Description
Nurturing Students' Character is an easy-to-use guide to incorporating social-emotional and character development (SECD) into your teaching practice. The links are clear--elementary and middle school students have better odds of academic success if you nurture their social and emotional skills. Drawing on broad field experience and the latest research, this book offers intuitive techniques for infusing your everyday teaching and classroom management with SECD opportunities. With topics ranging from self-regulation and problem solving to peer communication and empathy, these concrete strategies, practical worksheets, and self-reflective activities will help you foster a positive classroom culture.
Author: Jeffrey S. Kress, Maurice J. Elias
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 12/02/2019
Pages: 182
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.50d
ISBN13: 9780367190194
ISBN10: 0367190192
BISAC Categories:
- Education | Student Life & Student Affairs
- Education | Classroom Management
- Education | Educational Psychology
About the Author
Jeffrey S. Kress, PhD, is Dr. Bernard Heller Professor of Jewish Education at the William Davidson Graduate School of Jewish Education, Jewish Theological Seminary, USA.
Maurice J. Elias, PhD, is Professor of Psychology, Director of the Social-Emotional and Character Development Lab, and Co-Director of the Academy for Social-Emotional Learning in Schools at Rutgers University, USA. He also is a founding member of SEL4US, a national alliance of state social-emotional learning advocacy and implementation support organizations.
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