SEL/CM Competencies

SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING (SEL)

Self-awareness

The ability to accurately recognize one's emotions and thoughts and their influence on behavior. This includes accurately assessing one's strengths and limitations and possessing a well-grounded sense of confidence and optimism.  

Self-management

The ability to regulate one's emotions, thoughts, and behaviors effectively in different situations. This includes managing stress, controlling impulses, motivating oneself, and setting and working toward achieving personal and academic goals.  

Social awareness

The ability to take the perspective of and empathize with others from diverse backgrounds and cultures, to understand social and ethical norms for behavior, and to recognize family, school, and community resources and supports.  

Relationship skills

The ability to establish and maintain healthy and rewarding relationships with diverse individuals and groups. This includes communicating clearly, listening actively, cooperating, resisting inappropriate social pressure, negotiating conflict constructively, and seeking and offering help when needed.  

Responsible decision making

The ability to make constructive and respectful choices about personal behavior and social interactions based on consideration of ethical standards, safety concerns, social norms, the realistic evaluation of consequences of various actions, and the well-being of self and others.  

Content adapted from the CASEL model of SEL.

CONFLICT MANAGEMENT

Through Conflict Management Students:

Set the stage

Learn to work with others to find a solution peacefully, and establish ground rules (e.g., no name-calling, blaming, yelling, or interrupting).  

Gather perspectives

Learn to describe the dispute from his or her perspective, without interruption, pay close attention and then ask clarifying questions in a nonthreatening manner.  

Find common interests

Learn to establish which facts and issues all participants agree on and determine why different issues are important to each person. Identify common interests.  

Create options

Learn to brainstorm about possible solutions to the problem.  

Evaluate options

Each student will learn to discuss his or her feelings about each of the proposed solutions.  

Create an agreement

Learn to explicitly state an agreement.  

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