Social and emotional learning: Trish Shaffer at TEDxUniversityofNevada

Trish Shaffer is the Coordinator for Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) for the Washoe County School District (WCSD). In this talk, she discusses the practice and value of social and emotional learning.

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[anthonyalves]

There are so many great points made in this TED presentation. Every educator needs to have Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) in their teaching simply because teachers need not just teach their students academic content, but students need to know how to interact appropriately with their peers, agree/disagree respectfully with one another, and know how to become a productive member of society.

[Suzifully]

Lovely speech. I agree, connections can explain why students don't want to be at school, because... that's honestly how i feel. And if students were educated at a young age socially and emotionally, imagine how much more active & different our communities would be.

[dianalifecoach]

Thanks Ms. Trish for this great talk. I am currently teaching it at several NYC schools. We just started last year and are now about to assess how it impacted our 5th Graders.

[joshuafagans]

I agree with her a lot of students are dropping out of school because of being bullied and some do nt know how to deal with two , they need somebody to go around to all the school and educate teacher and students on social skill and how to rightly express your emotions

[thane]

Trish sounds like she's one emotional story from bursting into tears

[pmjones]

Great speech. Seemed a bit "memorized from transcript, Biggest issue was that while the talk was great on identifying the problem there wasn't much on what we could do specifically as teachers. That would be a great follow up Ted Talk.

[nandafprado]

Wow I wish my school had this program, all I remember was having a teacher come up to me and say everyday for me to try to make some more friends, I asked how but she couldnt answer me. Only got good friends at high school, and they told me later that the reason why other kids wouldnt talk to me was because they thought I was lesbian do to my short hair, but they didnt mind. And when I told everyone I wasnt gay it got me more friends, but I still stuck around that first group because they were awesome. 

[alishaclayton]

A passion of mine to hopefully one day manage to make Social and Emotional Learning compulsory within the national curriculum - currently doing a research paper around this topic! Thanks for the video, couldn’t agree more with what you say...

[jeannedillman]

SEL is an important part of relationship building and modeling to our students that social and emotional learning is a connection to the world.

[dalmiyan]

thankfully you slowly telling i understanding

[lucassolomon]

She keeps saying, "studies show". What studies show???

[marcelaarango]

i am hearing this because is a work of the school :(

[hackysaq]

Thanks for your talk. I'd like to hear other practical ways to encourage and document SEL in school. And yes, thinking back, I do remember my teachers and friends from K-3, an not much else =)

[AndreaSamadi]

Would love to connect with you!! Working on the neuroscience associated w SEL to help teachers with new strategies.

[mistergooseman]

That's the responsibility and privilege of the parents. Not the state.

[immanuelcan]

She's a complete ideologue, and very ill-informed. Resilience is built by the experience of having faced risk and challenge, and having overcome it. The more often that happens, the stronger kids get. Every study on anxiety and fragility shows that's true. But this "care bear" thinks that "teaching awareness" is how it happens. She's just wrong, and should read a book on psychology.

[jamesroberts]

I dont suppose you could blame it on the rising narcissism that is taught by the schools, govt, media, facebook, twitter, et al.
I find it so interesting that when education, both academic and moral/social was left to the parents, these conditions didnt exist anywhere near where they do now; if at all. The more responsibility and authority is taken away from the parents the more society goes down the drain.
Of course, another govt mandated education program will fix all these ills.
"Please, help me". ROFThrowingUp!

[naomiiyt]

Me having to watch this for Gym class👁👁

[kitcat]

2:12 8 years later and this is still an issue, maybe even worse issue

[jriccardi]

SEL is the umbrella for CRT and grooming. If you really want to learn the truth about it, listen to James Lindsay.