Taught Social and Emotional Education: SEE in the Curriculum

Abstract

High-quality classroom teaching of social and emotional education (SEE) as a core subject area in the primary school curriculum is one of the key elements of the SEE framework presented in Chap. 2. This chapter describes the SEE content areas to be taught, how SEE can be organised and taught and how the classroom teacher may assess the progress of the individual pupils in developing their social and emotional capabilities. The following sections describe the SEE content and goals for each area, the learning standards defining the learning needed to reach each stated goal, the staged benchmarks developed from each standard indicating the progress in pupils’ learning of the skills in each standard, the method of instruction and the assessment of the skills taught. This framework draws loosely from the one developed by the Anchorage School District Social and Emotional Learning in Alaska, USA, but it has been adapted according to the curriculum framework proposed in the book. There is also a section on how the curriculum may be embedded in the other areas of the curriculum, whereas the final section discusses the evaluation of the curriculum’s effectiveness in pupils’ SEE.

Appendix

Table 4.5 Stage 2 (early primary) learning benchmarks (adapted from ASD SEL, 2012) learning benchmarks stage 1. (Adapted from the Anchorage School District)