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From a blogpost written by Dr. Nancy Sulla
The Learner-Active, Technology-Infused Classroom (LATIC) is a social learning environment that builds student responsibility for learning. It is a veritable playground for promoting Social and Emotional learning (SEL).
What does a typical moment look like in such a student-driven learning environment? Students:
- Are excited to tackle developing a solution to a real-world problem as part of a collaborative team (“home group”).
- Review rubrics to determine what they already know and what they need to learn, and then set learning goals.
- Reference activity lists with differentiated learning opportunities and choose how they will learn.
- Create schedules for their day or week as to how they will use their time: individually, with a partner, and with a group.
- Keep track of time and move from one activity to another based on the schedules they created.
- Utilize the teacher, peers, and outside experts as resources in the learning process.
- Offer guidance and support to their colleagues in their mutual quest for learning.
- Self-assess using a “Great Student Rubric” for how to engage in a social, collaborative learning environment.
Now take a moment to map those to the five key competencies of Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) as defined by casel.org:
When teachers increase student responsibility for learning; student engagement in collaborative, real-world problem-solving; and student voice and choice in the classroom; they design learning environments that requires students to increase their skills in self-awareness, self-management, responsible decision-making, working relationships, and social awareness. In building these critical skills, they are preparing students for life in and out of school across their lives.
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Course Description: Social and emotional learning (SEL) plays a major role in one’s success if life and career. Being in touch with emotions, controlling them, setting and achieving goals, engaging with others in socially appropriate ways, demonstrating empathy toward others, establishing positive relationships, and taking responsibility in life are critical skills that are not necessarily included in school curricula. They are skills that are fostered every day in student-driven learning environments like the Learner-Active, Technology-Infused Classroom. Develop structures and strategies you can employ to build SEL in your classroom or school. (2-week summer session available)
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Our in-person SEL options can be found here. Feel free to reach out for more information.
Dr. Nancy Sulla is an author, national speaker, and thought leader in transforming learning environments to build student engagement, empowerment, and efficacy.
Dr. Nancy Sulla is an author, national speaker, and thought leader in transforming learning environments to build student engagement, empowerment, and efficacy.
As the creator of the Learner-Active, Technology-Infused Classroom and founder of IDE Corp. – Innovative Designs for Education and Edquiddity Inc – Education for Your Whatness, Dr. Sulla leads her educational consulting firm in the pursuit of equity-focused instructional design, positioning students to change the world.
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