Exploring Social and Emotional Learning Within Educator Preparation Programs in Oregon

• In Event: Fairmont Roundtable Session Fifteen
  In Roundtable Session: Preparing and Supporting Teachers to Provide Social and Emotional Learning to Students (Table 15)

Abstract

There is a growing need for teachers to be prepared to attend to the social and emotional development of their students. With this need comes the responsibility for Educator Preparation Programs to thoroughly prepare teacher candidates in SEL so that they enter the teaching field ready to do so. Unfortunately, extant research has revealed that EPPs across the U.S. are inconsistently providing the type of coursework or experiences that pre-service teachers need in order to feel prepared in various dimensions of SEL. The current study explores how EPPs in Oregon are preparing, or not preparing, teacher candidates to enter the field ready to attend to the social and emotional dimensions of teaching and learning.

Authors

• Julie Sauve, University of British Columbia
  Presenting Author

• Kristin Rush, TSPC of Oregon
  Non-Presenting Author

• Deirdre A Hon, University of Portland
  Non-Presenting Author

• Lina Darwich, Lewis & Clark College
  Non-Presenting Author

• Angela Healow, Lane ESD
  Presenting Author