Assessing SEL Online
Online and Blended Learning, Assessment Strategies, Social/Emotional Learning | Pre-K-12



Measuring social-emotional learning skills is challenging even in a typical classroom setting. But how can you gauge students' emotional state when you're not in the same room with them every day? How do you know if they're developing necessary social skills when they're not face to face with their peers?
In this course, you'll take a deep dive into different ways to assess SEL in the online space. You'll explore the pros and cons of each method, and how to integrate your chosen method seamlessly into the online classroom. In addition, you'll review the components of SEL and why it's critical to assess these skills as part of students' educational journey.
With the tools and knowledge from this course, you'll be prepared to integrate a SEL assessment strategy into your online classroom to promote your students' long-term growth and success.
Connections to Practice
This course provides the following classroom connections:
- Use the social-emotional learning posters to teach social-emotional learning explicitly to students or refer to them as social-emotional learning is infused into other content areas
- At-Home SEL instruction infographic will assist all members of the students' learning environments to be aware of the social-emotional learning that they are doing, setting the students up for success, and providing common language between home and the online classroom
Course Objectives
In this course, participants will:
- Recognize the components of SEL and be able to communicate this to others.
- Communicate why it is important to assess SEL.
- Compare and contrast the different methods of assessing SEL in an online classroom.
- Create a plan for implementing SEL assessment into their online classroom.
- Initiate the first steps in using SEL assessment and support in their online classroom.
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