Watch Dr Heidi Leeson (Monocle Education) discuss social-emotional learning (SEL) and share her latest research on the most impactful areas of SEL in regard to academic performance and the developmental stages of students. Heidi also discusses the importance of using valid and reliable tools to measure learning-related behaviours, and how this data can be interpreted with performance information, to provide teachers with a richer and more detailed understanding of their students. You can find out more about Heidi’s work and contact her on the Monocle website.

To help you navigate the webinar easily, there is a list of the key topics covered in the session below, including the time each was discussed. The key ideas discussed in this webinar are also shared in a short insight article.

Webinar timings:

3.18:	What precisely is meant by the term ‘social emotional learning’, and why is it so important to academic learning and later life success?
12.07:	The importance of different aspects of social emotional learning at different ages and stages in students’ lives, and the relative stability of these various social emotional skills
22.55:	Why and how to reliably measure social emotional learning
28.28:	Using data to improve and develop students’ social emotional learning
42.50:	What knowledge do teachers need in order to develop their students’ social emotional learning?
46.45:	The roles of parents and families in supporting social emotional learning

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