Social and Emotional Learning Flashcards
What have the reports into children mental health shown?
1 in 4 women have some form of mental illness
Children aged 5-15, one in 9 had a mental health disorder, up from one in 10 in the previous study
Onset happening in adolescence but pre cursers occur earlier on
What is the difference between mental disorders in girls and boys?
at age, 5-10, boys have it a lot more prevalent
11-16 - evens off
17-19 - girls have it a lot more than men
What is mental health connected with?
Relationships - usually take an individualistic approach to mental health, believing it is the problem inside a child. Sometimes is genetic but relationships do matter
Emotional well being, social relationships are important - connected to academic engagement and achievement outcomes
Mental health important for engaging with the curriculum
What is a visual representation of networks in a class?
Asking children who they would like to hang out with
Some children attract a lot of positive nominations
Majority of children, over several years of life, can occupy the rejected position in school
What is the social information processing model? Crick and Dodge
Mental health and well being can be underpinned by many social and emotional variables. Can account for various differences in social adjustment
What are the steps in the social information processing model?
- Encoding of cues - notice things
- Interpretation
- Classification of goals
- Response access
- Response decision
- Behavioural enactment - peer evaluation and response
What are children who encode more negative cues?
They are more anxious
Barrett et al - cognitive biases in families
Percentage of anxious children selecting avoidant solutions
- 30% before family discussion
- 68% after family discussion
Percentage of ODD children selecting aggressive solutions
- 30% before family discussion
- 80% after discussion
More anxious when talking, families have a big impact
What are CASEL’s five SEL competencies?
Self-management Self-awareness Responsible decision making Relationship skills Social awareness
What does intersecting domains refer too?
Under the behaviour is lots of different things - behaviour, cognition, emotion, motivation, relationships
What is the problem with methods?
Not a single measure out there which will tell us about all of this stuff - every measurement approach will be limited - if you ask teachers, only have a small access to Childs life
What does emotion recognition and labelling at age 2-3 predict?
Interactive peer play (sharing toys, comforts others, shows positive emotions, helps other children)
What does theory of mind at age 5 predict?
More prosocial behaviour at age 6 - more peer acceptance and less peer rejection at age 7 - longitudinal study
Less peer rejection at age 7 - better academic achievement at age 8 - social emotional competencies of children predict achievement
What does early peer rejection predict?
Difficulties with social understanding - more peer rejection
Leece et al - conversations as a basic for social understanding
Conversations about hypothetical conversations
91 children aged 9-10 years
Randomly allocated to conversation based ‘theory of mind’ training program or control program
Stories about misunderstanding, use of irony, faux pas, double-bluff
Results:
Pre test - no difference
After intervention - TOM improved greatly
follow up - maintained in the 2 month follow up
Shows SEL can be impacted with different interventions
Durlak et al - meta analysis
Meta analysis of school-based SEL programs shows significant improvements: social and emotional skills attitudes about self, others and school classroom behaviour conduct problems emotional distress achievement test scores
Importance of effective implementation (SAFE acronym)
What does SAFE mean?
Sequenced
Active
Focussed
Explicit
extent to which they are fulfilling this - the better the results
What does the ecological model of the school environment show?
Huge frame work, children exist and interact within complex multilayered ecologies
Systems - child in families, peers, communities, school, class, all interact within one another
Might be happening indirectly - for example, a parents workplace might be impacting children indirectly
Banerjee et al - promoting well being at school
Report for welsh government - huge literature on mental health intervention and prevention programs
key points:
some pupils benefit from targeted work, but this shouldn’t replace from universal provision
even programs with very strong evidence base may not deliver reliable and sustained positive outcomes when rolled out over a large number of schools
implementation matters - put it in correctly
schools matter - idea of a connected School - everything needs to be connected
What is the idea of a connected school?
Everything needs to be linked e.g. curriculum with the staff and services, classroom etc
What is SEAL?
Social and emotional aspects of learning
What did national evaluation of SEAL show?
Program implemented - lots of resources
But, showed null results
however, what was being measured? - relying on chid self-reports
was the comparison of SEAL and non SEAL schools valid?
need to consider variations in how initiatives are taken forward in schools
SEAL tracker school project
Preliminary work focusing on qualitative data from 2008/9
2010 data:
53 schools visited
32 schools contributed pupil data
23 schools contributed staff data
Wide range of schools (FSM, attainment, attendance etc)
Results:
Schools varied in what they did with SEAL
some implementing it into the community
others integrating social and emotional well being to different classes
schools differed
only worked with one time point tho
Bidirectional associations - schools doing well, more capacity to engage with social emotional learning
but if struggling, won’t be focussing on it, even though these are the ones that would benefit the most
