It is important for teachers & facilitators to understand that social and emotional learning fosters the ability to make positive choices about how we behave. As teens, students need to build up the ‘tool kit’ of life skills to strengthen their decision-making skills.

These include:

• ​self-awareness

• self-concept

• social awareness

• social management

• critical thinking

• problem solving

• reflecting & analysing

These can be incorporated through the segment via online group discussion. Additionally, when face to face group opportunities present themselves use may be made in pedagogy such as role-play, debating, presentations at assemblies, and local community groups. Teachers will also know that our experiences and actions affect the way our brains develop and positive role models and interactions from family members and others such as club leaders, coaches, teachers, friends and social groups.

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Quality feedback, reactions and experiential learning add to the teen’s ‘tool kit’ by helping them to learn:
 

• Strategies for relating and interacting with others

• Assertive behaviour skill

• How to establish and manage changing relationships – offline and online

• General health and wellbeing activities

• What impact Social / emotional health has on general well being

• Observe real resilience skills in action that support resilient behaviour

• See how others demonstrate coping skills and help seeking strategies