Being Well, Teaching Well: Approaches to Social and Emotional Learning in Teacher Education

• In Event: AERA Roundtable Session Friday 3:20 pm Four Seasons Ballroom 4
  In Roundtable Session: Emotion, Well-Being, Efficacy, and Resilience: Social Emotional Learning in Teacher Education (Table 9)

Abstract

Because teachers play pivotal roles in fostering the social and emotional development of their students, effective implementation of students’ social and emotional learning (SEL) requires that teachers attend to their own social and emotional competence. This proposal examines how professional development programs that focus on teachers’ SEL have been addressed in education research literature. Through its analysis of both qualitative and quantitative studies (n=20), this proposal identifies promising approaches and gaps in the literature regarding pre-service and in-service teachers’ SEL.

Author

• Kathryn Polley, University of Georgia