How music supports teaching social and emotional learning skills
Learn how the power of music can support teaching social emotional skills. Explore social emotional learning (SEL) music activities.
10 Tips to help students reduce stress in the classroom
Learn how to reduce student stress in the classroom. These social and emotional learning tips and lessons can help reduce stress in students.
Teaching responsibility and decision making skills: Activities for students
Teaching responsibility and decision making skills to students is key to their overall growth. Explore engaging activities and video lessons.
How to build student connections using music to teach in the classroom
Hip-hop, a cultural movement started by Black and Latinx youth in New York in the early ’70s, is a great launching point for using music to teach. When used as a part of instruction, hip-hop can help to engage students, bring curriculum to life, and reinforce core knowledge and skills, including vocabulary support and reading comprehension. How can music be used in education? Hip-hop pedagogy, essentially applying hip-hop elements to teaching methods, gives students a chance to share their knowledge with other classmates and analyze experiences of their own as well as others’ in a meaningful way. It can act…
What the Research Shows: Social & Emotional Learning and Student Achievement
Breaking news: The education space is constantly shifting. (Kidding, we know you don’t need us to tell you that.) Whether it’s ed tech, policy, or financing, Flocabulary strives to keep on top of issues and trends that matter to educators. We’ve kept a close pulse on social and emotional learning (SEL) over the past few years, and what we’ve learned is teaching students skills beyond what they can derive from a textbook is key to a student’s success in school and in life. Educators must now prepare students for careers in a soft skills economy with rapidly changing technology, likely…