What Are Social Emotional Skills?
Social emotional skills are life skills that enable a child to establish positive relationships with others, solve problems effectively and identify and manage emotions and feelings.
This presentation will discuss the intentional teaching of the following social emotional skills:
| Social Emotional Skill | Description |
| Confidence | Builds self-‐‑esteem or vice-‐‑versa |
| Develops competence that helps in participation | |
| Helps making friends | |
| Leads to higher academic achievement in the future | |
| Co-‐‑operation | Helps in sharing and taking turns |
| Develops the quality of patience | |
| Facilitates helpfulness | |
| Helps to accept and appreciate differences | |
| Makes good listeners | |
| Builds a team player | |
| Communication | Helps in positive interactions with peers |
| Facilitates the expressing of emotions & feelings | |
| Fosters friendships and helps being a friend | |
| Good Manners | Cultivate stronger relationships & positive interactions |
| Develop a strong moral foundation | |
| Shape well-‐‑rounded citizens | |
| Foster respect and responsibility | |
| Independence | Teaches staying on task and completing tasks |
| Assists in staying focused | |
| Enables following directions | |
| Enhances future performance in school | |
| Self-‐‑control | Inculcates patience and respect for others |
| Instills respect for self and property | |
| Infuses politeness and courtesy | |
| Empathy | Encourages understanding/communicating own/others’ feelings and emotions |
| Inspires to respect differences |
| Social Emotional Skill | Description |
| Confidence | Builds self-‐‑esteem or vice-‐‑versa |
| Develops competence that helps in participation | |
| Helps making friends | |
| Leads to higher academic achievement in the future | |
| Co-‐‑operation | Helps in sharing and taking turns |
| Develops the quality of patience | |
| Facilitates helpfulness | |
| Helps to accept and appreciate differences | |
| Makes good listeners | |
| Builds a team player | |
| Communication | Helps in positive interactions with peers |
| Facilitates the expressing of emotions & feelings | |
| Fosters friendships and helps being a friend | |
| Good Manners | Cultivate stronger relationships & positive interactions |
| Develop a strong moral foundation | |
| Shape well-‐‑rounded citizens | |
| Foster respect and responsibility | |
| Independence | Teaches staying on task and completing tasks |
| Assists in staying focused | |
| Enables following directions | |
| Enhances future performance in school | |
| Self-‐‑control | Inculcates patience and respect for others |
| Instills respect for self and property | |
| Infuses politeness and courtesy | |
| Empathy | Encourages
understanding/communicating own/others’ feelings
and emotions |
| Inspires to respect differences |
Posts
