The Development of Teachers' and Their Students' Social and Emotional Learning During the "Learning to Be Project"-Training Course in Five European Countries



Berg, Minna, Talvio, Markus, Hietajarvi, Lauri, Benitez, Isabel, Cavioni, Valeria, Conte, Elisabetta, Cuadrado, Francisco, Ferreira, Marco ORCID: 0000-0002-5547-4188, Kosir, Matej, Martinsone, Baiba
et al (show 5 more authors) (2021) The Development of Teachers' and Their Students' Social and Emotional Learning During the "Learning to Be Project"-Training Course in Five European Countries. FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY, 12. 705336-.

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Abstract

In recent years, the school curricula in many European countries have introduced social and emotional learning (SEL). This calls for the teachers to have SEL competencies. The present study evaluates teachers' and their students' readiness for SEL during an intervention in five European countries. The participants were teachers (<i>n</i> = 402) in five European countries; Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovenia, and Spain. The pre- and post-measuring points for both the intervention and the comparison group were at approximately the same time before and after the intervention. Comparison data consisted of 159 teachers in the same countries. The training for the intervention group lasted 16 h for the teachers and a maximum of 16 h for the principles and headmasters. An additional 9 h of further monitoring took place. There were two student groups participating in the study: the age group of 8-11 years (pre puberty) and the age group of 12-15-years (adolescents). Students, whose teachers had participated in the intervention, formed the intervention group (<i>n</i> = 2,552). Those students, whose teachers did not participate in the intervention, formed the comparison group (<i>n</i> = 1,730). The questionnaire data were collected at the beginning and at the end of the school year for both age groups. The results indicated that there was a favorable development in the intervention group in some of the measured skills among students, but the effects were different for the two age groups. This study adds to both theoretical and practical development of continuing teacher training about SEL and its possible role in reducing problem behavior among the students.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: social and emotional learning, teacher training and development, social interaction skills, well-being, assessment, intervention
Divisions: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Histories, Languages and Cultures
Depositing User: Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited: 21 Jan 2022 17:13
Last Modified: 18 Jan 2023 21:15
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.705336
Open Access URL: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg...
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URI: https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3147375