Teaching students social and emotional skills can help students make responsible decisions inside and outside of the classroom. Effective SEL instructions can contribute to improvements in academic performance and students need this if they are doing poorly in class due to stress and other contributing factors. Improved mental health is one of the important long term effect of SEL instructions and therefore teachers believe the curriculum should be more efficient in school so it can help benefit students.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/08/opinion/college-gpa-career-success.html\
In a study, psychologists tracked down America most creative architects and compared them with their same skilled peers, but who were high achievers in college. One factor that distinguished the creative architects were they risky grades on college compared to their other peers. Students obsesses over getting straight A’s in school and even risking their health over it. Students who strive for straight A’s miss out socially due to the number of hours they put into studying. However, students do not know academic excellence does not predict career excellence due to there is no correlation between them. Having the mentality of thinking having straight A’s in school will help succeed in the future is bad for the student, emotionally and socially affecting them inside and outside the classroom.
A student named Mason was a high performance student. He plagiarized and got expelled, moreover his emotional health was bad. He was experiencing stress, anxiety, and ashamed because he felt the school didn’t appreciate nor recognized his hard work. Now a days, educators should be more focused on the student emotional health because due to the rigorous academics they are taking and having to fit their extra curricular activities in. Students can be sleep deprived from this and will come to school feeling tired and perform poorly in the classroom and in the social aspect of it. That’s why schools are starting to emphasize SEL( Social Emotional Learning) to engage students in a positive way and to instill emotional conscious, coping skills, and self awareness.
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