Videos: SEL Topics

Overview

Videos developed with discussion guides can teach students about social and emotional learning (SEL) skills. Teachers can choose videos their learners can connect with to see and discuss abstract SEL topics in a more concrete way.

Use It in the Classroom

Viewing short video clips on SEL topics followed by discussions and/or related activities promotes relevance and meaningful connection of these topics to students' Background Knowledge and, by extension, their own personal lives.

Design It into Your Product

Videos are chosen as examples of strategies in action. These choices are not endorsements of the products or evidence of use of research to develop the feature.

Watch how products like Character Playbook use videos to teach about managing emotions. After viewing a short story, learners identify the emotions experienced by the characters and with this practice, develop a better understanding of emotions.

Products can create or provide videos that simplify complex SEL topics through storytelling, allowing the lessons to be more accessible and applicable to learners.

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Resources

Below are additional examples, research, and professional development. These resources are possible representations of this strategy, not endorsements.

Examples

Mojo Gets Mindful

ClassDojo videos addressing different SEL topics

Examples

Social and Emotional Learning

Flocabulary's educational hip hop songs and videos on SEL concepts

Professional Development

Teaching Students Empathy

Module by Sanford Inspire

Research

Academic Emotions

Subtopic that includes research on students' emotions related to learning on Digital Promise's Research Map