Can You Teach Emotional Intelligence?

by Katherine Gustafson, Yes! Magazine

posted Jul 22, 2010

 

According to the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL), a group that advocates the widespread adoption of Social, and Emotional Learning (SEL) instruction, students exposed to SEL see their scores on standardized achievement test scores rise by an average of 11 percentile points, compared to students who are not exposed. SEL-trained students also exhibit improvements in class behavior and a decrease in anxiety, depression, and other forms of emotional distress.