BUILDING SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING THROUGH HUMOR AND, “THINKING ABOUT YOUR THINKING (METACOGNITION).”

Objectives:

• Explain how social skills can affect overall cognitive development and how improving social skills can improve educational outcomes for our students.

• Learn strategies that can be utilized tomorrow to build social-emotional skills based on two essential components of SEL:  humor and metacognition (Metacognition)

• Employ strategies to develop social reciprocity, self-regulation, an understanding of others and to help students be aware of how their behavior affects others. 

Presenter:

Christine Toleson, Ph.D.

School Psychologist