Social and emotional learning (SEL) is the process through which children and adults understand and manage emotions, set and achieve positive goals, feel and show empathy for others, establish and maintain positive relationships, and make responsible decisions.
Arts Integration promotes Social-Emotional Learning by:
- Fostering empathy
- Helping students identify and process emotions
- Providing safe opportunities to practice decision-making
- Encouraging cooperative learning opportunities
- Encouraging active play, which provides many benefits like learning to express and identify emotions, gaining feelings of confidence and control, and forming strong relationships
- Motivating students to practice relationship skills in an authentic way
- Encouraging student engagement, which in turn encourages social-emotional growth