Incorporating Social Emotional Learning(SEL) in CME lessons

Objective:

To ensure children acquire the skills, knowledge and dispositions that will help them face future challenges. Children equipped with social and emotional skills, anchored in sound values, will be able to demonstrate good character and citizenship.

Sypnosis:

SEL is the acquisition of skills to recognise and manage emotions, develop care and concern for others, make responsible decisions, establish positive relationships, and handle challenging situations effectively. The social and emotional competencies are: 

Core SEL Skills
Description 

Self Awareness

 Identifying and recognising emotions
 Accurate self-perception
 Recognising strengths, needs and values
 Self-efficacy
 Spirituality

Social Awareness

 Perspective taking
 Empathy
 Appreciating diversity
 Respect for others

Self Management

 Impulse control and stress management
 Self-motivation and discipline
 Goal setting and organisational skills

Relationship Management

 Communication, social engagement and
   building relationships
 Working cooperatively
 Negotiation, refusal and conflict management
 Seeking and providing help

Responsible Decision Making

 Problem identification and situation analysis
 Problem solving
 Evaluation and reflection
 Personal, moral and ethical responsibility

Teaching of these associated skills to children can be explicit, through infusion during CME lessons for eg. Story-telling, case-studies, review of newspaper articles etc.

The teaching of social emotional competencies complements the teaching of values and facilitates the translation of each value into action.

Day:

Curriculum time, during CME lessons.

Venue:

Classrooms

Teachers-in-charge:

Mother Tongue teachers teaching CME and subject teachers

Cultutal Immersion Programme

In West View Primary School, we believe in giving our pupils a holistic education that provides them with good moral values and vast experiences through their daily school work and school programmes. In our continuous efforts to enhance moral development of pupuls amd make learning of values more meaningful, the CCE department has decided to embark on a CME Cultural Immersion Programme in 2011. This programme aims to transmit traditional culture and values which is still relevant for the majority of students. However,it should be achieved in a flexible and natural way that students find interseting and relevant. Cultural content can include both traditional and contemporary elements .

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