Introduction
What are the social and emotional skills and aspects of learning that SEAL is trying to develop?
Social and emotional skills are the skills of making positive relationships with other people, of understanding and managing ourselves and our own emotions, thoughts, and behaviours, and understanding and responding to the emotions and behaviour of others, in ways that are in the best long-term interest of ourselves and others.
There are many possible categorisations for social and emotional skills. Primary and secondary SEAL uses a five-fold categorisation, first developed by Goleman (1996), which is shown in the figure to the left.
These five aspects have been 'unpacked' into a wide range of universal learning outcomes and to more specific ones which are appropriate for particular age groups and particular learning opportunities used in the curriculum materials.
1.3.1 Reading