Student Self-Control & Self-Regulation: Social and Emotional Learning (SEL)

Executive Function & Self-Regulation: Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) is a greater predictor of academic achievement in school and in life. Developing Executive Function is as important as building academic skills. Improving academic success starts with building social emotional intelligence, self-control, and self-regulation. Research shows these are a key predictors of long term school success and they should be introduced and developed in preschool and elementary school. So why do we place so little value in early childhood education and Social and Emotional Learning? 

Social and Emotional Learning and Self-regulation is critical for learning and student engagement, our students pay the price for our short-sightedness when we ignore our emotional needs! Sean Taylor

Teaching (SEL) students self-control and self-regulation long-term benefits:

• Greater participation
• Lifelong Learners
• Greater Critical Thinkers and Problem Solvers
• Higher Graduation Rates
• Higher SAT scores, for some that matters 
• Higher lifetime earning and job security
• Greater health and life expectancy

Quick Strategies for Developing Self-Control

• Distract yourself
• Reappraise your thinking 
• Visualize the positives and negatives outcomes or consequences

Sharing and discussion is great after the teacher gives directions or instruction, yet students blurting out and talking during the teacher's instruction is not okay and disruptive. Self-control and Self-regulation skills develop as early as age 3-4 as demonstrated by the Stanford marshmallow experiment. Students can learn the strategies of self-monitoring and Self-Control at an early age, so it is critical that teachers use, model, and have high expectations for Self Regulation in their classrooms.

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The Stanford marshmallow experiment was a series of studies on delayed gratification in the late 1960s and early 1970s led by psychologist Walter Mischel