The document discusses how social emotional learning skills are important for and complementary to achieving Common Core standards. It outlines skills like goal-setting, metacognition, critical thinking, and creativity that are emphasized by the Common Core. It then provides strategies for teaching these skills, including using trash can basketball to teach metacognition and various methods for developing student agency. The document argues that social emotional learning skills enable lifelong learning and that these skills can be taught through goal-setting, feedback, self-talk and other strategies.

1. Social Emotional Learning & Common
Core
Better Together!
Larry Ferlazzo
PowerPoint posted at http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/

2. One Day…
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3. Farmers and gardeners know you cannot make a plant
grow...What you do is provide the conditions for growth.
- Sir Ken Robinson
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4. “…members agreed that [academic]
knowledge and skills are not achieved in
a vacuum but require the development of
underlying dispositions or behavioral
capacities (such as self-regulation,
persistence, adaptability) that enable
lifelong pursuit of learning.”
- The Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO)
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5. CCSSO emphasizes the "skills" of:
*Goal-setting
*Metacognition
*Critical thinking
*Creativity/innovation
And the "dispositions" of:
*Agency
*Self-control
*Persistence/Resilience
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6. Goal-Setting
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7. Metacognition
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8. Using Trash Can Basketball To
Teach Metacognitive Strategies
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9. More Metacognitive Strategies
• Setting goals
• Learning Journal
• Connect what I am learning to things I already know,
perhaps through using a K-W-L chart
• Ask classmates for help
• Remember what has helped me in the past
• After I'm done, double-check my work
• Use Google Translate or a dictionary
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10. Critical Thinking
• Inductive teaching & learning
• Paolo Freire – Critical Pedagogy
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11. Creativity
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12. Constraints Principle
• limiting words (story told in seven words or found
poems)
• limiting time (one minute to summarize lesson to
partner)
• limiting materials (small groups are given six
pieces of tape, six paper clips, and six pieces of
paper to build the tallest tower)
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13. Random Principle
• Putting two or more things together that do not
belong together and finding connections
between them.
• For example, providing two words and having
students use them to create similes or
metaphors
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14. Agency
• Agency is the ability to be pro-active in
determining one's life path and not just react to the
surrounding circumstances
• Agency also recognizes that outside factors
provide some limitations, and that people have
some ability to influence and determine one's
response to them.
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15. Ways To Help Develop Agency
• Goal-setting and metacognitive reflection
• Providing encouragement and feedback
• Self-Talk
• Contributing to others
• Students teaching others
• Providing students choice
• Enhanced discovery learning
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16. Growth Mindset/Grit
• Teaches that students are in control of their own
learning.
• Growth Mindset teaches “the fuller formula for
success: effort + strategies + help from others.”
- David Yeager, Gregory Walton and Geoffrey L. Cohen
* Grit is "doing something even when you don't feel like
doing it because it will help you achieve the big
goals you want most."
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17. Social Emotional Learning…
Is Not Is
*A Panacea *A Series of Tools &
Strategies
*Let Them Eat
Character
Strategy
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