Social-Emotional Learning
CASEL & Daniel Goleman
Emotional Intelligence & SEL
Focus
Naming, understanding, and managing feelings is a teachable skill — and it predicts life outcomes.
Key concepts
- Emotion vocabulary
- Self-regulation
- CASEL's five competencies
In the classroom
“You're stomping — I wonder if you're angry that the tower fell.” The teacher lends words until the child owns them.
See it in practice
Every Edfable simulation connected to this theory — and why it applies.
Group calm is a skill you teach — emotion words and cool-down rituals belong in the daily schedule.
The composite: a crying child, a block argument, and a drifting group — all at once. Triage with intention.
A child mid-meltdown can't use logic — co-regulate first, lend emotion words, problem-solve later.
A recurring biting incident. Move from reaction to a function-based, teaching plan.