online-distance-teaching-and-learning
How educators are responding to Covid-19 and how the nation is responding to them. - https://www.socialventures.com.au/blog/how-educators-are-responding-to-covid-19-and-how-the-nation-is-responding-to-them/
THE BIG PICTURE – RANGE OF INSIGHTS ON THE BROAD IMPACTS OF COVID AND DISRUPTION ON SOCIETY.
The New Normal: Five Insights from GOA's COVID-19 Leadership Roundtable - https://globalonlineacademy.org/insights/articles/the-new-normal-five-insights-from-goas-covid-19-leadership-roundtable
The future is not what it used to be: Thoughts on the shape of the next normal - https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/leadership/the-future-is-not-what-it-used-to-be-thoughts-on-the-shape-of-the-next-normal
What can COVID-19 teach us about strengthening education systems? - https://www.brookings.edu/blog/education-plus-development/2020/04/09/what-can-covid-19-teach-us-about-strengthening-education-systems/
Coronavirus is not just a tragedy. It’s an opportunity to build a better world - https://www.vox.com/2020/4/10/21213287/coronavirus-covid-19-pandemic-epidemic-society-historian-nationalism-globalization
Four coronavirus futures - Where might we be headed and to what kind of new normality? - https://www.nesta.org.uk/blog/four-coronavirus-futures/
The COVID-19 test - What have we learnt so far? Reflections on emerging trends. - https://www.nesta.org.uk/blog/covid-test/