Module: 4.6.1 Social-Emotional Learning and Enhancing Quality
This session will introduce participants to social-emotional skills and their relationship to the California Quality Standards for Expanded Learning Programs. Participants will be able to articulate what social-emotional skills look like in youth and the California Quality Standards for Expanded Learning Programs that contribute to the skill development in youth.
This module was developed as part of the Expanded Learning 360/365 project and revised in 2016 to specific language, examples and tips for summer and year-round learning programs and revised in 2019 to incorporate language to support mental health and wellness.
In this training participants will:
- Strengthen understanding of social-emotional skills that out-of-school time and expanded learning programs support.
- Articulate what social-emotional skills look like in youth.
- Identify the connection between quality standards and social-emotional skills.
Content Overview:
Social-Emotional Learning and Character Skills in Out-of-School Time Programs
Participants will have an opportunity to learn about the six social-emotional skills identified by the Expanded Learning 360/365 initiative that contribute to and that are interdependent with improved academic and well-being outcomes.
Skills in Action
Participants will explore the six social-emotional skills in more depth by identifying what a young person may say or do if they possessed the skill.
Quality Standards, Social-Emotional Learning and Character Skills
Participants will identify the California Quality Standards that contribute to the skill development in youth.
Training Length: 2 hours