5 Core Social Emotional Competencies

1.  Self-Awareness: The abilities to understand one’s own emotions, thoughts, and values and how they influence behavior across contexts.  Having a growth mindset, linking feelings, values and thoughts.  Another example is identifying one's emotions.

2.  Social Awareness: The abilities to understand the perspectives of and empathize with others, including those from diverse backgrounds, cultures, & contexts.  Showing concern for the feelings of others, recognizing strengths in others, recognizing situational demands and opportunities.

3.  Self-Management: The abilities to manage one’s emotions, thoughts, and behaviors effectively in different situations and to achieve goals and aspirations.  Showing the courage to take initiative, managing one's emotions, exhibiting self-discipline and self-motivation.

4.  Relationship Skills: The abilities to establish and maintain healthy and supportive relationships and to effectively navigate settings with diverse individuals and groups.  Showing leadership in groups, developing positive relationships and communicating effectively.

5.  Responsible Decision-Making: The abilities to make caring and constructive choices about personal behavior and social interactions across diverse situations.  Identifying solutions for personal and social problems, demonstrating curiosity and open-mindedness, recognizing how critical thinking skills are useful both inside & outside of school.

1. Self-awareness --> Being able to recognize your own thoughts, values, and emotions. It is important to know how your own feelings can affect your behaviors. 

2. Self-management --> Your ability to use your emotions, behaviors, and thoughts effectively. Manage your behaviors in a positive way so you can be successful and obtain your goals.

3. Responsible Decision-making --> Making careful choices about your own behaviors. Your decisions should embody who you are (role model) and you should know the effects of your own decisions (positive/negative).

4. Relationship Skills --> Having long-lasting friendships and connections that you can maintain. These relationships should also be positive, healthy, and supportive for you.

5. Social Awareness --> Understand different perspectives from diverse backgrounds, cultures, and context. Compassion is key because you want to be sensitive to what other people believe and what they are involved in.

1. Self-awareness:  understanding oneself and identifying emotions 
~recognizing a broad range of emotions and learning vocabulary to precisely name a felt emotion.
2. Self-management:  coping with emotion once it is recognized
~managing and controlling feelings
~calming oneself
~impusle control
3.  Social Awareness: understanding and empathy toward others
~while people may be good at identifying someone else's emotion, the next step is asking what that might mean
4.  Relationship Skills:  getting along with others
~require the first three competencies and can be harder for some people to learn
5. Responsible Decision Making:
~time to make a choice while thinking about possible consequences
~relies on many abilities and skills

1) Self Awareness - one's ability to recognize and understand his/her own feelings and emotions
2) Self Management - one's ability to understand, manage, and control his or her own feelings; self-regulation of behavior
3) Social Awareness - one's ability to show understanding and empathy for others, including how one's actions might affect others
4) Relationship Skills - one's ability to get along with others, work in teams, and deal effectively with conflict
5) Responsible Decision-Making - one's ability to consider choices, thinking enough about consequences to make the best one

The five SEC's are as follows:

1.  Self Awareness - The ability to identify the emotions you are feeling and be able to manage them.

2. Self Management - When one can learn to cope when things don't go as planned and being able to self-regulate your response.

3. Social Awareness - To be able to show understanding and empathy to others (being able to put yourself in someone else's shoes).

4. Relationship Skills - Being able to get along with others and be able to make friends.  This requires the above SEC's.

5. Responsible Decision Making - How to take the time to make choices by thinking about the consequences of your actions and making the right choice.

There Five components to Social and Emotional Learning.

1) Self Awareness: Self-awareness is the ability to understand yourself and the emotions you are feeling.  Knowing 1 how they influence your behavior. It also helps you identify your strengths and weaknesses. 

2) Self Management:  the ability to recognize and manage your emotions and behaviors in different situations. It also is having and using effective anger management strategies when you feel yourself losing control of a situation

3) Social Awareness: the ability to empathize with others and show compassion towards them. The ability to show concern for others. Recognize how their actions affect other people. 

4) Relationship Skills: The ability to establish and maintain healthy supportive relationships with others. getting along with others, working in teams, and dealing effectively with conflict. Relations ship skills also help develop communication 

5) Responsible Decision Making: How to make choices and the consequences of making those choices.

1. Self-Awareness - ability to identify emotions.
2. Self-Management - using coping skills to manage behaviors and understand reactions.
3. Social Awareness - ability to show empathy of others
4. Relationship Skills - getting along with others, working in teams, and dealing with conflict in addition to communication, negotiation, building relationships, and refusal
5. Responsible Decision Making - thinking about making choices and consequences

My takeaways:
1. Self awarness~ teach students to identify themselves/think about their culture/ and who they really are in and out of the classroom.

2. Self Management ~ Teach students coping skills on how to manage and handle their emotions.  This is where I use a lot of my mindfulness strategies.

3. Social Awarness~ Teach students that their feelings/ values and thoughts can play into how those feelings affect others. 

4. Relationship Skills ~ Teach students to use honestly/ integrity when building relationships with others.

5. Responsible Decision Making ~ Teaching students how to make the best decisions, good choices, and know how to talk it out with others. 

     There are five social-emotional competencies.  They are Self-Awareness, Self Management, Social Awareness, Relationship Skills, and Responsible Decision Making.
     Self-awareness is about learning to be in touch with your own emotions. Making sure that you understand the range and types of emotions and the vocabulary that goes along with each range. Self-Awareness is also understanding how you deal with emotions and knowing your own strengths and limitations.
     Self Management is learning to regulate and control our emotions. It is understanding where we are in our own emotional management and learning to make positive actions to change.  With younger students, it is helpful to use the words stop, think, and act to teach them how to begin to think about their own emotions. Questioning how one copes when things don't go the way we want is beginning to understand how they manage their own emotions. 
     Social awareness is the capacity to show empathy toward others. Thinking about how others are feeling even if they are different than we are or if we have never been in their situation is an invaluable human skill. Understanding the perspective of others can decrease conflict when people begin to understand each other. 
Relationship skills are how we get along with others. This competency has implications across many areas including playing team sports, working in a group, and in life in general.  Learning how to disagree constructively is a life skill. 
     The last component is Responsible decision making and can be defined as making positive choices, thinking of the consequences. This uses a lot of other skills. Looking at how our choices affect others.  Was the effect positive or negative?  Why did I make a decision or choice?  If my decision was negative how can I repair or fix the damage?  All of these components are important to teach students so they can learn to grow up and become successful adults. 

1.  Self Awareness-the ability to understand their own emotions.2.  Self Management- when the child recognizes their emotions they find and learn strategies to self regulate.3.  Social Awareness--show understanding and empathy for others.4.  Relationship Skills--working with others, creating friendships, and working well together in groups.5.  Responsible decision making-- how to take the time and make the right choices and think about the consequences that affect those overall decisions.

1. Self-awareness - aware of feelings/emotions
2. Self-management - how to manage those feelings
3. Social-awareness - how actions affect others
4. Relationship skills - interaction with others
5. Responsible decision making - making good choices