Social Emotional Learning for Students (SELS)

Social Emotional Learning (SEL) refers to the process of learning five key competencies: self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship skills, and responsible decision making ability. These five competencies can work as a foundation for building and maintaining high-quality social relationships and for making an appropriate response to the challenges and difficulties in a person's life.

Over the past three decades, more than 200 research found that social and emotional learning was able to enhance students' academic performance by 11 percentile points which is based on their comparison to those who didn't receive SEL training. Numerous research reports support such findings, showing that social and emotional learning (SEL) does have a positive impact on students' academic performance. Furthermore, students participating SEL training also showed the changes to their aggressive behaviour, emotional distress, and their pro-social behaviour increases as well. Such changes are understandable as the five abilities included in SEL enable a person to make healthy responses in daily activities. To be specific, a person equipped with abilities of self understanding, self management, interpersonal relationship, coping skills, problem solving and decision making competencies will surely succeed in their life. Moreover, helping students develop those competencies will also benefit parents and teachers as well. For example, parents will find communications with their children becomes more effective and teachers have more time on academic performance with less on some students' challenging behaviour in classroom. This illustrates that parents and teachers will share the progress with their children and students, which makes a difference in school, family and any other places.

Our SEL training takes flexible and active-learning techniques to foster students' positive attitudes towards their unhealthy emotion, difficulties and challenges from their daily activities in schools, families and public places. Self-reflection, peer-reviewed discussion, experiencing and exercising are used to help students develop their cognition, strategies and skills for practice in their real-life settings.