Social Emotional Learning (SEL)

Front: CS and computational thinking open opportunities to explore emotional and social situations. Collaborating with peers in a scaffolded process allows students to practice expressing themselves and sharing their ideas. SEL helps students build self awareness, self management, social awareness, relationship skills and responsible decision making, key dispositions for creators and consumers of technology.

Back: Create lessons that include affective content, possibly through storytelling, problem solving, or data collection and analysis. Make time for students to share their own feelings during the presentation of the lesson and during reflection afterwards. Establish routines for collaboration (during think-pair-share or pair programming, for example) that guide students toward exchanging thoughts and feelings respectfully and productively. Sharing emotions can create a dynamic discussion. Prepare teachers with strategies to help students regulate their feelings and, if necessary, to provide comfort and support.

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