I'm exploring the impact of Social Emotional Learning (SEL) on emotionally charged topics for students, but really my audience are educators, with the job to teach the whole child. As Baggio points out, the trilogy of the mind: affective, cognitive, and conative are all filtered through the affective interface. This makes SEL a particular importance, especially since many of the students I serve deal with poverty, violence, addiction, and other challenges on a daily basis. I would like to draw powerful conclusions to provide a rationale for teachers to take SEL seriously, as a way to improve student wellbeing and academics.
To create resources for teachers, I will start with Baggio's insights around andogogy, or how to teach to adults; the key to this is application and utility. Why is it so important for teachers to learning this additional skill set? How will trauma/SEL awareness be useful? I think there is clear evidence around this in terms of Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE), and it's correlation to adult outcomes. This is the only reason why I teach and do my nonprofit work, to equip students to escape the adverse experience many of them face. Next, I would interweave Dervins ideas around circling the experience, which echoes Baggio, as the situation and gap are only surmountable if there is a use to the learning, how will this be helpful? Finally, Clark is especially important to the instructional system design, where there is a constant evaluation of needs, task analysis, learning objectives, informed assessment, development, try-out/revision, and finally implementation. I see that I often jump between these steps, but to make my strongest argument for this important topic, I will maximize my strategy.
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Becky
2/20/2017 01:57:00 pm
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Joe Hall
2/20/2017 03:23:07 pm
Reading Baggio's chapters was the first time I was cognitively aware of other learning filters such as affective learning and conative learning. In my homework assignment, I stated that I have heard of "Meta-cognitive awarenes" but I have never heard of "Meta-affective awareness" nor "Meta-conative awareness".
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AuthorAs a teacher and community advocate I strive to remedy the challenges of adverse childhood experiences (ACE), poverty and violence. I'm intrigued by the motivation that is cultivated by different supportive and discouraging learning environment, and how overcoming the achievement gap can transform our society. Archives
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