SEL Begins With the Teacher
SEL skills are also essential for student self-motivation. Although there was some resistance from students to do their schoolwork before the pandemic, COVID exposed more of that resistance. It stripped away the extrinsic factors that were in place in school systems, leaving students to motivate themselves. Teachers hadn’t taught executive function skills, however, and students were accustomed to being told what to do and how to do it. Students didn’t know how to manage time,
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