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

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Berg , M , Talvio , M , Hietajärvi , L , Benitez , I , Cavioni , V , Conte , E , Cuadrado , F , Ferreira , M , Kosir , M , Martinsone , B , Ornaghi , V , Raudiene , I , Sukyte , D , Talic , S & Lonka , K 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 , vol. 12 , 705336 . https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.705336

Title: The Development of Teachers' and Their Students' Social and Emotional Learning During the "Learning to Be Project"-Training Course in Five European Countries
Author: Berg, Minna; Talvio, Markus; Hietajärvi, Lauri; Benitez, Isabel; Cavioni, Valeria; Conte, Elisabetta; Cuadrado, Francisco; Ferreira, Marco; Kosir, Matej; Martinsone, Baiba; Ornaghi, Veronica; Raudiene, Irena; Sukyte, Daiva; Talic, Sanela; Lonka, Kirsti
Contributor organization: Research Group for Educational Psychology
Faculty of Educational Sciences
Faculty Common Matters (Faculty of Education)
Department of Education
Minds Hub
Mind and Matter
Teachers' Academy
Date: 2021-08-13
Language: eng
Number of pages: 17
Belongs to series: Frontiers in Psychology
ISSN: 1664-1078
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.705336
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10138/335510
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 (n = 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 (n = 2,552). Those students, whose teachers did not participate in the intervention, formed the comparison group (n = 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.
Subject: social and emotional learning
teacher training and development
social interaction skills
well-being
assessment
intervention
LIONS-QUEST-PROGRAM
PROBLEM BEHAVIOR
ACADEMIC-ACHIEVEMENT
YOUTH DEVELOPMENT
SCHOOL CLIMATE
REDUCING RISK
METAANALYSIS
IMPACT
SKILLS
IMPLEMENTATION
516 Educational sciences
Peer reviewed: Yes
Rights: cc_by
Usage restriction: openAccess
Self-archived version: publishedVersion
Funder: Suomen Akatemia Projektilaskutus
Grant number: 327242


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